ohhh the pain of defeat!! it is clearly still sore!!
just remember if Warne was captain, you would have won, so you can't blame the mint sucking!! Plus that is a myth that it makes a difference.
Not the pain of defeat - we did annihilate that same English team 5-0 barely 16 months later, so revenge was served - it is the wonder of hypocrisy.
Botham, Lamb etc went to court such was their belief that reverse swing was the product of Pakistani cheating, as it was "impossible" in Ian Bothams words for an old ball to swing in reverse fashion unless some tampering had taken place.
The English cricket public agreed with him.
Fast forward 13 years and the ball is suddenly reversing after only fifteen overs - with the aid of mints as confirmed by Marcus Trescothick in his autobiography - and ofcourse this is all pure English artistic genius.
It is funny that since then, bowlers are able to reverse the old ball, but no-one, ever again has been able to reverse the the new ball after only 14-15 overs like Flintoff and Jones were able to do that one summer. Not even Jones himself who bowled gun-barrell straight in later days after the mints expose.
No need for Warne to be captain to win that series by the way. As long as McGrath remained upright, England would never have won even one test.
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