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They have 3 bowlers up for it against a top six with one guy in form.
Not difficult to see why we're losing. Had they an opener in form with the bat, they'd have won this series by now.
Since then and not including this series, we have had 43 English innings, scoring 11,617 runs with 404 wickets down.
That's 28.75 runs per wicket.
That's 270.16 runs per innings.
Australia in that same time period has had 35 innings, scoring 9,508 runs with 297 wickets down.
That's 32.01 per wicket.
That's 271.66 runs per innings. Looks fairly fair, yes?
You then have to consider that in that time period Australia played a total of 19 Tests. 6 of them were without Smith and Warner, their best two batsmen. Imagine what England's average would have been like above if Root and whomever our second best batsman was in that time were unavailable for nearly of a third of the Tests.
During this time period up to his ban, Smith played 10 Tests and scored 948 runs at 63.20
In that same time period, Root played 22 Tests, 1396 runs at 35.79.
It really does reinterate how outstanding Smith is and how important he is to the team with the bat and how far Root has dropped off the last few years.
349/1 England to win
16/5 for the draw
2/7 Australia to win
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Also IMO Leach is still out of order and at fault for a no ball - I'm allowed a view point
Maybe it won't matter now, as the Ashes is probably staying with the Aussies - But one key moment can sometimes win/loose a match, or at least have a major impact at a key point of the match - Look at 'Gary' at the end of the 3rd Test and the 'failed' run-out - Not only did the no ball ensure Smith got around another 100 runs, it will have ensured the team ride of the back of that , batting alongside him, so maybe 170 extra runs for the team
Is it a case of a few new players, or application ??
Genuinely awful.
Stay focussed, it could get tense, the 2 hours evening session will be a fraught and long one if they can hang in.
Odds on the draw are down to 5/2
England win is now 1000/1
The batsman goes through a set routine as the bowler approaches. He then breaks that routine depending on the delivery he receives. No argument there. It's
it's different when bowling. You arrive at the top of your mark and you're thinking about this next delivery. You've bowled four immaculate corridor of uncertainty deliveries so what now? Slower ball, yorker, bouncer, trying to swing it, wobble seam, googly, flipper, etc... so the change could start with the way you grip the ball. If it's reversing, you might hide the ball more. But let's keep on the slow bowler front. There are the variations as mentioned there and then the variations of pace and flight. A bowler could go more round arm or go as high as possible. No bowler can be perfectly accurate or repeat every delivery on the mark, thus meaning there are inconsistencies between each delivery: stride length, the amount of reach in the delivery stride, how he releases the ball with the fingers depending on the type of delivery he is trying to bowl.
Here's one for you: wind. It's been rather blustery at Old Trafford. If Leach is bowling into a 20mph wind for five deliveries and then the wind drops during the sixth delivery as he comes in, it could throw him off. Witness Junaid Khan a couple of years ago going against the famous Fremantle Doctor.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1309647
It's a damn sight easier to have a pre-delivery pickup routine as a batsman than it is for a bowler. This is why we don't see bowlers going through the sort of lengthy preamble that Jon Trott used to do! imagine a slow bowler with the sort of jiggles and wiggles Sandpaper Smith has...
So fellow cricket fans, assuming England fail to win the ashes, and Joe Root resigns (I think he should, he looks cooked) who would you make captain?
its tough, as there really isn’t anyone else. I’d go for Burns personally.
opening the batting in England is very hard and made even harder due to this insane Aussie bowling attack. Not to mention no opener played well on either side last summer against India until Alistair Cook made hay in his last test match.
He he has shown he has the ability to make runs against this attack and stick it out...he’s the only player in this team who has captaincy experience.
Its controversial, but there is nobody else. Root has to go as captain. And can’t wait for Baylis to go. (Is Jason Gillespie the next England coach?)
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Wesley Young: Hate to be negative but if England don’t up the scoring rate here this game is going to end up a draw.
Root won't resign, he'll take 6 weeks off then head to New Zealand then South Africa for the winter as Test captain. Who wants to resign on a low, tough it out and try and end on a high. I'm not sure he'll be captain for the next Ashes series though.
Bayliss has already confirmed he is stepping down down after the Ashes.
I don't think Jofra has the patience and temperament for this, or Broad.