Nothing wrong with the wicket.
If you can't guts it out until lunch with no more than 3 wickets down, then something is wrong between your ears.
Some fine English bowling, but when every wicket is caught in the slips, it tells you about the mind set of a team.
Rule number on day one of a soft, greenish wicket is the play with soft hands and LATE. T20 style hard hands will only lead to disaster.
Admittedly, Clarke had no control of losing the toss here, but on similar conditions at Edgbaston he stupidly chose to bat, so it is somewhat poetic justice that he gets a double reminder here that it is not always an advantage to bat first.
The Ashes are gone again for another 18 months, and the players gave no one to blame but themselves.
Well played England.
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