Bopara Bounced Out, Trott To Come In

England's selectors appear keen on minimal change for the must-win fifth Ashes Test against Australia at the Brit Oval.

Despite calls for batting reinforcements from numerous voices in the game, the four-man panel are understood to be ready to put their trust in the men who went to Headingley 1-0 up in the Ashes when they reveal their squad on Sunday morning.

National selector Geoff Miller has preached a consistency of selection policy since taking on the top job, while coach Andy Flower's most impressive quality is calmness under pressure.

Flower was insistent on letting the dust settle following the innings humiliation in Leeds, which levelled things, before making any decisions on team make-up for the series decider.

Ian Bell and the uncapped Jonathan Trott, both of whom came into the Ashes reckoning due to injuries to others, scored opportune county championship hundreds for Warwickshire in front of the selectors and captain Andrew Strauss this week.

That will only have served to strengthen the belief that the Ashes strategy employed to date has been implemented with the best possible personnel.

Asked in the immediate aftermath of defeat whether the same team could claim a comeback win at the Oval, Flower was adamant - despite his natural anger at the display he had just witnessed.

"In this game they couldn't stop the slide, but we have been in adversity a lot prior to this game and fought back," he said.

"We can come back from this. We have to come back from it. That is the only option available to us. We are not 4-0 down - it is 1-1. We intend to go to the Oval and play good cricket."

Veteran Mark Ramprakash was tipped for a return by some, and Ravi Bopara is likely to be sacrificed. But continuity of selection would not allow for a man who is 40 in three weeks to be picked ahead of younger men in form.

England arguably showed their hand on Saturday when Trott was pulled out of England Lions' two-day match against Australia at Canterbury.

Trott was originally named in the XI but replaced by Yorkshire opener Joe Sayers on Saturday morning.

Playing Trott, 28, would have given the Australians a chance to assess his strengths and weaknesses at first hand.

Trott, included in the party for the penultimate Test as cover for Andrew Flintoff but released when England opted for the attacking route of fielding a five-man attack, has two international caps to his name - the back-to-back Twenty20 matches against West Indies at the Oval two years ago.

However, it is his first-class form this summer of four hundreds in 1046 runs at an average of 80 which has put him in the equation for one spare place.

When England folded for a pathetic 51 against West Indies in Jamaica earlier this year, the management duo of Flower and Strauss resisted any temptation to bring out the broom - and Bell was the only casualty of the top six.

A similar scenario is anticipated this time, with number three the focal point once more following Essex batsman Bopara's sequence of 105 runs in seven Ashes innings.

The response to the defeat at Sabina Park, also by an innings, was resounding - with three first-innings scores in excess of 546 completing the series in the Caribbean, and England's lowest first-innings effort of the next eight matches 376.

"This has a similar feel to the Jamaica game, so we have to come back strongly, the way we did then," Flower reflected.

"We talked about it and resolved to be better in various areas."

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