If he is not fit , a suspect pitch would improve Trott 's chances , cloud cover would improve Sidebottom 's and neither of the above would represent Harmison 's best chance of one last crack at Australia before he , too , heads into the sunset . • Age Tests A J Strauss ( Middlesex , captain ) 32 64 A N Cook ( Essex ) 24 46 R S Bopara ( Essex ) 24 9 I R Bell ( Warwickshire ) 27 47 P D Collingwood ( Durham ) 33 51 M J Prior ( Sussex ) 27 21 A Flintoff ( Lancashire ) 31 77 S C J Broad ( Nottinghamshire ) 23 20 G P Swann ( Nottinghamshire ) 30 10 J M Anderson ( Lancashire ) 27 40 G Onions ( Durham ) 26 4 S J Harmison ( Durham ) 30 60 R J Sidebottom ( Nottinghamshire ) 31 21 I J L Trott ( Warwickshire ) 28 0 Australia will slip to fourth in the ICC Test Championship if England win the Ashes .