The batting has looked a bit fragile for a while and Bell's excellence papered over the cracks in the summer. It's going to be a long series at this rate unless they get their act together and they can't rely on the bowlers to get them out of the mire every time on Aussie tracks.
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Trott is out of the tour for now with a stress related illness - not the first time this has been an issue apparently - I hope he gets through it as he has done before.
I guess Bairstow comes in instead - Root or Bell at 3 now ? A big call.
I guess Bairstow comes in instead - Root or Bell at 3 now ? A big call.
Humiliating defeat and with the Aussies at 132-6 it was all looking so good!
The batting is looking pretty inexperienced without Trott.
Root, Carberry, Bairstow, Stokes, Ballance all pretty green and Prior struggling to get it off the square.
At least if they select Balance they can keep up the usual ratio of English/southern Africa
The batting is looking pretty inexperienced without Trott.
Root, Carberry, Bairstow, Stokes, Ballance all pretty green and Prior struggling to get it off the square.
At least if they select Balance they can keep up the usual ratio of English/southern Africa
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Horrible. Felt a bit like old times: before 'the modern era', when I seemed to spend my life watching England teams taken apart by palpably in-a-different-class Aussies. Hard to see them coming back from that - it wasn't just the extent of the drubbing, it was the whole feel of it. We just never looked like competing. Other than Broad, none of our bowling seemed to trouble them in the least - Anderson didn't look threatening, Tremlett seemed rather going through the motions - worrying in a series match#1 - and poor old Swann seemed to be getting swatted away with something approaching disdain. And as for the batting...
As has been said, let's hope they succumb to a vicious bout of alcohol-fuelled internecine savagery. They have to self-destruct if we're to have a hope - I can't see anything in England that suggests an ability to destroy them.
As has been said, let's hope they succumb to a vicious bout of alcohol-fuelled internecine savagery. They have to self-destruct if we're to have a hope - I can't see anything in England that suggests an ability to destroy them.
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Really poor display. The Australian supporters are pretty nasty just IMHO, would be nice if England could put in some decent performances to shut them up. I doubt they will though with the fragile batting line-up that they have.
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I think its time to back these guys up myself - it's the way of the Barmy Army to stick with the team through thick and thin.
England often start series slowly and despite losing this match badly, they are only 1-0 down. Cook, Root, Bell and Carberry did seem to handle the Aussie bowling at some point in the game. They need to up the level again and get more out of KP, Prior + Trott replacement.
Nothing too wrong with the first innings bowling. Second innings was always going to be tough as the pitch improved and since the bowlers hadn't enough time to rest. All 4 bowlers can improve though with game time.
England often start series slowly and despite losing this match badly, they are only 1-0 down. Cook, Root, Bell and Carberry did seem to handle the Aussie bowling at some point in the game. They need to up the level again and get more out of KP, Prior + Trott replacement.
Nothing too wrong with the first innings bowling. Second innings was always going to be tough as the pitch improved and since the bowlers hadn't enough time to rest. All 4 bowlers can improve though with game time.
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Not nice to lose, but if I was playing in a team, I would want to positively humiliate / annhialate the opposition - twas ever thus. Never resorted to sledging though - even though it snowed once or twice when I used to play.
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I'm clinging to the thought that we were soundly beaten by India in the first test last year...
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I haven't written them off yet but they've played little or no cricket for a couple of months and the warm-up games were insufficient.
It's a marked contrast to the familiarisation we allow touring sides over here.
dare I say that England are under-Cooked
It's a marked contrast to the familiarisation we allow touring sides over here.
dare I say that England are under-Cooked
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You could do...but it sautés the men from the boys for sure. (Corn on the cobber all the way here, at Not The Test Match Special, with Jonathan Agneau)I haven't written them off yet but they've played little or no cricket for a couple of months and the warm-up games were insufficient.
It's a marked contrast to the familiarisation we allow touring sides over here.
dare I say that England are under-Cooked
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Fair comment from some journo called Mike Walters on The Mirror's site:
There is only one thing worse than sore losers in sport - and that's graceless winners.
Australian captain Michael Clarke's weasel sledging of Jimmy Anderson - "Get ready for a broken f****** arm" - in the dying throes of England's pathetic defeat, was charmless snarling unworthy of a Test captain.
Have to say, they do seems a singularly unlovely crop this time round - both players and fans. I mean, Aussies have never exactly been noted for their charm & social graces (a fact in which they seem to take a sneering lowlife pride) but the 2013 crop leaves a particularly sour taste in the mouth.
There is only one thing worse than sore losers in sport - and that's graceless winners.
Australian captain Michael Clarke's weasel sledging of Jimmy Anderson - "Get ready for a broken f****** arm" - in the dying throes of England's pathetic defeat, was charmless snarling unworthy of a Test captain.
Have to say, they do seems a singularly unlovely crop this time round - both players and fans. I mean, Aussies have never exactly been noted for their charm & social graces (a fact in which they seem to take a sneering lowlife pride) but the 2013 crop leaves a particularly sour taste in the mouth.
