Did “clashing ideologies,” as was being said until Ricky Ponting and Usman Khwaja spoke up and hit a discordant note, really “script an epic Ashes” series? Was it, as the Australian duo suggested, a bit of jiggery-pokery which may have sensationally fashioned the result of the Oval Test or was it the eternal “sour grapes” story playing out again?
Nitin Menon, a former Indian domestic cricketer, is officiating in the ongoing third 2023 Ashes Test between England and Australia.
econd Ashes Test, which began at Lord's on Wednesday with Australia 1-0 ahead, was of greater significance, considering it was a national, rather than individual, headache.
Protesters who wore Just Stop Oil T-shirts landed at the Lord’s Cricket Ground and disrupted the second Ashes Test match…
Importantly, though, it was only England's third defeat of the Bazball regime, which meant that you couldn’t really dip your pain in acid and write disdainfully of Brendon McCullum, the coach who preaches hyper-aggressive Test cricket or Ben Stokes, the captain who made himself conspicuous with his rash first-day declaration.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stepped in on behalf of his country's cricketers and has pleaded for the families to be allowed to travel to Australia
Vaughan has said that if players are not allowed "to have their family members with them", the tour should be called off
The off-spinner, Nathan Lyon, further said that the Australian team were eagerly waiting for India's return to Down Under later this year.
India are currently scheduled to travel to Australia for a blockbuster Test series later this year and Hogg suggested it should be scrapped and Tim Paine's troops should play England instead.
Notably, it was Australia's first series loss in the last 18 years of Ashes history. The Australian juggernaut which had started in the 1989 series was finally put on a halt in the year 2005.
