Ashes 2025/6
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15 balls ago England would have felt pretty good. Now they are in the shit again
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@KiwiMurph said in Ashes 2025/6:
When do discussions about the worst English side ever to tour Australia begin?
Well, the two best batsmen in the world are at the crease so lets not get carried away
( EDIT: Oops, Brook has dropped to 4th )
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oof, 300 behind with 4 already in the shed is not ideal. Not your usual day game at Adelaide scorecard so far.
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once again Stokes is the one showing fight. He's faced the most deliveries in the series of any English batsman. He's bowled 51 overs and has the best average of any English bowler.
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At this stage I don't think you can blame Bazball, England are just mentally weak.
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@antipodean said in Ashes 2025/6:
At this stage I don't think you can blame Bazball, England are just mentally weak.
they're also not very good.
In the past two years yes they have won 12 tests, but that's because they play a lot of test cricket. They are behind both us and Sri Lanka in win percentage, a mile off South Africa in 2nd, and a light year behind Australia.
The buzz around this series is history and marketing. It's like the Bledisloe really.
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Cricket ranks 14th in the UK in sports 18-35 year olds like to watch and 16th in sports they are fans of.
Its viewership in the UK is still solid among older men, but youngsters prefer other sports.
The chasm between Australia and England is likely to widened.
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Stokes and Archer show a bit of fight not rolling over in that last session and building a decent 9th wicket partnership.
England still over 150+ behind with only two wickets left. Australia very much in the driving seat and very much the better Cricket side. Their bowling was on the money today. England need a miracle to stay in this series.
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@game_film said in Ashes 2025/6:
@sparky come on mate that survey’s a joke. Tennis FFS. Who they kidding.
Crawley, Pope and Duckett not good enough. And they’re 2 top line bowlers short. That’s about it.
Fielding has been sub-par. Catches win matches and England have dropped too many, too often.
So, aside from batting, bowling and fielding...
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@nzzp said in Ashes 2025/6:
@game_film said in Ashes 2025/6:
@sparky come on mate that survey’s a joke. Tennis FFS. Who they kidding.
Crawley, Pope and Duckett not good enough. And they’re 2 top line bowlers short. That’s about it.
Fielding has been sub-par. Catches win matches and England have dropped too many, too often.
So, aside from batting, bowling and fielding...
Yeah, this looks to be a deeper issue than simply a poor approach or skills. It looks like a degree of mental fragility backed up with some intransigence on strategy and a dash of muddled selection.
When your main strike spinner is not trusted and you fall back on a guy that has been tried and found wanting purely to bolster your batting (Hmmm...) - it's not really teh Stokes/McCullum blueprint is it? Then back this up by having your two front line pace bowlers being known for breaking down, with one not having played any recent cricket on his way back from yet another injury, it does not inspire much confidence or suggest that the hierarchy have any great confidence themselves.
