London: Outside the famous Hobbs gate of The Oval cricket ground, there was a three minute silent protest an hour before start of play in the fifth and final Ashes Test, organised by the makers of the cricket documentary 'Death of a Gentleman'. They were campaigning to 'Change Cricket', to put pressure on the cricket administrators around the world, but especially the ones from India, England and Australia. They might as well be running the campaign for the current lot of Australian cricketers here on tour to change their cricket — so abysmal was their performance in Edgbaston and Nottingham.


Michael Clarke walks back after being out for 15 yesterday. Pic/Getty Images 

It looked as if the Australian batsmen had heard the cries for change. After being inserted in, David Warner and Chris Rogers demonstrated the discipline that was conspicuous in its absence in the previous two Tests. For the first five deliveries that Rogers faced from Stuart Broad, the wrecker-in-chief at Trent Bridge, he shouldered arms. It was a sign of things to come.