Australia's openers have been worse than England's, no?
I mean, I've only kept an eye on the scores with this series, but it does seem like Smith has been the only real difference in quality between the two sides.
It’s obvious the Aussies cheated during the last Ashes, they were done for it the very next series and that reverse swing they got against us was very dodgy. I’m sure they cheated this series too, we just haven’t discovered how they did so yet.
Ball tampering, hobbling Anderson, Peter Siddle operating a belt sander on the ball whilst on twelfth man duty, radiation projected onto our dressing room to make the entire team play like cabbages, bringing Don Bradman back to life in some macabre scientific experiment then injecting his DNA into the body of Steve Smith ... there’s some shenanigans going on here, we just have to discover what.
Hopefully the ICC will step in and award both series to us.
It may be that my town gets a team which helps and that the team will have better players playing than normally play. I think it should be cool to see games with these squads.