He's right though isn't he? Not often you have nearly 2 days lost to rain. And even if they declared earlier unlikely to have changed anything. Poms getting damned either way, declaring too early and too late.OK guys, enough of the Pom bashing. Stokes has declared that no one understands the game as well as he and his team do.
"To be honest, anybody that was going to question the declaration in this game, probably doesn't understand the game as well as we do. We've had three hours of cricket in two days, whatever we did we wouldn’t have been able to force a result because of the weather. It is what it is."
Ben Stokes snaps at declaration question as England's Ashes dream ended by rain
England made the decision not to declare during the first innings of the fourth Ashes Test and even though Australia have now retained the urn due to unrelenting rain in Manchester, Ben Stokes isn't regretfulwww.mirror.co.uk
So they are just like us?
He's right though isn't he? Not often you have nearly 2 days lost to rain. And even if they declared earlier unlikely to have changed anything. Poms getting damned either way, declaring too early and too late.
It's a shame for us Lyon was injured and this test result has been impacted by weather, it had the makings of an all-time classic series. At least there is a bit of animosity between the sides so the 5th test should still be hard fought despite the ashes being decided.
Yeah it’s a damning stat but to be fair Warner takes the new ball.View attachment 20021
Good batsman is Mitch , second best in his family
We can only speculate of course, IMO it narrowed the gap. Emboldened them and psyched us out at times. So no.If I follow...
England are the better side. Miles better. 4-0 moral winners. Better bowlers. Better batsmen.
So if that's the case...
Did Bazball cost them the Ashes?
oh so predictable, Andrew McDonald on Warner:Thats 792 runs @ 25 (Which is boosted by the 200 v SA which without that brings his average to 19.7). But I have little doubt he,ll be picked for the next test. “We feel a big score isnt far away for Davey, he’s just had a bit of bad luck, he’s been hitting them wonderfully in the nets”.
I was going to post Warner has a big score around the corner....
He will want to enjoy the next 2 innings then as they should be his last.I was going to post Warner has a big score around the corner....
Cant believe AMac beat me to it!!!