Ashes 2021-22: Battling England succumb as Australia clinch second Test by 275 runs
FirstpostAustralia ground down a battling England to win the second Test in Adelaide Monday and go 2-0 up in the Ashes series, leaving the visitors’ dreams of winning back the hallowed urn in tatters. Adelaide: Australia ground down a battling England to win the second Test in Adelaide Monday and go 2-0 up in the Ashes series, leaving the visitors’ dreams of winning back the hallowed urn in tatters. Joe Root’s men will head to Melbourne for the Boxing Day Test starting Sunday knowing that the only instance of a team coming from 2-0 down to win the Ashes was Donald Bradman’s Australia way back in 1936-37. Wrong picks England’s chances of victory had been nigh on impossible - no team had ever posted such a big fourth innings score to win in Test cricket history, with the West Indies’ 418 for seven in beating Steve Waugh’s Australia at St John’s in 2003 the highest.