0موسم گرما کے ایک کریکنگ آخری دن

مجھے ایشز کے آخری دن سے کسی بڑی چیز کی توقع نہیں تھی۔ انگلینڈ کے ساتھ ابھی بھی اپنی پہلی اننگز باقی ہے, and seem­ingly with no chance of win­ning I expec­ted them to bat out the day. Instead a won­der­ful day of crick­et took place with both sides deserving a huge amount of credit.

Here at Adore­Crick­et we try really hard to remain focused on the pos­it­ives of the game — it is all too easy to get drawn into only writ­ing about the neg­at­ive events of the game. Before I go on with the main thrust of this art­icle though there is an ele­phant in the room that I must address. I’m not going to say too much about it, but the ICC made a ter­rible decision when they changed the rules regard­ing bad light. After the shame­ful end to today’s game the ICC quite simply must cor­rect this mis­take and do so swiftly to avoid fur­ther embarrassment.

تو, چلو، آگے بڑھنے, back to the pos­it­ives. Eng­land deserve huge cred­it for the way they bat­ted this morn­ing — mak­ing nearly 5 runs an over. The Aus­trali­ans also deserve huge cred­it — Michael Clarke in par­tic­u­lar, for the way they bat­ted in their second innings, and their declar­a­tion which gave Eng­land a good chance. Finally, Eng­land deserve some more cred­it for the way they chased the tar­get, and almost cer­tainly would have won.

سب کے سب یہ ایک عظیم سلسلہ رہا ہے, and Eng­land can take a lot of momentum into the next series in 3 months time. a 3–0 series vic­tory is a fair reflec­tion of the qual­ity of the sides, with Aus­tralia improv­ing as the series went along. Eng­land should be com­fort­able favour­ites for the return series, although prob­ably by a smal­ler margin.