Anderson hopes to win Ashes 5-0
Says want to win the series 5-0, so we will be doing everything we can in each game to win.
MANCHESTER (AFP) - England spearhead James Anderson said on Tuesday that the side were focused solely on the job in the hand ahead of the third Ashes Test against Australia and not a 5-0 whitewash.
Ashes-holders England have put themselves in pole position to retain the urn by going 2-0 up in the five-match series with victories at Trent Bridge and Lord s ahead of this week s clash at Lancashire paceman Anderson s Old Trafford home ground.
Only last week Anderson, who turned 31 on Tuesday, said: "We want to win the series 5-0, so we will be doing everything we can in each game to win."
But in his latest remarks, he indicated the best way of achieving a 5-0 sweep -- something England have never managed against arch-rivals Australia -- was to concentrate on one Test at a time.
When the third Test starts on Thursday it will be the first time Old Trafford -- which shares its name with the nearby Manchester United football ground -- has staged an Ashes match since 2005 when Australia s last-wicket pair of Brett Lee and Glenn McGrath batted out the final four overs of a thrilling draw.
Since 2005, Old Trafford has undergone a 44 million ($67 million) redevelopment which has seen the pavilion modernised, a conference centre built and, perhaps the most striking change of all, the square turned so that pitches now face north-south rather than east-west axis.
However, for all the changes the surface at Old Trafford -- where England off-spinner Jim Laker took a record 19 wickets for 90 runs in the 1956 Ashes Test -- remains helpful to slow bowlers.
Monty Panesar has been added to England s squad as a second spinner but Anderson was understandably keen the pitch should have something in it for himself and the rest of the hosts faster bowlers.
Meanwhile Anderson said he had no specific information on Kevin Pietersen s fitness after the batsman suffered a calf injury at Lord s.
England have added the in-form James Taylor to their squad as cover for Pietersen.
Pietersen did bat in the nets on Tuesday and, with his left calf strapped up, joined his team-mates in a warm-up before going through his own training routine under the guidance of England s physiotherapist.
England are unlikely to say for definite if Pietersen is playing until they announce their team on Thursday.
