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There was talk of a slow death, rigor mortis and graveyards as the British press pack sifted through the bones of England’s error-riddled Ashes campaign with Australia looking to nail down the series coffin in Melbourne. The Australians, without two of their front-line bowlers, still outplayed the tourists in a crushing 275-run triumph to seize […]

Australia are lording it over England – the English touring press pack all agree – with the hosts closing in on a 2-0 series lead in Adelaide. And the chances of a comeback by Joe Root’s men ‘belong in cloud cuckoo land’. It was another dispiriting day for England: skittled for 236 to concede a […]

England’s hopes of regaining the Ashes are somewhere between slim and non-existent, bemoaned the travelling English press pack after another dramatic batting collapse handed victory to Australia in the first Test at the Gabba. After feeling a tad more optimistic about salvaging the match after the 162-run day partnership between captain Joe Root and Dawid […]

The UK cricket press frothed over England’s catastrophic opening day of the Ashes series and took skipper Joe Root to task over his controversial decision to bat first on a green top in the latest chapter of their Gabba woes. There was also an inquisition over the call to omit both pace figureheads James Anderson […]