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Poor foundation ... Chris Rogers is frustrated Australia's poor starts with the bat. Source: Ryan Pierse / Getty Images
IT says much about the worrying state of Australian cricket that a 35-year-old averaging just 18 is a certainty to play at Old Trafford this week.
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Chris Rogers and Shane Watson, who is averaging 27 for the series, have been the most stable part of a constantly failing batting line-up which looks set to change again when the third Test begins on Thursday.
The most frustrating part of this opening odd-couple is that they have actually looked okay.
Australia's opening partnerships of 19, 84, 42 and 24 compare favourably against England's 27, 11, 18 and 22.
Indeed England was 3-28 and 3-30 in the second Test at Lord's and yet still won by a massive 347 runs despite these poor starts.
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Not surprisingly, Rogers is "very frustrated" by Australia failing to capitalise on some reasonable starts.
"I think there's been times where we've felt like we're putting a little bit of pressure back on them and setting the side up and then lost a wicket, " he said.
"Watto's got out and I've got out shortly after so that's been disappointing and it's important that we're better. It's important for the side that we're doing a good job at the top."
Rogers has managed to successfully negotiate every opening spell from England's quality fast bowler Jimmy Anderson and then fall with increasingly strange dismissals after his early hard work.
In the first innings at Lord's Rogers lasted more than an hour scoring 15 then missed a hip high full toss from spinner Graeme Swann which should have been dispatched to the boundary but instead trapped the left hander leg before wicket.
"Yeah it kind of went up and over the sight screen and I just lost it to be honest," a sheepish Rogers admitted on Tuesday.
"I kind of got surprised, thought it was a free hit, and unfortunately it hit me rather embarrassingly but I guess I just lost it and I don't really know what else to say there.
"It was hard to know where the ball was going because there was no normal reference points and in hindsight it would have been nice to challenge the lbw."
Having just seen Watson waste a review just a few minutes earlier, Rogers trudged off only to find that replays shows the ball going down the leg side, another shambolic episode of Australia failing to manage its referrals properly.
Each team is allowed two wrong referrals an innings under the umpire decision review system (DRS) and Australia has been on the wrong end of a few.
Rogers challenged a leg before wicket decision given against him in the first Test when a delivery from Anderson from around the wicket appeared to be sliding down the leg side, raising doubts in the players' minds about what they should challenge.
"I think that DRS has changed a lot of people's understanding of what's going on," Rogers said.
"As a cricketer I've made a pretty poor umpire so far. This is the first time I've been involved with it. It's a bit of a learning process, and you have to learn quickly."
Most of all he needs to make some runs.
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