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Root was flying, why not try to add another 40 or 50 runs to pile on the pressure for their first innings?

From award winning writer Kevin Garside. Lots of positives in the entire article about Bazball and the Stokes methods, but a stark message that some test fundamentals never change.

Pro sport, winning is everything. Aussies cottoned on to that decades ago, a grittiness in every sport, fighting to preserve every precious test wicket in cricket, 100% concentration to the end. Occasionally we’re loaned The Ashes when the likes of Strauss masterfully match that. Too clever...

Declaring on day one of a five day test, was brilliant. Paved the way for a going behind in a test series. Clever strategy. I see Australia, India, SA and NZ now copying the innovative genius.

Serial winners defeat gallant losers, again.

It’s the taking part and Corinthian Spirit that counts. We’d all take a great final day with a loss, over an emphatic England win. But I’ve always had a sneaking feeling that Border, Waugh, Ponting, Smith et al think the exact opposite. An Alex Ferguson gritty win at all costs ethos.