GEORGE DOBELL AT EDGBASTON: This isn't village-green cricket. It's not the primary school egg and spoon. It's the Ashes. Losing is meant to sting and for many it will do so very much. Regaining the urn has just become significantly more difficult
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Posted by Alan Browning on 21/06/2023 at 17:23
Spot on George , was at Edgbaston on Saturday and Sunday and can say i was entertained but losing a game we should have won has taken a bit of the gloss off .
Posted by Matt Phillips on 21/06/2023 at 12:24
Hard to disagree with anything written here. I thought Broad and Robinson were fairly pedestrian in bowling to Cummins and Lyon, difficult pitch maybe, but they lacked creativity for me. Look at how Stokes dismissed Khawaja, slower ball out of nowhere. Has to be a question mark over Anderson for Lords, can he bowl across two Ashes innings at 40? Anyway, well done Australia, was a great Test match.
Posted by Marc Evans on 21/06/2023 at 11:51
Totally disagree with this. Test cricket is dying all over the world and needs spectacle to draw in new fans. As most fans only go to see 1 day of a test they need to see entertaining cricket. Playing orthodox test style like the Aussies will not do this. We should still have done enough to win having them on the ropes till that Cummins Lyon stand. Without our scoring rate ther match would have fizzled out into a draw, as the weather typically shortened play.
Posted by Roger Nash on 21/06/2023 at 03:21
George, you seem to have forgotten how bad the team was - and how much losing they did - when these same players played conventionally. If this style gets the best out of England’s best, it confounds the 1950s assumption that aggression and creativity are to the detriment of results.
Posted by Roger on 21/06/2023 at 03:18
George, you seem to have forgotten how bad the team was - and how much losing they did - when these same players played conventionally. If this style gets the best out of England’s best, it confounds the lazy assumption that aggression and creativity are to the detriment of results.
Posted by Jon w on 21/06/2023 at 01:47
Game of inches etc if it wasn’t for pat cummins innings England won in what would have been described as brilliant tactical play . Rishabh pant did this to Australia a couple of years ago. T20 has made lots of players much better death batters judging the pace and level of aggression needed. A draw was more beneficial to Australia so going for win correct call just a bit of bad luck Cummins had a blinder - into next game with both teams having sone adjusting . England was tactically ahead for most of the match Australia looked flummoxed and confused at times coping with bazball
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