The Ashes
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We should literally just pack up and go home. In nearly 18 years of following cricket I can’t recall a worse string of performances than on this tour. Hopefully SA v India is a better watch today.
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Extras are England’s third top scorer this calendar year….
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Is it because we play too much limited over cricket and the batsmen are trying to score off every ball ?
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So feel sorry for the bowlers. That’s the second decent bowling performance in a row and tbh the other ones weren’t bad just terrible fielding and captaincy. They’re basically wasting their effort with the batsman root aside falling over every time.
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A total embarrassment.
England bowled out for just 68 runs.
Australia retain The Ashes.
Bring them home now and please loose Chris Silverwood on the way so that he never coaches an England team again.
England bowled out for just 68 runs.
Australia retain The Ashes.
Bring them home now and please loose Chris Silverwood on the way so that he never coaches an England team again.
England 2nd Innings
| Extras | 0nb 0w 0b 5lb | 5 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | (27.4 overs) | 68 all out | ||||||
| Batter | How Out | Bowler | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Mins | SR |
| Hameed | c Carey | b Boland | 7 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 52 | 22.58 |
| Crawley | c Carey | b Starc | 5 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 31.25 |
| Malan | lbw | b Starc | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 |
| Root | c Warner | b Boland | 28 | 59 | 4 | 0 | 101 | 47.46 |
| Leach | b Boland | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | |
| Stokes | b Starc | 11 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 68.75 | |
| Bairstow | lbw | b Boland | 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 27.78 |
| Buttler | not out | 5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 35.71 | |
| Wood | c & b Boland | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.00 | |
| Robinson | c Labuschagne | b Boland | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 |
| Anderson | b Green | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 50.00 |
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Much as I like "Spoons" for his work at Essex I feel that he may be fighting a losing battle at the England camp... his coaching and inspiration was fantastic when he was with us... but then he had a young team to mold and inspire. At England he has a group of players who are struggling with form and either cannot find the mental strength to stay at the crease or just cannot be arsed when things get on top...
Foakes should be playing... a man who bats well and was taught by the best keeper in the world (I'm biased) Dan Lawrence, effective spin bowler and good batsman, (again I'm biased) but there are other youngster who deserve a shot... we are playing bowlers who are carrying niggles and have to be rotated out of the attack... its bleedin' embarrassing is what it is and sadly I think "Spoons" will take the blame for it
Foakes should be playing... a man who bats well and was taught by the best keeper in the world (I'm biased) Dan Lawrence, effective spin bowler and good batsman, (again I'm biased) but there are other youngster who deserve a shot... we are playing bowlers who are carrying niggles and have to be rotated out of the attack... its bleedin' embarrassing is what it is and sadly I think "Spoons" will take the blame for it
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You have to be worried when they find it difficult to find two good opening batsmen.
I like Butler keeping wicket in a limited overs match but at test level you want a front line keeper and Foakes did nothing wrong in his few games.
Stupid idea taking a player on a tour who had no cricket for a number of months like Stokes, both his batting and bowling were both below par.
It is discouraging for the fans to see that the best bowler in the team is 39 years old and at the end of his test career. It must be so for Anderson himself when he bowls for less than 2.5 runs per over and the younger "future" leaders of the attack go for 3.5 - 4.5 runs an over.
I like Butler keeping wicket in a limited overs match but at test level you want a front line keeper and Foakes did nothing wrong in his few games.
Stupid idea taking a player on a tour who had no cricket for a number of months like Stokes, both his batting and bowling were both below par.
It is discouraging for the fans to see that the best bowler in the team is 39 years old and at the end of his test career. It must be so for Anderson himself when he bowls for less than 2.5 runs per over and the younger "future" leaders of the attack go for 3.5 - 4.5 runs an over.
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A worrying thing now is that out of 11 only root, stokes, Anderson and Robinson are definitively first choice! Can’t be many teams that can you say they know 4 of their best team. I guess the last seamer spot is just a horses for courses pick between broad, woakes, wood etc so that’s fair enough but very worrying about the rest of the team.
Butler has to go and whilst I wouldn’t be against giving bairstow one last run as keeper it’s surely got to be time to give foakes a run. Then spinner wise I think it’s time to give someone young like Parkinson or Bess a run as is leach really going to get much better in his 30s. Then the batting is really concerning. If the guy that averages 60 in county cricket with a flawless technique and has looked like a world beater at times has now lost the plot how on earth are we finding 4 more batsman!
Butler has to go and whilst I wouldn’t be against giving bairstow one last run as keeper it’s surely got to be time to give foakes a run. Then spinner wise I think it’s time to give someone young like Parkinson or Bess a run as is leach really going to get much better in his 30s. Then the batting is really concerning. If the guy that averages 60 in county cricket with a flawless technique and has looked like a world beater at times has now lost the plot how on earth are we finding 4 more batsman!
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Its a poor state of affairs when we can't get a decent uninjured, in-form, team ready for the biggest test series on the cricket calendar... our selectors, captain and coach need to have a good long look at the young players available, and stop playing the same old same old bunch of niggle carrying, out of nick players...
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I honestly think that there is too much emphasis on limited overs cricket, the players are taught to go hell for leather from ball one and have lost the art of the forward/backward defensive and the leave... the majority of our wickets have gone to poor shot selection... rather than rip snorter bowling from the shackle-draggers... we need to get away from games like "The Hundred" (my views on that format are well known) and T20... get our players more in tune with the 4/5 day game, more forethought and less crash bang wallop
