Was it really just bad luck for England? | TGCRaw Teaser
The Grade Cricketer
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do I regret saying that? No. I don't think individually they are better, they are better than any other team since 2010-11, but they've been relentless in the pressure they've managed to put on England. Well, he is good, isn't he? He's good and he knows what he's doing. Let's continue to pick up the carcass ahead of Christmas. I don't know what day of the week it is. I don't know when this is coming out, but I'm sorry for the day that it is coming out because |
| 0:23.4 | it won't be a Friday. You don't give a fuck either. It's going to set you off. That's the game. The game is the game. We move. Let's continue to pick up the carcass though and things being said because some of the conversation now is about where the ashes have been won and lost. You know, the moments |
| 0:37.7 | of the games, you know, all the way back from the schedule to the |
| 0:42.1 | English run out of Stokes, to some great catches, to some sloppy batting. |
| 0:46.1 | But perhaps the Ashes was lost when Australia was invented as a concept by the Dutch. |
| 0:57.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:59.7 | When the whites saw the land, it's like now it exists. |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah, it's right. |
| 1:04.7 | Teranallius. |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah, and I use a Latin term to describe what it was prior to that. |
| 1:09.4 | Now, I disagree. |
| 1:11.7 | I thought it was lost at the toss. |
| 1:13.0 | I just thought Australia won a crucial toss in Adelaide. |
| 1:15.5 | Well, they lost the first so crucially. |
| 1:17.7 | I agree with Stokesy. |
| 1:19.6 | Yep. |
| 1:20.1 | That he would swap the two tosses he won in games that he lost to win this toss, |
| 1:25.1 | which allowed his team the opportunity to bat in 38 degrees. |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.8 | Now, I found it really interesting that he was essentially pointing to a desertion of luck |
| 1:38.7 | as the reason they're down 3-0. |
| 1:42.0 | Like, luck deserting them when they're playing an opposition |
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