England finally ended their 15-year drought in Australia by winning the fourth Ashes Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The match itself has since been deemed as a farce, with a bowler-friendly pitch producing a two-day Test. However, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has said that the way in which the batting lineups on both sides collapsed showed how it is increasingly difficult for batters to play the long-game in red-ball cricket, having come to being used to scoring quickly in the white-ball formats. Gavaskar also took a shot at England captain Ben Stokes for his comments earlier in the series, while stating that the win in the fourth Test shows that the visitors would’ve been better served had they played some first class cricket before the series started. “England’s win, even though it came in the fourth Test with the series already lost, does prove once again that the more you play, the better you will get, especially in unfamiliar overseas conditions,” said Gavaskar in his column for SportStar. “The point, therefore, is should …