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After awful Ashes defeat, will England ever be good at Test cricket again?-by Jonathan Liew Jimmy Anderson sees a Cameron Green delivery clatter his stumps as England’s second innings ends on 68 to complete their innings defeat. Photograph: Darrian Traynor/Cricket Australia/Getty Images Source:Theguardian It’s vaguely amusing to recall now that for much of the year, the very existence of this Ashes series was the subject of fraught, board-level speculation. Tense negotiations were conducted between Cricket Australia and their counterparts in England. State governments, federal government, public health experts and players all had to bestow their approval. Would the 2021-22 Ashes happen at all? Well, as it turned out, not really. Around 850 overs separated the dismissal of Rory Burns on the first morning in Brisbane and the dismissal of Jimmy Anderson on the third morning in Melbourne: the series decided in a little over nine days of cricket. And so as the victorious Australians ...