I think that’s fair. A match for which five days is budgeted wrapped up within two days does feel like it’s not going precisely as maybe you might hope. Some terrific bowling, Australia are unusually fragile with the bat, England traditionally fragile with the bat.

As an occasional watcher, and someone just following by text, would it fair to say, what the fuck was that match? No-one could bat, and then one guy was really good at batting and wrapped the whole thing up in an hour?

Beer match. Mixed teams, youngest on each side captains, reverse the batting order.

I think with the over rate point penalties it really will be 6-0

I went 6-0. I figured the last test would be so humbling it would count as 2

Something something let women play some test matches please something

"Straight pulling Archer over his head for 6..."

Just like Geoffrey Boycott used to.

“Oh FFS, SOMEBODY has to bat!”
- Travis Head, probably

To be fair, when Stokes was first selected for England I said he was only the fifth best bowler for Durham. And that selection turned out OK.