Imagine spending your entire existence looking in peoples mouths only to be rewarded with a second chance in hell.SSDon't know about "gloating" or anything like that and do not know anything about trophies. England threw away any chance of regaining the Ashes with two batting performances which merit a special place in Hell reserved for lawyers, dentists and those who talk loudly in the theatre.
Who was in charge of said planning?
haha explains why i annoy you
Can only assume that was tongue in cheek?
Oh, ok, that would have nothing to do with match officials then.....
It’s supposed to be like for like
Right but like my point was that "they only had really ill-fitting balls to choose from" is not an excuse for the umpires given that they're supposed to be in charge of the entire process.
England got by far the best of the bowling conditions, and Anderson still failed to make an impact.
I don’t know whether they’re still able to take matters into their own hands and change the condition of the available options
After England, like annoying toddler has asked repeatedly for a ball change because they weren't happy with it.
Presumably, he's the first to hit a six and take a wicket with last balls faced and bowled. It reminded that Richard Hadlee took a wicket with his last ball in test cricket too and had given Broad advice a few years ago on changing his run-up to prolong his career.
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I mean the ball got changed because it crashed into the lip of a hard helmet and had a great big chunk taken out of it. I don't see how you can complain about that in itself. It is ironic that the one time the ball change worked for England also was the one time it didn't happen on their own request.
I feel like people are just saying this because the series is over and they want to be nice. Think England quite comfortably played the better cricket overall in the series and dominated more passages of play. They should be annoyed as **** they didn't win.
Next summer WI and Sri Lanka are touring. Will give him the best chance he's likely to have of grabbing a bucket of wickets and leaving in more dignified circumstances than this series has allowed.
Anderson bowled with plenty of assistance through most of this series. Even had cloud cover for nearly every spell. Can't blame the pitches for his lack of penetration.
Yep overall England definitely played better cricket. Given how much better they usually play than Australia in English conditions, dukes ball etc. they should be very disappointed with 2-2. But then Australia should be disappointed too. They played bad and the tactics were terrible. Cummins/McDonald is not a good leadership team.
Yeah, with the weather and that day 1 declaration, England will feel like they should've won 4 or maybe 3-1. However, I also think they'll feel a lot better than they did after the 2-2 draw in 2019 when the opposite was true.
