Darkness looms as Ashes embers burn bright

Oh dear what a disaster BAD LIGHT STOPS PLAY

Poor Michael Clarke, Pup was apoplectic. Well you can't really blame him can you? After all if ever a deck of cards were stacked against you now seems to be the time don't you think? The DRS isn't working or rather the third umpire seems blind, the crowd love a pantomime villain and David Warner uses up a review in the first innings and then low and behold Pup runs out Steve Smith. Then the final insult when the umpires take them off for bad light. Not that I think it matters too much having looked at tomorrow's weather forecast but you can see the clear frustration.

However I think that this may all light up the next few moths for ironically all that is going wrong now may just be pointing the way for Australia to find their way out of the darkness. So England beware those Ashes may get too hot to handle. What was that old phrase about not poking a sleeping tiger with a stick?

Or should I say don't throw a punch at a Root?

I know, bad taste, but I have to say I am warming to David Warner. If there is one thing that you could be sure of the great Australian Teams is that they fought with a passion for the Baggy Green Cap and that is something that has been little in evidence in the last few years. In David Warner they may just have found another of those rough tough Australian characters who will give everything for those from down under. And that is a good thing for cricket or particularly Test Cricket.

The Ashes after all is the premier test competition but unfortunately that status in it's own right means that other countries have not had the same look in. How many other test series are 5 test series? Most other countries would prefer to have 15 one day internationals and 10 20/20 games to replace the 25 days that a 5 Tests series brings us. And therefore the Ashes must survive if Test Cricket is to survive.

We need pantomime villains, no doubt Broad will get the same reception as Warner did here when England play in Sydney but that is good for the game. At the end of the day there is nothing malicious about it or rather there shouldn't be.

Darkness may be looming but for the sake of cricket the Ashes embers must glow bright