Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 11:45 pmPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 7:50 amRik E Boy wrote:I've been watching Test cricket sine the days of Lillee and Thomson and the last time I saw such a complete lack of fight was when the Windies toured Australia and Brett Lee tore them a new one (2000?). But that West Indies side was pretty ordinary. England had no such excuse. Bell, Pieterson, Cook, Swann, Trott and Prior are quality players.
The experienced players really dropped the ball and dropped the younger blokes right in it. Cook battled hard but lost faith in his spinners and couldn't set a field in concrete. When your stock in trade is attritional, defensive cricket (which I mentioned in the England Ashes thread), it is very difficult to shift up a gear when confronted with an aggressive, confident opponent.
A good captain should be able to sum up the situation of a match and elect when to attack (which I believe is the way to go about 90% of the time) and when to defend. Cook and the English brains trust had no answer to what the Aussies dished out and a damming result is that they didn't get better at combatting what they knew was coming after the first test in Brisbane.
Beautiful.
regards,
REB
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 1:49 pmLaughingKookaburra wrote:Swannie can't keep his mouth shut. Even hints @ playing more Test Cricket.....
Bloke in his mid 30's running away from the game when the whips are cracking. Taking a quote from Rooters this bloke is an "A-Grade **** stick"
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 1:53 pmdaysofourlives wrote:LaughingKookaburra wrote:Swannie can't keep his mouth shut. Even hints @ playing more Test Cricket.....
Bloke in his mid 30's running away from the game when the whips are cracking. Taking a quote from Rooters this bloke is an "A-Grade **** stick"
I think Swan is a certainty to play more Test cricket. The retirement decision was always after being dropped for the Boxing Day Test. He will return much like Prior will in more favourable conditions at home. Absolute pi55 weak individual
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:42 pmtest wrote:
Your comment about their lack of fight is spot one. Being in Europe and due to the time differences I woke up (4th and 5th test only) to repeatedly find the poms failed, I'd go to bed thinking gee if the poms put in a good session or 2 here we could be in trouble but it never happened. They flat out laid down and I'm glad I'm in the mother land to let them know about it!!
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