ANALYSIS: 'Australia can win the Ashes on day four at Headingley, but will need a memorable performance to do so. Still, in a series so tight, a better opportunity may never come,' Dean Bilton writes.
As we passed the halfway point of these Ashes, there were some battered and bruised boys watching the rain in those Headingley change rooms.
It allowed us a fantastic evening session, one that largely belonged to England but saw Travis Head belt just enough runs to set up a grandstand day four. Australia is behind the game but still within touching distance of securing a series win at Headingley. If the Aussies miss that opportunity, there is no guarantee they will get another.Such has been the evenness of this series, which so far has been separated by the finest of margins. Catches held and dropped, tail-end runs plundered and squandered. When talent and desire is distributed as equally as this, details are all that matters.
It is likely that the next time Australia travels to England for an Ashes series, it will do so without Usman Khawaja, David Warner, Steve Smith, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Scott Boland. For an entire generation, it's now or never. It was there in Lyon's tears as his injury took him from the series at Lord's, and you could argue some of Warner's woes are a symptom of simply trying too hard. The quiet desperation within this Australian team has driven it to great heights, but it comes at a cost.
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