If it was wide assumed the touring England enactment is exhausted, it's present been confirmed by superstar bowler James Anderson.
The 39-year-old added 4 wickets to his Test vocation tally - already a grounds for astir by a accelerated bowler successful past - but it wasn't his assemblage connection connected the tract that gave thing away.
It was his reply to an unexpected and somewhat bizarre question post-play that gave the champion penetration into the nightmare Anderson - and England - is surviving successful Australia.
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The tourists person been beaten convincingly successful Brisbane and successful Adelaide, and are staring astatine different catastrophic decision successful Melbourne aft losing 4 wickets successful the last hr of Day 2.
Anderson fronted up to media aft stumps.
The past question enactment to him was the trickiest and champion of the lot.
"Are you enjoying this?" the newsman quizzed.
Anderson, looking a small stunned, smirked and replied, "the property conference?".
He past gave the writer precisely what was sought.
"Look, it's been a pugnacious circuit truthful far. But it ever is here, it's ne'er elemental oregon plain sailing, there's ever worldly going on," Anderson said.
"I've got the accidental to enactment an England garment on, truthful I'm enjoying that. I perfectly emotion doing that each clip I get the opportunity.
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"We would emotion the results to beryllium going better, and the performances to beryllium better. But that's thing that tin happen, we'll support moving hard and hopefully it volition get amended astatine immoderate stage."
Anderson and Stuart Broad are England's champion 2 accelerated bowlers, ever.
They were bizarrely some near retired of the bid opener successful Brisbane. They were recalled to play successful Adelaide, but past Broad was again dropped for the MCG tie.
Anderson was asked whether helium would person been acceptable capable to play astatine the Gabba, which England mislaid severely wherever they needed experienced accelerated bowlers.
"That's a bully question. I felt I was acceptable for that game," Anderson said.
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"But a determination was made that I miss the game. There's nary constituent talking astir that now.
"I did consciousness a small spot rusty astatine Adelaide, didn't consciousness successful large bushed passim the game. That's ever the case, it's hard arsenic a bowler to effort deed the crushed moving each the time, nary substance however experienced you are.
"I'm conscionable blessed that I've felt a batch amended this crippled and I managed to get immoderate wickets.
"Who knows if I could person played (in Brisbane) due to the fact that I wasn't picked, but I felt fit, yeah."
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