The Ashes Daily: England on the brink as Australia close in on series victory
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What was the Day 4 match situation at the Adelaide Oval and how did England finish the day?
That is from Crawley. Chris Wokes nails it for four. The Ash is alive and Test cricket alive. Ice in his veins. Pat Cummins has led his team to a famous victory. England's captain Ben Stokes, while he is there, England have... Put the beer away, put the champagne on ice. 24 years of pain in Australia. Finally they're beaten at home by England.
Testing one, two, one, two, testing for sound. I just want to get that out there.
Has there been an issue, Michael?
Hopefully there's no issue tonight.
There was a problem with your microphone yesterday, but I read the comments below and they said, thankfully we can't hear Michael Atherton, more of Nasser Hussein the better. So hopefully they can hear you today.
Now this was a big day for you today. You are the proud record holder. as an England captain in two ashes series of having lost the ashes in 11 days. That's a record.
I was claiming the extra half hour.
And if they'd have gone down today, that was 10 days. But they've survived, so you're going to hold the record.
I'm not having the 2001 series at home because I bust my poppadom fingers and you were in charge, so you lost.
Twice. Two tests.
You were in charge for two tests. So both me and you lost it in 10 days. And then out here, I lost it in 11 days or 10 days?
11 days, 2003. So England are going into the 11th day of the series tomorrow. They've survived today, but they're out of miracles, aren't they?
I think so. There was a period again today where it's the hope that kills you, isn't it? There was that hope that when Crawley was batting with Brook and they were searching for a wicket and they were playing so nicely, you just thought, you know what, this England side, they've sort of done this thing before. Maybe, maybe. But then when they got one, you just saw with Stokes being vulnerable as a left hander and the record of lying against Stokes, you could see that wicket coming as well.
It was quite a competitive day's play. It was one of those days where you'd wake up as an England player slightly fearing what's to come because you're so far behind the game. But let's talk about the good things, first of all. Two principal good things. One, the bowling this morning. They took six for 38. They hoovered up Australia's innings pretty quickly. Stokes obviously bowled those seven overs at the start because there was a bit of chat yesterday that he might have been injured. So that seemed to be good news, the fact that his body seems fine. And then Zach Crawley's innings. But the bowling, first of all, pretty good this morning. Yeah.
They always look a better bowling outfit when Stokes can play a full role because it means other bowlers come in a little bit fresher. Yesterday when he couldn't bowl, they all just, they look half the attack to be honest. So he set the tone as he often does. And I think Tongue in particular, has been excellent in this test match they've used him as the enforcer role at times with the short pitch deliveries but that angle he creates and the way he bowled today where he angled it in and nipped it away you could see some of those wickets coming outside the off stump so I also thought they were just slightly going back to more fundamentals as well rather than the short pitch ploy all the time with ball and bat they seem to have moved back
to the fundamentals. Do you, A, agree with that? And do you, B, think, well, have they blinked a little bit? And should they have gone back to the fundamentals?
I think they have blinked with the bat, but I think they've been kind of forced into blinking just by the fact that what they've been doing hasn't been working on the bouncier pitches in Perth and Brisbane and by the relentlessness of the Australian attack and some of the outstanding out cricket. We'll talk about that catch from Marnus Labershain. I do believe with the ball, I've said this before to you, they go to that short pitch ploy too often and too frequently. And I think it's because it camouflages the fact that they can't be accurate enough for long enough.
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