AS openings go, it could not really have been much worse for England in the first Ashes Test against Australia in Perth.

Defeat by eight wickets inside two days – the first time an Ashes Test match has lasted so long in over 100 years – tells a sorry tale.

But, there is hope, according to The Yorkshire Post’s cricket correspondent Chris Waters, who joins CricketTalk host Phil Harrison to pick over the bones of what happened at the Optus Stadium on Friday and Saturday, while offering hope for the second Test in Brisbane, which gets underway on December 4, and the three games remaining after that in the series.

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