The first test of The Ashes for this summer.
The match lasted just three and a half days. I watched damned near all of it.
Except for a session on day three when both teams seemed bereft of ideas on how to advance the game it was good cricket. The Poms were at that stage batting time as much as anything, the Ockers a bowler down and with a totally ineffectual spinner.
The fourth morning changed that and the Poms collapsed for a second time.
All good stuff.
Unfortunately I read this morning that the Poms were docked all of their match fees for a slow over-rate on day two.
Why, for christ's sake?
I can understand if there was a deliberate go-slow but for most of the day the Poms were two bowlers short and, notably, it was the first game of white-clothing cricket the two teams had played this summer.
It was the best day's cricket of the match!
Add to that that, as a spectator, I didn't feel the least bit short-changed by that over-rate.
This type of utter bullshit will accomplish only one thing: The demise of test cricket.
Players will avoid the longer form of the game.
Stop it! ICC get some sense in your rules.
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