After rain washed away all possibility of play on the final day of the fourth Test, and with it England’s chances of winning back the Ashes, Ben Stokes said it had been “a tough pill to swallow”.
He had seen his side put on a performance he described as “pretty much perfect” – in stark contrast to the Australia captain, Pat Cummins, who admitted his team had been “across the board in all facets, not really at our best”. Verdicts rendered all but meaningless by the weekend deluge.
