Even as the Australian team is involved in a relaxed warm up for the fifth Test of the Ashes at the Oval, England should prefer Jonathan Trott to Ravi Bopara and even Mark Ramprakash and Robert Key. Here is how the selection on Sunday should go:
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Surrey's Mark Ramprakash and Kent's Robert Key were the names doing the rounds in the wake of large scale changes to the England team at the Brit Oval for the final Test of the Ashes.
However, not wanting to signal the panic button to the opposition, the England team has kept faith in the squad for the fourth Test and has instead dropped Ravi Bopara.
Shane Warne's off the fielding sledging against Bopara appears to have aided England in causing self doubts in a man they thought they had found an answer in. Now it appears Bopara is going back where he begun.
Instead Jonathan Trott is now likely to make his debut in the all-important deciding Test of the summer.
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