Men’s Ashes Fourth Test Report Card, Day One

Featuring weather-related weirdness, boo elimination and undead swamp elves

Weather-Related Weirdness
Grade: A-

With heavy rain forecast for the fourth and fifth days of the Test, and Australia needing only a draw to retain the Ashes, every single lover of cricket - and particularly Bazball-style cricket - let out an enraged scream when Pat Cummins once again called the toss wrong.

For it meant that Ben Stokes could opt to bowl fi…