All-rounder Cameron White was named man of the series for his assured performances batting up the order while Ponting was rested for the first three matches.
Durham's suspect batting stood up to the test in their second innings with Gough playing particularly well in an opening stand with Pratt.
Tendulkar's fitness is a major boost for India as they consider their batting line-up.
They have some inexperience in their batting line-up and they still have to get the runs.
He also believes England need to be more flexible in their batting line-up.
Petersen is currently the captain of the Highveld Lions and prominent in the team's regular batting line-up.
England may add Ian Bell to a batting line-up that has not been completely fluent of late.
Nothing could seemingly go wrong with this indisputably talented team with the best batting line-up in the world.
Flakes continued to fall throughout the night after tapering off from the snow-globe-like flurries that brightened up batting practice.
Its star-studded batting line-up managed a mere 992 runs in four innings compared with England's more than 1, 500 runs.
The batting line-up, meanwhile, has been given a significant boost by the return of the two Taylors - Claire and Sarah.
But England's decision to bowl first on a green-tinged track meant the spotlight fell first on the home side's rejigged batting line-up.
After losing the toss in Adelaide, the tourists ripped through the Australia batting line-up with Makhaya Ntini (3-52) and Dale Steyn (3-49) on song.
Brett Lee made early inroads into the Kenyan batting line-up with the wicket of Maurice Ouma, who was caught behind off a textbook away-swinger.
Nottinghamshire started the game with a batting line-up weakened by the departure of overseas batsman Hashim Amla who has joined South Africa's tour of the West Indies.
Questions remained about how good a target England had set, given India's powerhouse batting line-up, but they were largely answered in the opening 12 overs.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan return to bolster the batting line-up.
But after he was out top-edging a reverse sweep off Patel to Ambrose, the rest of the batting line-up struggled to provide Powell with sufficient support.
His chances appear remote, however, with India currently enjoying a run of excellent form and possessing a batting line-up as good as any other in world cricket.
The Royals had to wait until the fifth over before they began to make in-roads into Glamorgan's batting line-up when lively paceman Kabir bowled Grant for 16.
The tourists had the better of the opening day as they bowled Australia out for 214 but their batting line-up was also found wanting on a seamer-friendly surface.
Coach Andy Flower has suggested changes could be made to England's batting line-up for The Oval following the abject, series-levelling defeat inside three days in the fourth Test.
England's spinners did much of the damage to the West Indies batting line-up, Graeme Swann taking 3-36 while man-of-the-match James Tredwell took 4-48, including the key wicket of Russell.
And Collingwood would clearly be keen for the former South Africa Test star to stay on for the forthcoming series against India, who have a far stronger batting line-up.
Despite a powerful performance from Matthew Hayden at the top of the order, the Australian batting line-up wilted as they lost their last six wickets for only 59 runs.
Mohammad Yousuf looks certain to return as Pakistan desperately seek some resilience to a batting line-up that has been blown away far too easily in the course of this series.
Off-spinner Croft, who has been out of the England side for 18 months, is recalled because of the likelihood that the West Indies will field six left-handers in their batting line-up.
Just as Shane Watson's surprise five-wicket haul had dismantled Pakistan's batting line-up in the first innings, the Aussies and their captain Ricky Ponting were indebted to another occasional bowler second time round.
"We have selected a balanced team - we have a quality bowling atack and a good batting line-up with players who have performed on the international stage, " said chairman of selectors Clyde Butts.
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