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The Sports Desk / Re: Ashes 2019
Thoughts of home taking precedence over pride in one’s performance?
You must be right, Matthew Wade threw the towel in.
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Thoughts of home taking precedence over pride in one’s performance?
Purcovski will be one.
It's pretty obvious a change in player attitude, some of the Poms have thrown caution to the wind while others look disinterested. Half our team were asleep in the field, it's just a show!
The bowlers will be hoping our batsmen makes 750 so they never have to take the field again!
It's a dead rubber, we should have used it for training or experience to build list depth!
We've won The Ashes, primarily that's all that matters, we can try to win the series as a bonus but it doesn't change The Ashes result.
Winning this test might be like winning a ODI series with a clean sweep, nice but not necessary! As I said earlier I would have used this test to give a bowler like Behrendorff or Lloyd Pope a taste of the big stage to see if they can step up. Especially, given the fragility and age of many of our current bowlers, getting experience into some youth or backup players is invaluable! Why the feck not give Carey a run, it's not like he doesn't deserve it? (I best recommend that to our coach! )
Secondly, you have the opportunity to put Root to the sword if he finishes the series leading a team beaten by the backups!
By the way, I hope Warner takes a leaf out of Buttler's book, and hammers his way into some form rather than blocking his way to oblivion!
Firstly, I think adjusted point 3 is correct.
Secondly, the Siddle selection assertion might be correct, it's a nothing game really and most of the Aussie squad would be flat from hangovers. So a farewell to The Ashes, given Siddle won't get a run in the Australian leg, probably!
So, did Starc do enough to stay in the side for the next test?
Bancroft had every right to be picked, do your homework JH:
17, 93* Hick XII v Haddin XII Southampton 23 Jul 2019 Other
8, 28 Durham v Worcs Chester-le-Street 13 Jul 2019 FC
36, 109 Durham v Leics Leicester 7 Jul 2019 FC
77, 92* Durham v Lancashire Sedbergh 30 Jun 2019 FC
158, 5 Durham v Sussex Hove 24 Jun 2019 FC
It’s interesting that we seem to be picking bowlers on form and pitch but remain reluctant to change the batsmen ?
I think Starc is more like Mitch Johnson in that he needs to come in first change so he can better control the ball.
Did Archer manage to bowl one over 140 this Test yet?
Without Smith (and young Marnus) we would be laughable....