"Well, when you're bowling to two of the top three batsmen in the world, they're not going to make mistakes. You've got to find a way to get them out and change things up." Ponting told cricket.com.au on Saturday. England tried to unsettle the Australian top order with either back-of-a-length or extremely short deliveries, which was counter-productive as opener David Warner (95), Marnus Labuschagne (103), stand-in skipper Steve Smith (93) and Alex Carey (51) played the balls on merit to take the hosts to a strong position.

Ponting felt that England should have bowled full in a bid to swing the pink Kookaburra, adding that he wasn't sure whether skipper Root was instructing them to bowl short or the two bowling stalwarts - Anderson and Broad - were simply stubborn. "It can also be stubbornness from the bowlers and the unwillingness to change - that's what it looked like from Broad and Anderson with the new ball yesterday," said Ponting.

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"It was like, 'No we'll run in and bowl back-of-a-length, bowl tight, not give them any runs and we'll strike and before you know it they'll be three or four down with the scoreboard not going anywhere'. Well. it didn't happen and it doesn't happen very often against good players," added Ponting.

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