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Labuschagne gone, 211-5, trailing by 64.
We all said there’d be barely any play at the weekend.
Like with the declaration in the first test, it's not even being smart in hindsight; both felt like the wrong decision at the time.
Makes the fifth test a bit of an anti-climax. I do think things need to be looked at going forward. Like, can there not be a spare day to allow for things like this? Can they not, as Root suggested, play until 10pm if the lights are on? Test cricket doesn't do itself a lot of favours sometimes.
I think Aussie will know that they were a bit fortunate at least. I know The Oval Test is irrelevant now in terms of regaining The Ashes
but we deserve to at least draw the series.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/66272611
"There has been a lot of talk, some of which has been out of order. At the same time that is part and parcel of people that have an opinion and that have a say.
"There have been times [when] if people had a conversation with you individually and found out a bit more about the injury or the ankle and how everything is going they may have a slightly different view."
That to me sounds like he knows he's not played great, but he feels he's done pretty well considering the injury he suffered, so we should give him some leeway. Well, if he feels that is the case, he should have, imo, been honest enough to say, when he was being selected, that he wasn't up to keeping in the most important Test series there is.
It's not as if you're turning up at the local village cricket club, your usual keeper is at a wedding, and you fill in behind the stumps because, well, someone has to. We had someone who, last summer, Stokes described as the best keeper in the world, waiting in the wings. I know it's a team game, but the biggest deciding factor in a close series was the selection of Bairstow to keep imo. Even without Bairstow's injury it would have been a big call to let him keep, but given he's basically admitting that he isn't fully recovered, then it makes the decision by Stokes and McCullum indefensible.
Still, probably been rained off. 😤
Australia hasn't won an ashes series in England since 2001.
Lets keep that going.
I hope you enjoy your day Iron Herb
Hope the sun shines in “That London “ this week .