ASHES TEST
Luckless England brace for uphill task in Adelaide
Adelaide — It is usually a sign of a day with few redeeming features when a coach rather than a player faces the media after play. Sunday’s appearance of England’s Trevor Bayliss was no exception. When rain forced an early end to day two of the second Ashes Test, England were 29/1 in reply to Australia’s 442/8 declared, having thrown their best at their hosts only to come off second best. Two DRS (Umpire Decision Review System) referrals that overturned what looked to the naked eye to be plumb lbw decisions off the bowling of the luckless James Anderson were symptomatic of a day where little went right for the tourists. When Alastair Cook and James Vince crashed into each other trying to take a catch to dismiss Shaun Marsh, who went on to make an unbeaten 126, memories of the 5-0 drubbing on the last Ashes tour Down Under started to surface. England are already 1-0 down after a 10-wicket defeat at the Gabba but a defiant Bayliss was not prepared to surrender to the gloom only two da...
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