Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
I couldn’t see England taking ten wickets today, especially with most of the afternoon washed out, but, while everyone talks about the batting with bazball, it also has seen them become far better at taking twenty wickets in the match than they were.
The winning margins of two and three wickets and two of forty odd runs shows how close the series was, but it’s hard to see how it would have been anything other than a very comfortable win for England at Old Trafford if it were not for the rain.
The one negative for me is that a five match test match series in this country should not be finishing in July as it was shoehorned into almost a month to accommodate the bloody Hundred - what an anti climax the next month threatens to be.