Robert Craddock: Ashes could be over inside 11 days, England should drop Swann for Perth Graeme Swann looks dejected after being belted on day two. Photo: Quinn Rooney Source: Getty Images WILL this be another 11-day Ashes series? When Australia wrapped up the 2002-03 Ashes series in just 11 playing days historians decreed it a record for the swiftest Ashes hatchet job in a five Test series and many observers felt we would never see anything like it again. It seemed like a freakish alignment of planets that saw a generation of exceptional Australian players peaking together. A couple of Australian players even swapped lines like "it would be nice to have a contest." If Australia wraps up the second Test today then completes a three day victory in always-spicy Perth the unrepeatable series will be repeated and the 11-day record will be matched. It probably won't happen but even victory in 12 or 13 days is remarkable for a side which just lost 3-0 to the same team. OFF-SPINNER Graeme Swann should become the first big name selection casualty of the Ashes tour. No matter what the result of this Test it is apparant England urgently need high class fast bowling reinforcements. Tim Bresnan is being wound up for the Perth Test and, with Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson and impressive newcomer Ben Stokes, could feature in a four pronged pace battery in a side which could also include Gary Ballance as the new batsman. The one certainty is that a spinner will not get England back in the series in Perth. Monty Panesar is likely to give way for Bresnan and Swann who has taken four wickets at just under 100 for the series, also shapes as a casualty. Graeme Swann has had a tough Ashes series. FORMER English great Geoffrey Boycott may hail from the same county (Yorkshire) as emerging batsman Joe Root but that doesn't mean he goes soft on him in commentary. When Root recklessly arrowed a slog sweep shot off Nathan Lyon to David Warner near the square leg boundary Boycott recoiled in horror in the BBC commentary box. "I've seen more brains in a chocolate mouse," Boycott said. KEVIN Pietersen had not even reached the dressing room door after his reckless dismissal yesterday when discussion started over whether he still has the killer within. Jonathan Trott got roasted alive for his limp scooped pull shot in Brisbane but Pietersen's daft flick into the leg side trap set for that shot was not much better. He even had to move towards the offside to play the shot which was a bit like deciding to swimming in a school of sharks in your pilchard-colored wetsuit. Pietersen has won four Ashes series and the Gabba was his 100th Test. Former England captain Michael Vaughan asked whether there was anything left in Test cricket that is stimulating him and felt it may be time for the England coaching staff to sit down and talk to him about where his mind should be. Mitchell Johnson is the new pin-up boy of the Adelaide groundstaff. If the controversial drop-in deck had yielded a giant English score to follow Australia 9-570 it would have been criticised as being too flat. But Johnson's rampaging 7-40 changed everything. The Test might even finish a day early and buoyant locals were last night quipping "you don't think we put too much juice in the wicket do you?" Cricket must find a better way of dealing with the ridiculous stoppages to check whether a wicket-taking delivery is a no-ball. In these days of super technology its not good enough to have to repeatedly call for batsmen to stand their ground while the tape is checked for a no-ball. It completely ruins the celebration, the momentum and the theatre of the moment. What about a beeper that goes off inside the umpire's earpiece when a bowler transgresses? Former England allrounder turned cage fighter Adam Hollioake had a tough choice to make on Saturday. Gold Coast based Hollioake had the choice of going to the UFC fight program in Brisbane or stay at home and watch the Ashes. He went to the fights and hopefully didn't bother taping the cricket.