'IT'S NO WAY TO BOUNCE BACK'

ENGLAND'S divisive preparations for next week's day/night Ashes Test have received support from an unexpected source - former Australia seamer Peter Siddle.

- BY RORY DOLLARD

The tourists have passed up the chance to send any of their Test team to face a Prime Minister's XI in Canberra, spurning a chance to get used to the floodlit cricket and the pink Kookaburra ball. And while that has attracted plenty of criticism, the man who will be fronting up the home attack can see the logic.