Australia retained the coveted urn after the fifth and ultimate day of the drawn fourth Take a look at was washed out as a result of moist climate. With the collection standing at 2-1 in favour of Australia, England will enter the ultimate Take a look at at The Oval, commencing on Thursday, with the intention of salvaging their pleasure and constructing for the long run.
The drawn fourth Take a look at was a nail-biting affair for England, who had been on the verge of staging an unbelievable comeback from being 2-Zero down within the collection.
Boosted by Zak Crawley’s sensational innings of 189, England posted a powerful first-innings whole of 592.
Talking to reporters, Crawley expressed the group’s eagerness to say a victory within the ultimate Take a look at, asserting, “We’re massively up for it. Any recreation, you wish to win. As Ben Stokes says, we’re constructing as a group, this is not the tip simply because it is the tip of the Ashes. Hopefully, it’s extremely a lot the beginning.”
Crawley additional advised {that a} 2-2 collection scoreline could be a good reflection of the carefully contested battle between the 2 cricketing giants. He opined, “I believe 2-2 could be honest. They’d the higher of us at Lord’s, Edgbaston may have gone both means, we in all probability deserved this one and Headingley may have gone both means. So I believe 2-2 could be proper.”
The batter believed that England was gaining an higher hand within the collection and lamented the rain-affected draw, stating, “It felt like we had been getting on high of them for positive, and if we would received this recreation, it will have been very attention-grabbing to see. They have some excellent gamers, and they might have bounced again, however the momentum would have been with us for positive.”
(With inputs from Reuters)
