England Implode in Perth
Day Two in Perth delivered one of the wildest swings you’ll ever see in an Ashes Test. Geraint Jones and I break down how England went from total control at lunch to total chaos by stumps — and why Travis Head’s extraordinary counterattack flipped the match on its head.
We get into:
• The genius behind sending Travis Head in to open
• England’s batting problems: flat-footed drives, hard hands, no clarity
• Why the short-ball plan backfired
• The mental and physical hangover from Day One
• DRS confusion, frame-rates, and the five-minute review
• Keeper’s Eye: the view you only get from behind…
The skinny
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