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1st drawn Ashes series since 1972. Australia lost the plot during Stokes special at Manchester & Paine's decision after the toss came back to haunt his team. Root has saved his face as a captain after this win.

At least matches are quite competitive in England as compared to down under where Poms are habitual to the usual thrashing barring 2010-11.

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Just now, Turning_track said:

1st drawn Ashes series since 1972. Australia lost the plot during Stokes special at Manchester & Paine's decision after the toss came back to haunt his team now. Root has saved his face as a captain after this win.

At least matches are quite competitive in England as compared to down under where Poms are habitual to the usual thrashing barring 2010-11.

Eng are worse off root as captain though...aus should end their pain nd should make Smith captain again

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2 minutes ago, Pratik77 said:

Eng are worse off root as captain though...aus should end their pain nd should make Smith captain again

Many England ex cricketers don't rate him highly as a captain & want Stokes as skipper but this would mean more burden on Stokes whose fitness remains iffy. 

Paine doesn't even deserve a place in the playing eleven, he should be thanking his lucky stars he's been chosen as a captain. 

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Brat might have sledged Paine about being a temporary captain last Australian summer, but if not Paine, who's gonna be the Aussie test skipper in the short term?

 

- Hazlewood? Cummins? Lyon? They NEVER give the captaincy to a bowler.

- Head? Captain of South Australia, but still hasn't found a permanent place in the Test team.

- Labuschagne? Looks like he could become a permanent fixture, but he isn't just yet. Let him concentrate on his batting and part-time spin for now.

- Finch (the ODI and T20I captain)? Hopelessly exposed against India in the Test series last summer. No.
- Smith? Not eligible again until March 2020, and why would you want to go back there anyway? Let him just concentrate on being the best batsman in the world.

- Mitch Marsh? lol j/ks

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25 minutes ago, Vk1 said:

This is an incredible comeback from England considering how strong Aussie bowling attack was in the series.. 

it tells you how difficult it is to win a big test series overseas and people questioning our win in Aus should be ashamed of themselves.  You dont get an overseas 4-5 test series win on a platter against a top team even if they are missing a player or two.  England missed Anderson whole series and it could have been completely different in his presence.  Imagine Anderson, Broad and Archer.  None of Woakes and Curran were good enough to replace Anderson.

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8 hours ago, rkt.india said:

it tells you how difficult it is to win a big test series overseas and people questioning our win in Aus should be ashamed of themselves.  You dont get an overseas 4-5 test series win on a platter against a top team even if they are missing a player or two.  England missed Anderson whole series and it could have been completely different in his presence.  Imagine Anderson, Broad and Archer.  None of Woakes and Curran were good enough to replace Anderson.

A decent Aussie batting liine up would have closed this series 4-0 or 4-1.  They hardly had any batsman other than Smith to support that bowling group. This weak batting unit has inturn put more pressure on those bowlers. I dont think it is that difficult for very good teams to win overseas...forget west indies of 80s or Aussies under Steve Waugh even south africa of this decade were winning in overseas due to strong bowling attack and with good set of batsman.

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On 9/17/2019 at 12:42 PM, rkt.india said:

it tells you how difficult it is to win a big test series overseas and people questioning our win in Aus should be ashamed of themselves.  You dont get an overseas 4-5 test series win on a platter against a top team even if they are missing a player or two.  England missed Anderson whole series and it could have been completely different in his presence.  Imagine Anderson, Broad and Archer.  None of Woakes and Curran were good enough to replace Anderson.

Anderson has always been Smith's b!tch, no? What difference would he have made in the England vs Smith battles?

In our case Smith owns us everywhere and is the (undisputed) greatest batsman of this era, Warner has a great record at home against us...4 100s in 6 tests I think. Big difference !!! 

I think Archer was a better choice than Anderson. Had Andu played Archer wouldn't have been picked, Smith wouldn't have got concussed and would have ended the series with 1000 runs. 

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