Though I sense there was never much more than a bit of hope going into the final day and a little ironic entertainment at the end of the third day's play with the Aussies, having been in a position to enforce the follow-on ( that they didn't I thought more understandable than England's initial decision to bowl first ), then after wickets tumbled having Nathan Lyon come in as a night watchman and wasting time.
If the ball is not swinging,these two cannot take wickets, simple as. Look at the stats, both anderson and broad average under 30 in UK tests, but well over 30 abroad. Yes Anderson and Braod are amazing in UK, where the ball swings, but elsewhere in the world they are toothless.
These two should not be playing in the ashes, we should have played out and out quick bowlers.
If the ball is not swinging,these two cannot take wickets, simple as. Look at the stats, both anderson and broad average under 30 in UK tests, but well over 30 abroad. Yes Anderson and Braod are amazing in UK, where the ball swings, but elsewhere in the world they are toothless.
These two should not be playing in the ashes, we should have played out and out quick bowlers.
I'm not sure flat track bullies is the correct phrase
Name me a fit alternative quick bowler that we have and can select?
But yes you'ed have to find a few good enough genuine quick bowlers from underneath the Christmas tree before Anderson and Broad wouldn't warrant places. Even if England just had one or two here, they wouldn't be taking these two's places.
But yes you'ed have to find a few good enough genuine quick bowlers from underneath the Christmas tree before Anderson and Broad wouldn't warrant places. Even if England just had one or two here, they wouldn't be taking these two's places.
Need a decent policy from the ECB to allow crickets to play first class cricket in the best months, rather than play the majority of green wickets in April, May and September. It would at least allow spinners to develop if we played more of the matches in the warmer drier months...
However money talks and 20/20 takes priority....
76 run last wicket partnership, in which Jack Leach scored 1 ( but survived! ), and it's 1-1 rather than 0-2 and the Ashes retained by the Aussies.
People were talking about the tension for the next few hours when England were 245 for 4 chasing 359 for the win. So well done to these batsmen who took away the tension by then collapsing to 286 for 9. So that was that then ...
Whisper - Stokes was lbw not given and the Aussies had used up all their reviews. Aww. And during the mayhem they contributed by missing a run out chance and dropping a catch.
Stokes almost did something similar in the world cup, but ran out of partners.
When he is in the zone, he is just unbelievable. I saw him smash the SA attack at Cape Town for a big double hundred, where the crowd were ducking for cover every over.
