A Second Class stamp flagyl burning eyes zippy Bairstow is batting without conviction. This series has lurched about a bit, with only the tense finish at Trent Bridge entering the book of classic Ashes melodramas. It will disappoint, too, if the battle for the urn itself (the raison d’etre, after all), ends in the rain, with two Tests left. So the neutral hopes for a fifth-day reprieve: a Monday of demonic Australian bowling and English stoicism.