Whilst clearly we haven't pulled up any trees in Adelaide over the past few days luck has a lot to do with it, the toss was always going to be important, but on that first day if the dropped catches of Haddin and Clarke early on in their epic innings had been held its a different game.
In our...
The hypocrisy is astounding, the Aussie Cricket Board tell us at every possible moment how they want to continue to promote cricket at grass roots level, at the lunch and tea intervals the outfield is awash with small children playing forms of quick cricket in brightly coloured uniforms, yet...
Perhaps clutching at straws but a couple of factors to throw into the mix.
The Aussies we sat behind yesterday went ballistic when Clarke didn't enforce the follow on, went on about the likes of Gerg Chappell, Alan Border, Waugh even Ricky Ponting all would have ground England into the dirt...