Not much to preview here; it feels like a must-win for England. I’m fairly certain the team won't be thinking that, but from the outside looking in, this feels like a match England can’t afford to lose if they have hopes of winning the series and taking the Ashes home. A lot was made after the first Test, where England lost what looked like an unlosable match. The issue wasn’t the loss itself, but the manner of the defeat. The fact that it was self-inflicted and resulted in a two-day game -...

I recently wrote a piece on the theatrical nature of Test cricket -- a five-day journey of emotion and drama. What we’ve just witnessed at the first Ashes Test completely disregarded that. It microwaved the five-day drama into two days,  creating a tiktok test match and I’m not sure anyone really knows what to make of it.  Was it good? It was entertaining, certainly. But was it good ? ACT I: The False Dawn The sense of anticipation built until it reached its pinnacle: Mitchell Starc at the...

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