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It was always going to be an impossible mission, with India having won their last-16 home Test series, but Ben Stokes as England’s captain has not, for once, made the best of a bad job.
Let’s start this Ashes review by comparing England’s second innings at the Oval with how they played at the same phase of the Edgbaston Test at the start of the summer. The total when they lost their fifth wicket was 332 and 150 respectively. The runs at the Oval came at just over five an over; in Birmingham, the rate was just under five an over
Test Match Special statistician Andy Zaltzman reveals how a £1 accumulator could have earned you £18 quadrillion. Maybe.
Australia retained the Ashes after rain completely ruled out play on the fifth day
Moeen Ali was helped by Susan Thompson-Craig, from Norfolk, to cure a cut on his spinning finger which was affecting his bowling during The Ashes.