'Not ideal' - Smith and Stokes unhappy with the Melbourne pitch - video Dailymotion

Steve Smith and Ben Stokes admit the fourth Ashes Test ending in two days is not a good look for Test cricket.

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00:00In terms of the wicket, obviously it was a tricky one.

00:0436 wickets over two days, probably offered just a little bit too much.

00:11You know, it's tough as a groundsman. I think he's always looking for the right sort of balance,

00:17I suppose. You know, groundsmen are always learning and yeah, he'll probably take something

00:23from that, no doubt. If I'm being brutally honest, that's not really what you want.

00:27You know, a Boxing Day Test match, you don't want a game finishing less than two days.

00:33Not ideal, but you can't change it once you start the game and you've just got to play what's in front

00:38of you. But I'm pretty sure if that was somewhere else in the world, everything, you know, would be hell on.