Woakes dropped again, with Bairstow in they should have kept woakes and binned off Buttler.
Cue a Buttler ton probably
Covid in the family group could this be the saviour for England
Saved by the snicko. How thin was that?
Typical. Wake up to see how much Australia are ahead, realise it's actually not that much. "hang on!" I thought to myself. "We could have a chance here!"
Then I see the England score. No chance at all. We really are so pathetically crap....
Also think it's a side that mentally can't cope with aggressive opponents or playing conditions that don't favour them and it's been this way a while in red ball cricket.What you’re seeing is a group that has no belief in their ability, just like so many touring England sides before them.
Also think it's a side that mentally can't cope with aggressive opponents or playing conditions that don't favour them and it's been this way a while in red ball cricket.
I know it's a bit chalk and cheese but Morgan would be pushing/laying into his players and you rarely see the white ball side show such mental frailties hence their successes
What you’re seeing is a group that has no belief in their ability, just like so many touring England sides before them.
It’s partly lack of preparation aa tours now are so condensed and a lot of sides are poor away from home
When was the last time Crawley even batted? It’s his first game in Australia opening in a test match. Never going to work.
We haven’t regained the ashes since Illingworth was captain in Australia and before that the last one was Douglas Jardine!
We have won series there since Illingworth’s time though. Strauss’ all conquering side of 2010/11 for one.
The current England set up reminds me a bit of Sunday cricket with everyone having a go at opening, the rest deciding the order and no worries if you’re out quick. Well I say that, my Sunday captain gets angrier than Joe Root
Very few of these batsmen have played in Australia. No real warm up games - previously teams would play a round of matches against proper sides to acclimatise - it’s an almost impossible ask and a very predictable outcome.
I’d have stuck with Burns as at least he has some guts and got Malan to open - he does in reality anyway but we don’t have great openers. We should have offered Cook a wedge of cash to get out there one last time
Would you accept such an offer in Cook’s position? I wouldn’t.
All this is really just window dressing around a red ball system that just isn’t fit for the age it finds itself in. Simply put not enough English players really care about this format to seriously pursue it over the bigger money and stupid kits of white ball. Rather than Cook I’d be looking to use cash to offer some better incentives
And of course they care.
Root, stokes Bairstow are test players. Pope is more of a 5 day specialist as is Crawley but he’s struggling .
The bowlers are test bowlers. Buttler dug in for hours in the last test but is out of form. The reality is we just haven’t found a quality opening partnership or a real number 3 at all and we are always then on the slide.
You’re talking about a handful of players rather than the system that’s supposed to be producing them
We were third in the world in the last period for the league format and really your starting to sound a bit like Fred Truman
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This isn’t a comment on ECB elitism-the County Championship and red ball setup have clearly been neglected in favour of ridiculous competitions like the Hundred
Not really. Like it or not the one day format pays for counties to exist. Without that cricket would die - one day cricket in reality is more important and props up the long version which certainly here is not as popular.
T20 has saved cricket
All formats exist in each of the successful top nations so that cannot be used as an excuse, what can be, is too much test cricket squeezed into a smaller timetable with so many other competitions now and virtually every away test side just rocking up before the first test and expecting to win.
away teams don’t win many series, pitches play a big part but 3/4 proper warm up games could make it more interesting but with BBL, the Aussies don’t offer the games now so not possible
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