Third Test, Day 5, Adelaide Oval; After the Christmas Test - there ain't no sanity clause

 

I guess most of us have by now have read all the reports on the match today and commentary on what losing this series means. So I don't need to repeat that here, but here is the piece by Stephan Shemilt on the BBC interweb site which is worth a read if you're late catching up.

The urn at Lord's

I  had occasional thoughts that we might just pull this off when Jamie Smith and Will Jacks were going so well.

Smith and Jacks doing their best

In this series we have had three problems. 1) our batting isn't good enough, 2) our bowling isnt good enough, and 3) our fielding isn't good enough. But apart from that.. But in summary in this match if Duckett and Pope had done their job, we might well have won with a record run chase.

There aren't many highlights, but Jofra Archer has had his name added to the honours board for his 5-fer.

I posted previously about my tour of the Adelaide Oval earlier on the tour. The highlight for me, without getting my name on the honours board was going into the scoreboard. Here is a short video courtesy of the Barmy Army showing how it works.

I want to go on record in thanking Di, from the Adelaide support staff for looking after me in the ground

The author with the amazing Di (photo: Jim Robison).

With my commiseration donut in Aussie colours just to rub it in

So its now on to Melbourne where maybe I pick up another loyal reader..