Steven Finn's Ashes verdict

Former fast bowler Steven Finn believes England have their best chance of winning in Australia in 15 years

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00:00England haven't won a test in Australia for 14 years which kind of is a nod

00:04towards how the challenge that these guys face whilst they're down there but

00:09yeah I really do think that this is England's best chance in 15 years to

00:13bring the Ashes' Earn home.

00:19As soon as you land in Australia you've got everyone is on you telling you that

00:24you're going to get hammered and yeah it's a really difficult place to tour

00:28but that's what makes succeeding there so much more satisfying if this England

00:32team win down there they'll go down his history as one of the few teams that have

00:36won in Australia so the sense of optimism and opportunity I think when you embark

00:42on a tour like this are the things that set it aside from from other series that

00:46you play as an England cricketer there's a degree of turbulence in the Australia

00:54camp in terms of not exactly knowing their lineup going into the first test

00:58their captain Pat Cummins is missing so you have those caveats that come along

01:02with it but if you use that as giving you a lift I think you then underestimate

01:05the person who's coming in to take his place and Scott Boland we must remember

01:09bold England out for very low totals in the last Ashes series down under so

01:15England would not want to celebrate Pat Cummins not being there because of the

01:20depth that Australia have

01:23there was a slight change in rhetoric in the summer towards England's attitude

01:31towards playing cricket I don't like using the term basball because Stokes and

01:34McCollum don't like using it but I think that the manner in which they play they

01:38tempered slightly this summer and I think that they benefited from playing

01:42situations better as opposed to just playing one way and in one gear the whole

01:47time being able to shift it up and down those gears is an important element of

01:51being good at test match cricket and I think Stokes and McCollum both recognized

01:54that at the beginning of the 20-25 summer and I think that that will bode

01:59them well going into the Ashes as well

02:00I think it's gonna be a really tight series I think there's going to be

02:07significant flash points within games that the team that wins those pressure

02:12moments and stays calm in those moments and isn't overawed by the situation

02:16will be the team that comes out on the right side of the result at the end of the

02:19series so I think it'll be 3-2 either way and I think it could very well be 3-2 to England