Michael Atherton

put the beer away put the champagne on ice 24 years of pain in Australia finally they're beaten at home by England

Well, end of day two here in Adelaide.

It has been a stifling hot day, 40 degrees plus, and the crowd wearily take themselves back over the bridge and into the city.

Michael, we were there 24 hours ago and we said today and maybe tomorrow was a day for England's top eight to deliver.

They've certainly not done that on what is still a very good Adelaide pitch.

Not just the batting, which we will come on to.

Mustn't forget how they went with the ball up front today.

I mean, they were not very good, short and wide.

And it led to that fallout between Stokes and Archer.

Archer, as Ath said yesterday, was by far the pick of the bowlers.

Five wickets deserved it today.

You know, shut up a few of the critics of him in Brisbane.

But there was that moment where he bowled a short wide one and he got cut by Stark.

And Stokes refused to change the field.

And then he bowled straight.

And there was that heated moment where Stokes basically said, I'm not setting a field for bad bowling.

Bowl at the stumps.

That's where I want you to do it.

I think that was a good moment for Stokes to lay down to his whole bowling attack.

We've not bowled well in this whole series.