Mitchell Johnson reflects on ‘strange’ Ashes 2015 series in England

The Ashes 2015 series witnessed extreme results in all games.

Mitchell Johnson who was involved in Australia‘s 2-3 Ashes 2015 series loss to England has labelled the series as a ‘strange’ one owing to the extreme nature of results in all games. Australia won their quota of two games at Lord’s and at Oval by humongous margins, whereas England consigned Australia to similar fates in the three remaining games. Even though the series scoreline of 2-3 suggests a highly combative series, that can’t be further from the truth as every game ended in extremely lop-sided results. Although Australia were at the receiving end in one game extra as compared to England, Johnson felt Australia were the better side. Ashes 2015: One-sided results stole the sheen

“I thought we had a better side,” Johnson was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au. “I think after that second test at Lord’s (where Australia won by 405 runs) we were probably a little bit overconfident maybe. They outperformed us in certain areas but they sort of played very similar cricket to what we did – one team would dominate and the other team would fold. It was a very strange series.”

The skipper in that series Michael Clarke, who later retired mirrored Johnson’s view. “(The Ashes) was extremely inconsistent from both parties,” Clarke said on Wide World of Sports. You look at the way we played at Lord’s and The Oval, we really outplayed England in those two Test matches. Unfortunately in the other three it was the opposite,” Clarke said. ALSO READ: Marks out of 10 for Australia in Ashes 2015

Clarke maintains that Autralia’s motive to be a strong performer overseas remains a significant goal remained to be achieved. “As a team we spoke before the West Indies and England about being more consistent away from home and I think that will still be our greatest challenge as an Australian team moving forward,” Pup said.