If bodyline bowling is all he Poms have left to enable them to win? Then why don't we allow the batmen to return serve and run down the wicket and try and bash the brains out of the bowlers?

This used to by a gentleman's game played in the name of rules-based ethical sport! Where the best team with the best tactics took the day.

Now there is huge money involved, Bookies and it has become, like many other "sports" a gladiatorial contest that has little to do with sport or a (fair go) game! Just a win at any cost, contest between enemies?

We used to say, that's hardly cricket when we saw unfair treatment or cheating or somesuch Nowadays we could say, I believe, That's so much like cricket if we observed the illuded to, foregoing.

And for our part, we need to bring back the sandshoe crusher! After all it's hard to hurt a pom by hitting them in the head, nothing up there to hurt? I wonder how fast Archer would bowl with a broken tootsie?

Remember, being hit on the full on the foot is almost always a deadset LBW! And hardly ever going to result in a tragedy!

Anyhow, we're one up and only need to win one more to bring home the precious (Jewel in the cricketing crown) ashes, and welcome!
Alan B.

it just ain't cricket!