It occurs to me to wonder at the really astonishing happenings in the first Ashes test match. After day 1, England were in trouble; by halfway through day 2, they were getting back on level terms, but by the end of day 3, they were in the proverbial sticky-stuff.
What then happened looks almost impossible. 517-1 is a scoreline seen very rarely and for it to have been achieved on a pitch that had seen only 2 truly decent scores in the the first 3 days of the match makes it all the more remarkable.
Does this game give any pointers for the rest of the series ? Probably not, but it will certainly go down in the annals of Ashes history as one of the strangest matches played between the 2 old enemies.
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