Thought aus would wrap up at 2am - 2:30am, but it took till 5:30am. Although the pressure was off and they had plenty to spare a last innings 5 wickets is pretty good.
First look overview. there's an ashes in 18 months.
crawley 27 yo, nah. bin.
duckett 31 yo, nah. bin.
bethell 22 yo, saved himself at the last, just about earned another chance.
root 35 yo, my guess is retirement series.
brook 26 yo, shown just enough, kept on by the skin of his teeth.
stokes 34 yo, isn't getting any less injured. serious question over him. might be time to cash in.
smith 25 yo, brainless. first for the chop.
jacks 27 yo, statement culling, gone!
carse 30 yo, did just enough with the ball, survives, just.
potts 27 yo, nah, bin.
tongue 28 yo, survives.
archer 30 yo, sadly like stokes, injury prone, can't cope.
pope 28 yo, bin.
5/13 to go forward with. this series has to be the death knell for a set of careers that never were. bow out graceful. need to be finding the next root and stokes now and preparing them for some tough times.
Jacob Bethell and 18-wicket Josh Tongue earn highest marks as we grade Englands players after the Ashes thumping Down Under; Joe Root hit two hundreds, in Brisbane and Sydney, but what mark did we give him? Tough times for seamers Mark Wood and Matthew Potts at opposite ends of series
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key and mccullum need tarring and feathering and made to drag a great weight each out of london from piccadilly and banishing. remove their names from the records, they no longer exist.
to much dead weight. failures meaning promotions. the very definition of the slime in the tory party. so long.
