زبردست!! کیا میچ. حیران کن امپائرنگ فیصلوں کو دیا (جب آپ بھی شامل ہوں 3rd امپائرز) شاید اسے جتنا ہونا چاہئے تھا اس سے تھوڑا قریب کردیا (اگرچہ دونوں اطراف کا سامنا کرنا پڑا) but what a fantastic advert YET AGAIN for test match cricket.
اس سیریز میں جاتے ہوئے ایسا لگتا تھا کہ آسٹریلیا کے لئے مشکل سے گزرنا ہے. کاغذ پر صرف تین کھلاڑی, بہترین, آسٹریلیائی ٹیم - کلارک سے شروع ہونے والی الیون میں انگلینڈ میں جگہ بنائے گی, واٹسن اور سڈل. بہت کم لوگوں نے انہیں موقع دیا۔ لیکن کچھ بہادر ڈسپلے کے ذریعے انہوں نے یہ ثابت کردیا, جب کم از کم ایشز کی بات آجائے, as a team they are greater than the sum of their individual parts.
Despite this England still managed to turn it around and prove that they have the mettle to win when all seemed lost.
It will be very interesting to see how the rest of the series develops now. Will England now steam ahead after this incredibly hard fought victory and whitewash the visitors, or will the Antipodeans claim a much needed morale boost and fight tooth and nail throughout the remainder of the summer?
I for one can’t wait – although I might be keeping the doctor busy!
So what about a review of the match?
Well it started with a poor decision by Captain Cook to decide to bat after winning the toss and see-sawed from that moment on.
Poor batting by England for the most part in the first innings along with some shocking decisions and then a supreme comeback by the England attack only for it to be blunted by a 19 year old number 11 شروع ہو رہا ہے.
A decent recovery in England’s second innings with Ian Bell weighing in with a brilliant century (arguably his best ever given the state of the game) when England really needed it and Stuart Broad proving strong support. They finished maybe 30–40 runs short however.
But yet again the bowlers managed to turn it around with young Joe Root taking the vital wicket of Cowan which set the tone after a good start by their openers. What did I say in my previous column? باؤل اس سے زیادہ! یہاں تک کہ وہ صرف آپ کو دیتا ہے تو 10 ایک اننگز رنز. The attack managed to rip through the Aussie line-up but for the second innings on the trot the last pair managed heroics only for England to snatch it at the death when the visitors had perhaps made themselves favourites.
I say England attack – the credit must go to Jimmy Anderson for his performance during this game. Despite Bell’s century and Agar’s care-free 98, there really was no other candidate for man of the match. He recorded figures of 55 اوور گےند بازی, جن میں سے 13 were maidens, conceding 158 کے لئے رنز 10 match-winning wickets. بس میں عالمی معیار. He just gets better and better. Out of the others Broad looked OK, Swann took a couple of wickets but failed to live up to the pre-match hype but Finn must be very concerned about his place. He took a couple of important wickets in the first innings but overall bowled very poorly throughout the match. When England needed him in the second innings he failed to deliver and got smacked around the park. In the first innings England were a bowler down due to Broad’s shoulder injury but the captain clearly didn’t feel he had the confidence to call on Finn. Despite the next test being played in Finn’s backyard at Lords, پیاز یا بریسنن نے اس کو تبدیل کرنے کی امید رکھتے ہیں.
What an exciting summer we have in front of us.
“سرخ / سبز رنگ کی کمی کے نقطہ نظر میں گلابی رنگ بھوری رنگ / نیلے رنگ کی نظر آتی ہے, اس کی شدت پر منحصر ہے. میں نے رنگ اندھا پن کے ساتھ ایک نقالی کی تھی…”