After close of play, Trott admitted that things "can't get any worse" for England, adding: "We've got a big three days ahead of us" - a sentiment Sky Sports pundit Bob Willis whole-heartedly agrees with.
"It is going to be very, very tough for England to get wickets. The second new ball is a long way away and the first one didn't do that much," the former England paceman reflected.
"The strange thing about this pitch is that there's quite a lot of grass on it, but it's brown, it's dead grass and the ball is not gripping and seaming at all.
"Jimmy Anderson got a couple of balls to swing past the outside edge of Fulton's bat but there was really nothing in it. There was very little pace at all and the likes of Steven Finn really had to bend their back to get the ball up above the batsman's waist.
"So it is going to be hard work and at this point you'd say England might be facing a deficit of up to 200.
"But they've been there before. We saw the second innings in Brisbane when Strauss, Trott and Cook amassed 500 runs.
"But the fact of the matter is that England should have scored 500 in this innings because there might have been an excuse to get bowled out so cheaply yesterday, having been put in to bat, but conditions were pretty unpleasant for bowling and just about perfect for batting.
"England weren't up to it - it's as simple as that."
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