Chapter 1: How did Australia secure their 4-1 Ashes victory?
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You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. So Australia have won this final test match at the SCG by five wickets. They were chasing 160. They got there in 31.2 overs. There were a few wobbles on the way, but then Carey and Green just steadied things and got Australia to a deserved 4-1 victory. They've dominated England in this series.
England have made too many mistakes throughout the series.
Chapter 2: What were the key mistakes made by England during the series?
Head out for 29, Weatherill for 34, Labuschagne run out for 37. That was 121 for 5. He ran himself out. England just had a small hope there, but Carey and Green just settled things. Smith was bowled by Beauty from Jacks for 12. in his final test innings, played on to Tongue for six.
He got a huge standing ovation as he walked off the ground, but not quite the way he would have wanted to end, although Australia have won the match. England bowled out for 342. Jacob Bethel out to start with a new ball for 154. Potts was on 18 and Tongue the last man out for six.
Chapter 3: What insights did Ben Stokes share about England's performance?
So 160 to win and ultimately Australia... getting over the line. Glenn McGrath is with me, Phil Tufnell is with me, Jonathan Agnew down on the outfield, and he'll be joining us shortly. So what do we say at the end of this series, Tuffers? What are the key... factors as we look back over this Test match and the last six or seven weeks. It's difficult to round it all up really.
I think what it is is that you can't fluke wins in Australia or against Australia on these kind of pitches. You know in England you can sort of play this way a little bit and sort of be a bit reckless and bowl you know sort of bit wayward and get nicks and if it's your day you can sort of lighten
end up in a very very strong position over here you've got to really earn the right on these pitches you can't 30s 40s 50s aren't enough in australia you know look at travis head look at steve smith you've got to go on look at jacob bethel you've got to go on and get big daddy hundreds and when you bowl you just can't run up and just hope that it's going to be on the top of off stump otherwise you're going to get carted everywhere so
Chapter 4: How did Usman Khawaja feel about his final Test match?
I think England weren't precise enough. I don't know why we dropped all the catches. I mean, that's about 20-odd catches we've dropped there. Unbelievable. And when you have to work and grind wickets on pitches like this, when catches come along, you've got to take them.
Obviously, no one means to drop them, but we've dropped too many catches, which has just always put us behind the eight ball a little bit. But, yeah, hard conditions, and we just didn't have the, patience you know the patience to stick it out and get a big score get a 500 you know keep in the heat pit in the top of us now you know and Australia did.
We're obviously looking from an English perspective Glenn you're looking in from an Australian perspective on this England side what do you what do you see in this England side where have they gone wrong?
Yeah, I think they came out here with the attitude that this was their best opportunity for a long time.
Chapter 5: What were the standout performances from the series?
They were going to come out and play their way and dominate. When you sort of sit back and you think, well, you can't say we're unlucky or we've been hard done by. They won four of the five tosses to start with, which is... then you get to do what you want. And then I think strategy, they were a little bit off.
It took them three test matches to realise, hang on a minute, the way we're playing here is not suited to Australian conditions. It's not going to work for us. And then the series was already gone. So yeah, you like to think it was a learning experience. There's a lot said about basketball.
Chapter 6: How did the commentators analyze England's batting strategy?
I know Brendan McCollum's not a big fan of the name, but I like the concept of players playing without fear. And it's amazing what you can achieve. But you've got to be able to adapt to the conditions. You've got to be able to absorb pressure and enjoy pressure. And there's got to be accountability to yourself, to your team, and to the fans. And so I think they're halfway there.
Hopefully, they'll be able to take something out of this, you know, the way Jacob Bethel, you know, played in the little opportunity that he had. I think he's, you know, He's locked his name in at number three there.
Chapter 7: What changes are expected in the England team moving forward?
And then Josh Tong, we were saying before, he should have been bowling more. He should have played all the tests and probably should have opened the innings a lot more because I think he's... So there's some positives, but there's a lot of questions to be asked. Brendan McCollum, does he continue? Does he want to continue? Ben Stokes, what's he going to do?
Does he hand the captaincy over to someone like Harry Brook? Harry Brook, what has he learned from this? So there's a lot of questions to be asked. We'll see what the answers, whether any of them are going to be answered. I know four years is a long way off, and probably Australia will have a completely different team, maybe in 18 months' time.
Chapter 8: What reflections did Travis Head share after his performance?
So we'll wait and see. But, yeah, it's tough coming to Australia and playing. Yeah, it is.
Yeah, it is. Australia being the most successful team at home in the history of Test cricket. Right, let's get some reaction now from the England captain, Ben Stokes, with Jonathan Agnew. Ben is walking here, and he's actually walking relatively freely. I know, Ben. That kind of sums it up, really. Is he coming off yesterday at the end of that series? How are you physically?
Yeah, obviously disappointed to come off. Yeah, I've been pretty hard for the series, put a lot of effort into the series before I was able to go off. But yeah, again, we should have got 100 more. They shouldn't have got an extra 100 and that's pretty much the whole series really.
You're not the first England captain to lose here and you won't be the last. But I wonder how you feel when you do analyse it going back after this?
Yeah, well, there's obviously, there will be a lot of time to reflect on it and I think we're like, you know, we started so well in the first, you know, couple of years and then now what we've, you know, we've done, we're just sort of slowly eking downwards, which is never a good place to be at and as a team and yeah, look, it's,
The time that we've got off after this is a time for reflection and time for some pretty honest truths because it needs to happen and those kind of things need to be said or else you just end up standing still. And we always talk about wanting to move forward, press on as a team, press on as individuals. And I think the series has highlighted that there is a lot of room for improvement for
each individual in this team to kick on and be a better player than they already are and then also you know as a team with our mentality towards you know how we take the game of Test cricket on as England and also you know identifying what we need to do in big moments of the game because too many occasions this series and even before this we've done it to ourselves where we've been in a very very strong position and yeah we've let teams back into games where we're in control of it.
I wonder how much of a warning note that defeat to India was in the last test match of the summer against Rural, where you had wrapped up to win. Was that, in hindsight now, a warning bell? Well, again, I say it's not just this series.
There's moments that have happened before this series where we've done it to ourselves, done it by decisions that we've decided to take out there in the middle when we're either in a strong position or the game's there for the taking for us.
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