This won't be a popular opinion, I'm sure – and one from a slightly removed perspective, but I'm really enjoying the contests, even though England look like they are going to lose three in a row. There's probably been more excitement in these three tests so far than in some previous series –...
My point, which Stokes has proven, is that you never really know what might've happened – and you certainly can't predict what WILL happen. Who would've expected England to get anywhere near Australia's total when they were 142-7 or 167-8? Pretty much nobody, I'm guessing.
Yes, mistakes were...
It has, but even if all the chances were taken, there could've been someone else in the Aussie lineup who could've got a big score and the game situation would be the same. Just because one thing does or doesn't happen, it doesn't mean that everything else that follows would've been the same.