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Broad: How England will feel after drought-breaking MCG win
SEN • December 27th, 2025 7:41 pm
England great Stuart Broad has mixed feelings about his nation’s first Test win in Australia since 2011.
The Poms won inside two days during the fourth Test, with the deck playing huge tricks with all batters finding things difficult.
While the four-wicket victory is a drought-breaker, Broad was disappointed that it couldn’t have come earlier in the series with the Ashes already long gone with the Aussies going up 3-0 within three Tests.
Speaking about what the reaction might be like back home, Broad thinks that the travelling fans and players will take more out of it than those watching in England.
“I think it (the reaction) will be slightly mixed,” Broad said on SEN Cricket.
“I look over to the English fans now and they’ll have that emotion of being here and seeing England win away, singing the songs, having a few drinks with their friends.
“I think it will be positive in Australia and the English fans that travelled here.
“(But) I’m sure there would be a sense back home that it’s too little, too late in a way in the fact that the Ashes have gone in Adelaide last week.
“And if Australia weren’t 3-nil up, would Pat Cummins have played? Would Australia have played a stronger side?
“But ultimately, these players will be able to say that they have won a Test match in Australia, and they have had a brutal time of it.
“It’s such a strange Test series to have two Test matches that go for two days, it’s incredible.”
Australia now lead the 2025/26 Ashes series 3-1 as the series heads to Sydney for the New Year's Test on January 4.
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