MELBOURNE, ‌Dec 27 : England batter Joe Root hailed his team's drought-breaking win in the Melbourne Ashes test on Saturday as a triumph of adaptation and nerve in a "fast-forward" match shaped by a treacherous pitch.England had lost the first three matches in the series but chased down 175 to win the fourt

MELBOURNE, Dec 27 : ‌It was a relieved Ben Stokes bidding good riddance to more than a decade of pain for English cricket in Australia on Saturday as his team rallied from the depths to complete a drought-breaking test win in Melbourne.Under fire after losing the first three Ashes tests, and amid reports of

Monty Panesar described Stokes as a "tired, broken man" during the press conference, but said he had gone on to give a defining performance.