Quote Originally Posted by fugsyphil View Post
Lol I should have guessed you'd have some good backup stats to go with your post! Hope you are right but just think England will miss out in this one
I think that's the beauty of test cricket. We can all have our opinions but absolutely anything can happen in a run chase like this. All the stats in the world go out of the window. Stokes at Headingley is proof of that - a test that was utterly dead in the water, then somehow it turned around.

Tomorrow there'll be men around the bat, very unorthodox/inventive field positions from Stokes, someone will score runs, someone will take wickets. I haven't made a prediction yet because I really don't know which way it is going to go. I don't think Australia will walk it. It's the Ashes. Things happen, like Brooks' wicket in the first innings. A close test like this is just great drama and there's possibly nothing like it elsewhere in sport.