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We won't improve until the County Championship is respected.
I was told that that a player who'd scored a lot of CC runs was not rated because the top brass don't recognise the competition as a test.

So what do our players do?
Players needs to go and work on technique.
But we know the standard is shite, so they'll score runs, be back in and we'll fail again.
 
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Archer has been England's only positive in this wretched series, looking like a genuine all-rounder.

I feel sorry for Jacks, he's not a full-time spinner and he's being very poorly led by his captain, and coach.

As for the seam attack, what on earth is all this short pitched nonsense? Aiming at the stumps seems to pay dividends for most teams, head height lollipops on the leg-side would only work against morons like (insert name of England batsman here).

Poor selection, poor tactics, poor performances and we are getting what we deserve from a good but not spectacular Australian team.
 
Ysabel 123 said:
They should let Archer practice his bouncers in the nets on Pope, Ducket and Crawley in their mid test beach wear, I'm sure that would make them concentrate on shot choice!

Archer, Stokes and Root are the 'senior' players in this squad (Archer and Stokes are doing all they can to not let injuries and pain beat them)! This squad is full of young shit bags! We don't have a single player who would be willing to square upto anyone of the Aussies. Compare that to 2005, Hoggard, Flintoff, Jones, Harmison, Pieterson and Collingwood made a point of not being scared!
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That was a home series though. Most of those players went Down Under 15 months later and we got spanked 5-0.

People blaming Bazball for what’s looking like yet another heavy Ashes series defeat away from home seem to have conveniently forgotten that whatever style of cricket we play tends to result in a twatting when playing Australia on their home turf. 2010-11 aside of course but funnily enough we won that series playing largely positive front foot cricket. In any case, I’ve not seen much evidence of Bazball at times in this series from England. Most of our top order in the first innings of this test have gotten out playing defensive shots rather than attacking shots, and the run rates in England’s innings have been way below Bazball rates. If anything, Australia have hijacked the approach (while we’ve gone back into our shells), making leftfield decisions like making Head an opener who has then gone on to twat the ball to all comers of the ground at a rate that peak Bazball England would be proud of.
 
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The spinner situation has been so mismanaged! Maybe Bashir injury of breaking his finger and he has come back not the same? If so we should have brought in another spinner not a part timer! England obsessed with every Bowles needing to bat!
 
The spinner issue has been there for years, but they persisted with an all-seam attack season after season, so they can hardly plead innocence and surprise when it is exposed yet again.
 
waspish said:
The spinner situation has been so mismanaged! Maybe Bashir injury of breaking his finger and he has come back not the same? If so we should have brought in another spinner not a part timer! England obsessed with every Bowles needing to bat!
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The broken finger was on the other hand not the bowling hand
 
The Aussies are playing with us just like a game of cat and mouse, knowing death is controlled when the cat has had enough. England are laughable, predictable, incapable, and clueless. How can anybody defend Stokes and Brendon Mccullum or any of the coaching staff after this are also clueless

BBC Test Match Special tuffers and Aggers were defending both and saying they don't want change ??
I think they have had their chains pulled in and told not to dig them out
 
ancoats said:
The Aussies are playing with us just like a game of cat and mouse, knowing death is controlled when the cat has had enough. England are laughable, predictable, incapable, and clueless. How can anybody defend Stokes and Brendon Mccullum or any of the coaching staff after this are also clueless

BBC Test Match Special tuffers and Aggers were defending both and saying they don't want change ??
I think they have had their chains pulled in and told not to dig them out
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An amazing comeback beckons. Hmmm….
 
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