England pacer Stuart Broad stated that it would be unjust if the ongoing fourth Ashes 2023 Test was decided by the inclement weather and that the hosts needed some luck to get a win over Australia and draw level in the five-Test series.

On Day 4, just 30 overs were possible, with the morning and evening sessions wiped out by the weather, as Australia finished 61 runs behind on 214-5 in its second innings. Marnus Labuschagne scored a brilliant 111 before getting out to Joe Root as Australia played out for time.

Before that England had scored 592 in reply to Australia’s first innings total of 317 with Zak Crawley making 189 and Jonny Bairstow making 99*.

“Sitting in the changing room watching the rain fall yesterday, there was a feeling it would be unjust if the weather had a decisive say. I have never felt the momentum has left us in this series because ultimately we played a brilliant game at Edgbaston, although Australia came out on top,” Broad wrote for the Daily Mail.

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“In our minds, we felt we played all the cricket — we declared on day one, bowled them out, and tried to set up a game to get a result. Yes, Australia got the first two results with victory at Lord’s too, but it didn’t feel like the impetus was with them, and Ben Stokes’s innings of 155 in the second Test galvanized us.

Getting within 43 runs created a do-or-die scenario and from then on we knew we had to get things exactly right. At Headingley, we were great and the first few days here we were brilliant,” he added.

Broad said if England won the fourth Test, it would set up for a fantastic finale at the Oval.

“If we can get to 2-2 it would set up the series just as I’d hoped it would. I said I would love to go to the Oval at 2-2, and I genuinely meant it,” he said.

(Daily Mail inputs)