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ENGLAND'S Ashes preparation continues to be unsettled by injuries and the weather, with Kevin Pietersen needing to prove his fitness at training today.
If England's star performer cannot bat without discomfort in the nets this morning he will not be chosen for the last warm-up game, a four-day match against an invitation XI at the SCG starting tomorrow.
That would leave Pietersen with just 10 balls of match batting in the lead-up to the first Test at the Gabba, beginning on Thursday week.
He is not a certainty for the Test either after requiring a cortisone injection for a knee injury last Sunday in Melbourne.
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Wicket-keeper Matt Prior has already been ruled out of the tour match after scans revealed a low grade tear of his left calf suffered in last week's washed out match against Australia A in Hobart.
The England vice-captain has also spent limited time at the crease and will need to prove his fitness before playing in the Test.
Reserve wicket-keeper batsman Jonny Bairstow will replace Prior in this match,
Not only is England's side unsettled, the Cricket Australia invitation XI they will play has become a revolving door spinning off its axis.
West Australian Adam Voges will be ruled out today with a back injury, while spinner Steve O'Keefe has been called back into the NSW team to play the Sheffield Shield match against Queensland in Brisbane, beginning tomorrow.
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Earlier yesterday CA announced that Usman Khawaja had been released back to Queensland and Phil Hughes back to South Australia, in a swap for Callum Ferguson into the invitation XI.
NSW was going to lose exciting young batsman Nic Maddinson but he is also now in the Shield team.
Originally England was to play a NSW second XI but an angry England Cricket Board demanded greater competition so a gun batsman was summarily plucked from each state, turning the team into the CA capitulation XI.
Now half the original invitational players are unlikely to front.
And bad weather continues to follow England. After more than two days of the Australia A game were washed out, it has been pouring in Sydney since England arrived on Sunday.
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The tourists were forced to train indoors yesterday and the forecast is no better for today, but there is hope that the sun will return for the opening day of the match tomorrow.
England batsman Ian Bell described his team's injury situation as "not ideal."
"It's disappointing ... Matt is a key part of our success over the last few years and obviously we want him recovered as quick as possible.
"But there's still a bit of time. Matt has got himself in fantastic condition for this tour and he'll be very good with his rehab so we've got every faith that he'll be be fully fit for Brisbane."
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