“It’s time England stopped acting like the urn has just been stolen from their back pocket by a thief in the night,” Ben Horne writes in the Daily Telegraph
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Australia have retained the Ashes with a helping hand from the Manchester weather in a game where they felt the full force of Bazball. But, regardless of their position at Old Trafford when the elements closed in, they had gained an early foothold in the series with hard-fought wins at Edgbaston and at Lord’s.
After the second Test, Ben Stokes was adamant that it was a good position for England to be in, focusing the mind on the need for three consecutive victories to become just the second team to recover from 2-0 down to win an Ashes. They succeeded, by a…