‘I’d have shaken your arm off for 2-2’: The Pommy and the Aussie on ties, moral victories and who’ll be left in 2025-26

Ashes, eh? It depends how you like them.

Do you prefer your trophies won – or, at least, drawn – on the field? Or would you prefer them with a side of moralising, that you surely would have won if something else had happened?

Can’t we all be winners? Isn’t, at the end of the day, Mother Cricket the winner?

Well, no. That’s not how it works.

There’s been a lot of discussion about who actually won The Ashes, with opinions largely split between whether you wanted Australia to win or England to win. 

If only The Roar had been running a weekly column featuring one of each, where this could be all sorted out in the end…

Yes, the Pommy and the Aussie are back once again for a final spin around cricket’s greatest rivalry, with the now well-rested Tim Miller live from Melbourne and our resident moralist,