England captain Ben Stokes has admitted that his side’s chaotic two-day victory over Australia in the fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne was “not the best advertisement” for Test match cricket.
While there was undoubtedly a superficially fun edge to seeing the mayhem unfold at the MCG, this was the second time in the series that a Test has finished inside two days –despite only 25 such occurrences previously in the entirety of Test cricket history heading into the Ashes.
