Let’s look at this from an English view.

A couple of weeks ago, you ask which Australians would make your Test team. Michael Clarke, definitely. Ryan Harris, most likely. The rest, no certainties.

Now, after seven days of this Ashes series, you’re asking a similar question, but in reverse.

Which Englishman, on form, would make Australia’s Test team? Ian Bell, definitely. Stuart Broad, most likely. The rest, no certainties.

The role reversal has been swift and England are beset by problems.

The most serious is batting collapses.

First Test, first innings, the tourists lost 6-9. Second dig, they lost 5-21.

In the second Test, first innings, England lost 6-24.

The captain, Alastair Cook, doesn’t appear to be the immovable rock he has been in the past.

The best first-drop, Jonathan Trott, has gone home with a stress-related illness.

The number four batsman, Kevin Pietersen, is literally caught in Australian traps.

He’s seemingly unable to let logic rule ego and curtail his leg-side shots – despite the presence of two short midwicket fielders, who have caught him twice in three knocks.

The number five, Bell, is the best bat but England don’t want to put him in the pressure-cooker of first-drop.

And they still don’t know who should bat at six with the jury out on the pair they have tried so far, Joe Root and Ben Stokes.

The wicketkeeper, Matt Prior, batting at seven, is a shadow his former self – scores of 0, 4 and 0 this series. He’s lasted 13 balls in total.

Another massive problem for the visitors is rampant Australian quick Mitchell Johnson, who is not just dismissing them, but scaring them too.

Then there’s the vexing Australian captain Michael Clarke issue: how do they get him out cheaply?

Which leads into another headache, England bowlers.

Apart from Broad, swingman Jimmy Anderson appears to have lost his ability to make the Kookaburra ball laugh.

Spinner Graeme Swann, has taken four wickets for 366 runs in Australia’s initial three innings.

But their efforts might not look so bad if England held their catches.

In Australia’s first innings in Adelaide, they turfed Clarke on 21 (he made 148), Brad Haddin on five (he made 118) and George Bailey on 10 (he made 53) – that’s a total cost of 293 runs.