10-year-old text exposes sickening England hypocrisy as rain continues

After solely 30 overs had been bowled on day 4, in the present day appears to be like more and more like being fully washed out as rain continues to fall in Manchester.

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You all know what which means – the urn might be staying in Australian palms. And the Poms are dealing with it about in addition to you’d count on.

1.20am – No signal of respite within the climate

Rain, rain and extra rain at Outdated Trafford.

12.40am – Puddles forming on the outfield

England will stretch this so long as is cheap, however absolutely we’re not too distant from the match being referred to as off as puddles kind on the outfield.

Whoever is managing the video board has a way of humour.

12am – 10-year-old tweet exposes hypocrisy

British media persona and cricket lover Piers Morgan has been, let’s assume, quite vocal about how disappointing it could be if England is denied a possibility to maintain the sequence alive in the present day.

“Will probably be the best travesty within the historical past of Ashes cricket if the trampled, battered, beleaguered, Bazballed, determined, white-flag-flying Aussies now keep away from inevitable defeat and retain the urn due to bloody rain,” he wrote forward of day 4.

However the web by no means forgets.

A ten-year-old Morgan tweet posted through the 2013 Ashes, which England retained by way of a washout within the Third Check, has been doing the rounds in the present day.

Then England captain Alastair Prepare dinner was just a little extra subdued when he described what he felt like within the dressing room that yr.

“It’s clearly a terrific feeling and a barely unusual feeling,” he stated. “It’s been a little bit of an odd day – the climate hasn’t been best and it hasn’t fairly received the ambiance due to that. However the feeling within the dressing room is a really nice one.”

Little question will probably be very nice within the Aussie sheds in the present day too if they will safe a draw.

However Morgan isn’t the one one complaining – or calling for change.

Former England captain Michael Atherton stated it “could be merciless” for the sequence to be determined on this style.

“You’ll be able to look again at occasions within the sequence the place England have missed alternatives with out a doubt … however simply taking a look at this recreation, England have completely hammered Australia up till now,” he stated.

“And it could be very merciless if two days of rain – in the midst of July – doesn’t permit them the chance to win this recreation.”

The Barmy Military posted this:

And Joe Root made the suggestion play ought to proceed till 10pm if that’s what it takes to get a outcome.

“It doesn’t get darkish right here in England till 10pm in the summertime, why can’t we simply play till we bowl the overs?” Root stated.

“There’s been loads of chat about not bowling the overs. There are such a lot of other ways of looking for alternatives to get as a lot play in as potential. At each alternative at each stage you need to be seeking to discover methods to get the Check on. We batted in worse situations at Edgbaston, however that’s cricket. You simply need consistency in these situations.”

The BBC’s Henry Moeran backed the decision. “What’s cricket for if not for leisure?” he tweeted. “Why does play want to begin as late as 11? Why should it at all times cease at 6.30 when the solar is shining? Will in the present day be the day when long-held frustrations result in sensible adjustments?”

However as a substitute of clutching at straws maybe England must be taking a look at itself.

Why put together a batting paradise of a pitch for a match the place you wanted a outcome and had unhealthy climate forecast?

Three-and-a-half days of cricket have been performed, greater than sufficient time if the hosts had been ok.

Maybe if Jimmy Anderson might enhance his strike-rate from a wicket each 37 overs we wouldn’t be having this dialog?

And that’s earlier than we think about the alternatives missed within the first two Exams. And all the opposite matches and sequence in cricket historical past impacted by rain.

Give us a spell, please.

11.15pm – Rain solely getting heavier in Manchester

Play gained’t be beginning anytime quickly – if in any respect – because the rain continues to fall at Outdated Trafford.

8.59pm – Nonetheless raining, one other pitch inspection

It’s nonetheless raining in Manchester, however one other pitch inspection has been scheduled for 9.15pm AEST.

If play can start with no additional rain, then lunch might be taken at 9.20pm with play starting at 10pm AEST.

7.32pm – Pitch inspection

It isn’t raining at the moment at Outdated Trafford, however there may be some misty rain hovering across the floor.

A pitch inspection is scheduled for 8pm AEST, nevertheless it doesn’t seem like we’ll see any cricket anytime quickly.

7pm – Rain forecast is England’s worst nightmare

Simply when England began to dominate the Ashes, the UK’s pesky rain needed to wreak havoc on their hopes of pulling off a exceptional sequence comeback after turning the screws on Australia within the final two Exams.

All eyes are on Manchester’s climate forecast on Sunday, and it doesn’t make for fairly studying for England.

There’s a 90 per cent likelihood of rain within the Manchester forecast, so we would not see many overs bowled in any respect.

“Moist morning with heavy and chronic rain. Rain persevering with all through a lot of the day, turning considerably lighter and extra showery through the afternoon with some transient drier spells,” the Met Workplace forecast for Sunday.

Marnus Labuschagne stated there was “zero likelihood” Australia would declare to present England a goal to chase to win the sport.

England’s Stuart Broad stated it could be “unjust” for a rain-affected draw to resolve the Ashes.

“Sitting within the altering room watching the rain fall on Saturday, there was a sense it could be unjust if the climate had a decisive say as a result of it’s been such an unbelievable few weeks to be part of,” Broad wrote within the Day by day Mail.

“It will be such a moist squib, such an unemotional approach for a sequence between two nice rivals to be outlined.

“We simply want one other window to open to finish the job on Sunday.”