England, Test and Ashes
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The total dominance by Australia in their own backyard finally came to an end after 14 years and over 5,400 days as England finally won an Ashes Test in Australia, that too a Boxing Day one in front of a jam-packed Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
Melbourne Cricket Ground staff have admitted the Boxing Day test pitch favored bowlers too heavily, leading to a two-day match with 36 wickets falling.
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England's soft underbelly exposed again as 20 Boxing Day wickets put MCG pitch in firing line
England's batters once again fall flat on their faces in the face of tricky conditions at the MCG for the Boxing Day Test.
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England pace bowler Gus Atkinson has joined the tourists' mounting injury toll after being ruled out for the fifth and final Ashes cricket test in Sydney with a hamstring injury. Atkinson pulled up lame during the second morning of the Boxing Day test and was officially ruled-out after scans on Monday confirmed the injury in his left leg.