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Jonathan Agnew

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Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

three months after playing his last game and look as if he has been well prepared and has played four or five games he's a good bowler well this is my point because he's a world class bowler Australia might just dare we say it just be better I mean you look at the number of wickets that are out there

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

I mean, it's also having fabulous skills all round, isn't it?

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

Because, let's face it, the wicket of Will Jacks, he's almost blameless on Will Jacks.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

He's done very little wrong to that ball.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

He's got a seam bowler who's come in and bowled a ball that's jagged back.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

He's got a big inside edge.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

It can't be LPW.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

It's bounced off his inner thigh.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

But unbelievably, Alex Carey is standing up to the medium-fast bowler.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

And with brilliant reflexes and game awareness, he dives forward and takes a catch that

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

99 times out of 100, Will Jacks has actually got enough bat on that to save himself.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

The top line is Snicko is a mess.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

It is.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

One of the Australian players said that it needed to be sacked.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

It was the worst technology ever.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

This was Australians being upset, right?

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

There was a thoroughly confusing passage of play when Jamie Smith punched the ball, it seemed.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

But it was decided that it actually hit his helmet because Snicko got it all wrong.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

All the time, Rosamund Gawadja hadn't taken a clean catch anyway, so it was totally unnecessary for us to go through it.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task

So that was a farce.