England Lions are poised to call up Jonathan Trott

England skipper Alastair Cook slammed David Warner as disrespectful in a sour aftermath to a simmering Ashes opener won by Australia with a day to spare at the Gabba on Sunday.

Australian skipper Michael Clarke insists there is no animosity with England despite the final day of the first Test turning nasty with tailender James Anderson warned to expect a broken arm.

The home team's huge 381-run victory on Sunday was tarnished by constant sledging as frustrations boiled over, culminating in Clarke being caught by a stump microphone telling Anderson to "get ready for a broken fucking arm".

England coach Andy Flower made it clear Trott's mindset was not affected by Warner, who accused the batsman of being "weak" after struggling with Mitchell Johnson's pace in the first Test.
Flower said Trott has been struggling for the past few weeks, although news of his stress-related illness drew sympathy from Warner's older brother Steve.

LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The sight of the normally obdurate Jonathan Trott swishing and missing with alarming regularity during his two brief innings in Australia was a telltale sign that all was not right.


England's number three, so often the rock of his side's batting order since making his test debut in 2009, managed just 19 panicky runs in the 381-run humiliation that ended on Sunday and was clearly unsettled by the fired-up Australian pace attack.

Shaken by the ferocity of Mitchell Johnson's short-pitched bowling in particular, Trott crumbled and, to rub salt into the wound, his second-innings dismissal was labelled as "weak" by Australian opener David Warner

Trott's performance was also criticised by former England players now working as television or radio pundits but after the announcement that he was leaving the Ashes squad on Monday with a stress-related illness there was widespread support for his predicament.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan went on Twitter to apologise.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Hotheaded Australia batsman David Warner concedes he overstepped the mark in sledging England, and Jonathan Trott in particular, during the first Ashes test but made it clear his comments were strategic and intended to rattle the tourists.

Warner, who scored 49 and 124 in Australia's 381-run victory in Brisbane, described Trott's dismissal as "pretty poor and weak". England's number three batsman was caught for nine after struggling with Mitchell Johnson's short-pitched bowling.

The comments, made at a media conference on Saturday after stumps on day three, were condemned by England captain Alastair Cook as "disrespectful".

"I made those comments for a reason," he told reporters at Brisbane airport on Monday.

"Look, yesterday, the bounce and pace got to them again.

"It is Ashes cricket. Probably went a little bit too far with the comments, but it's cricket and now it's in the back of their mind."

Warner may yet face sanctioning by the ICC for his public comments about Trott.

Beaten 3-0 in the first Ashes series earlier this year, a fired-up Australian attack harried England's batsmen with a barrage of bouncers throughout the Gabba test and often followed up the short-pitched assaults with a few choice words.

Tempers threatened to boil over on Sunday as Australia approached victory on day four, with umpires moving to step in and separate players sniping at each other.

Prominent cricket broadcaster David Lloyd, who played nine tests for England as an all-rounder, singled out 27-year-old Warner for going overboard with his on-field chatter.

"I'm a big lad who has heard a few things in my time but David Warner in particular came out with some really nasty, horrible stuff," Lloyd wrote in the Daily Mail about comments picked up by broadcaster Sky's stump microphone.

Lefthander Warner has strayed into controversy a number of times this year, most notably when he punched England batsman Joe Root at a Birmingham bar in the leadup to the Ashes in England and was stood down for the first two tests.

He was also fined by Cricket Australia for an expletive-strewn rant against prominent Australian cricket writers on Twitter earlier this year.