Glenn McGrath will find out in the next 48 hours whether his Ashes series is over, as he awaits news on the ankle injury he sustained on the morning of the second Test at Edgbaston.

McGrath, 35, stepped on a cricket ball during a pre-match warm-up and suffered a grade two tear of his lateral ligament. After recording figures of 9 for 82 in the first Test, it was a major blow to Australia's fortunes, and to McGrath's own.

McGrath has now dispensed with the crutches on which he arrived at

the ground on Friday morning, and has been spending time in the swimming pool in a bid to regain his mobil-