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‘Awesome’, ‘special’ and ‘courageous’ were just some of the words the England skipper used to describe his side’s first Test win on Australian soil since 2011 ‘Finally!’ Stokes overjoyed at ‘amazing’ Ashes win Ben Stokes has described England’s successful Ashes run-chase as one of the best of his career following a drought-breaking four-wicket win in the Boxing Day Test. England arrived at the MCG under a mountain of pressure, unable to regain the Ashes following defeats in the opening three matches of the series. The emergence of a video featuring a slurring Ben Duckett, filmed during the team’s Noosa break,…
‘Finally!’ Stokes overjoyed at ‘amazing’ Ashes win Ben Stokes suggested the fourth Ashes Test wicket would face more scrutiny if it was played “somewhere else in the world” as the Melbourne Cricket Club braces for the International Cricket Council’s forthcoming verdict on its seam-friendly pitch. With Cricket Australia facing another multimillion-dollar loss from the second two-day Ashes Test of the series, Steve Smith conceded he was unsure why curator Matt Page left 10mm of grass on the seam-friendly MCG wicket that saw 36 wickets fall in 142 overs. The 852 balls it lasted were five more than bowled in this…
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The significance of the moment was underlined when the entire squad emerged from the dressing room to share the final moments together — a release years in the making. “We, at the end there when all the boys came out of the dressing room and had a little hug there and we’re like, finally, finally we’ve won one. So, yeah, good feeling,” he said. On a surface that offered something for the bowlers throughout, England committed to a proactive approach in the fourth innings, a decision Stokes felt was essential against Australia’s relentless attack. “There was only one way of…
Melbourne’s sporting colosseum hosted two days of absolute mayhem, and these are some of the main numbers to emerge from the chaos Australia v England | Fourth Ashes Test | Day Two 92,045 Fans who packed the mighty MCG on day two, second only behind the day one crowd of 94,199 for the largest attended day of cricket at the venue. 5468 Days since England’s last Test victory in Australia. You have to go back to the New Year’s Test of 2011, which England won by an innings and 83 runs, for their most recent win Down Under. 767 Runs…
Australia v England | Fourth Ashes Test | Day Two And so, on the furry grass of the MCG centre wicket and amid the masses decrying the very nature of this quite unbelievable contest, England greats Joe Root and Ben Stokes finally tasted an Ashes Test win in Australia. For the second time in four matches through this at-times bizarre Ashes series, a match took on the feel of a limited-overs contest, played out across four innings inside a couple of chaotic days as Bazball awoke from the dead and, ironically after their tame retreat when the series was live…
England avoided any danger of an Ashes whitewash after ending an 18-Test and 15-year winless streak in Australia with a two-day victory in a remarkable match at Melbourne to cut their hosts’ lead to 3-1 with one game to go.The wicket-fest on a spicy MCG pitch led to just the third two-day Ashes Test in 104 years – but the second in this series after Australia’s rapid eight-wicket win in the opening fixture at Perth. England reached a target of 175 in 32.2 overs to win by four wickets with bizarre scenes including Brydon Carse (6 off 8) promoted to…
England captain Ben Stokes said he “could not be prouder” of his team after they rallied from a trying week to win an astonishing two-day Test at the MCG and claim a first victory in Australia since January 2011. Spreaker This content is provided by Spreaker, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Spreaker cookies or to allow those cookies just once. You can change your settings at any time via the Privacy Options. Unfortunately…
Australia v England | Fourth Ashes Test | Day Two England toasted their first Test victory on Australian soil in 15 years after emerging from an MCG snake pit as the lesser bitten combatant across two days of chaos. Bazball finally had its day in the sun as an impatient top-order led by Jacob Bethell (40), Zak Crawley (37) and Ben Duckett (34) took the tourists to glory in front of a 92,045-strong crowd, many of whom have had tickets for coming days voided by the series’ second two-day Test. England had failed to win a Test in Australia in…