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I've been on nights, so I'm following this through the medium of dream. England about to go 3-2 thanks to runs from Steve Harmison and Admiral Nelson on the back of fine work with the ball from Hattie Jacques.

The Waugh Twins wrote:

hopeforthebest wrote:We England Fans have taken a powder Twins.

Is that a beechams powder, or something similar?

Something for the pain anyway.

Nice job Finchy.

Who gets man of the series ? Mitch Marsh ?

hopeforthebest wrote:

The Waugh Twins wrote:

hopeforthebest wrote:We England Fans have taken a powder Twins.

Is that a beechams powder, or something similar?

Something for the pain anyway.

ya got the big one, albeit the tiniest trophy likely on offer in the world.

This doesn't seem to have got any better.

This match pretty much typifies the entire tour.

Here we were set for the grand finale and it's ended in a whimper.

We must have played 300 games agaisnt the Aussies since the start of 2013.

It's certainly felt like it.

Good job.

Goodbye to cricket for a while and time to focus on something else.

Well done you Aussies. And new England for a better than usual post Ashes result.

Terrible performance from England mixed in with some terrible luck along the way.

Have to wonder if Hales has played himself out of the UAE tour in this series.

Home international season over for another year.

Haven't checked stats , however i feel Alex (avg 21, SR 88) must be the least averaging opener amongst top 8 cricket teams. Also what happened to Jos, was he dropped or injured

Seems that without Joe Root, the team is without a backbone. Nobody to score a hundred.

clubcricketeradi wrote:Haven't checked stats , however i feel Alex (avg 21, SR 88) must be the least averaging opener amongst top 8 cricket teams. Also what happened to Jos, was he dropped or injured

Seems that without Joe Root, the team is without a backbone. Nobody to score a hundred.

Taylor scored a ton last game, Morgan has made two scores of 80 plus this series and a ton against New Zealand, Buttler also made a ton against New Zealand. So the claim there is no one to score hundreds is quite a long way wide of the mark.

Hales has had a very poor series but made two 50s against New Zealand at an average of 33 and a strike rate of over 120. It's always the case that people have a very short memory when it comes to players. After the New Zealand series lots of people were saying Roy should be dropped, but after the next series where he's averaged 40 with two fifties at a strike rate of over 100 he's suddenly off the chopping block.

Buttler was technically rested, but his form has been very poor since the start of the Ashes.