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Bull Shark
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There’s a bit of a widespread assumption that England beats us in the 27’ Ashes .. Tell ya what, if we can cobble together a decent XI this time next year, there’s no reason at all we can’t get the job done over there .. England just isn’t that good to begin with, and now they appear to be in or heading towards a bit of turmoil
Fernando
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We will win. It will be the swansong for this group and things could get ugly for a while after that though. Brook is too loose and brainless to lead Bazball, and if they sack Mccullum they don't have the talent to beat us playing conventionally. Lost their allrounder with no replacement in sight so team balance is screwed, and he's their best bowler.
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He’s a massive loss and yeah it seems there are deep problems in England cricket. That said, he’s always comes across as my way or the highway.
Assuming Brook is made captain, it will be interesting to see what further changes occur and whether McCullum stays on.
Surely Root isn’t far behind. I suspect England v Aus is going to be very random in results moving forward. Where England does have an advantage is that they have introduced guys in their 20s which Australia hasn’t.
Guys like Brook, Bethel, Smith, Gay, Atkinson and Tongue have years ahead of them. For Aus, this is only Green.
Assuming Brook is made captain, it will be interesting to see what further changes occur and whether McCullum stays on.
Surely Root isn’t far behind. I suspect England v Aus is going to be very random in results moving forward. Where England does have an advantage is that they have introduced guys in their 20s which Australia hasn’t.
Guys like Brook, Bethel, Smith, Gay, Atkinson and Tongue have years ahead of them. For Aus, this is only Green.
Battler
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Stokes has to go down as one of the most overrated sporting figures of all time. Terrible batting record (sub-35 average) interspersed with some all time great knocks. His gun barrel straight medium pacers were non threatening most of the time, but on paper his bowling record looks better than his batting which you wouldn’t have expected at the start of his career.
A dog of a bloke from what we’ve seen, too.
A dog of a bloke from what we’ve seen, too.
Battler
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We need to unearth a couple of freaks like we did with Warner and Smith post the Ponting era. We’re cooked if our current batting crop doesn’t improve
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I think we wouldve won last time we went to England, but it started turning when the negative bowling came out... just slowed any runs to a crawl.
In terms of the batting, Bazball still bazballed... some big scores and some shockers, but compare that to England before Bazball and they just weren't able to put up totals. They didnt have test batters outside of Root.
It will be interesting to see which way England go if they do sack McCullum, because England were basically treading water or even sinking before him... if they go back to traditional test cricket style will they even have batters that can do it??
They havent been playing traditional accumulating cricket for years now and I daresay that has trickled down to their domestic comp as well... they might have to double down on Bazball even if they sack him, but that's not really the style for any other test cricket coach around the world.
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In FC, it is still mostly traditional style batting with some Bazball interspersed throughout. They do have some decent potential coming through, looks way bette than Aus's gen current anyway. Aus's gen next look promising but are mostly nowhere near ready yet but one thing is for sure, most of gen current not getting a gig and gen old being held on to as long as possible.
But there is bowling talent that Aus needs to start giving exposure to - O'Neill, Bartlett, Sutherland, Murphy, Kuhnemann for example. In the batting stakes, it is only McSweeney and maybe Kellaway and maybe Clayton that look like they MAYBE could handle the level with any bat around 25ish. But this is why McSweeney is my number 3 for Aus moving forward. He needs a chance against an attack not featuring Bumrah. If Aus doesn't want to take the punt on Connolly as an opener, than Kellaway should get the shot against Bangladesh.
Big Del
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Dunno if we were watching the same guy these last 10 or so years .
He has a batting average higher than his bowling average .
7000 runs and 246 wickets . Over rated ?
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Did the negative bowling start after that test?
I remember that it felt like Aus was somewhat cruising through the first two sets and then the ball change happened and the last couple tests were just negative boring as **** torture.
I remember flicking it on after getting home from a broncos game and there was a whole session that was just wide bouncers with leg side traps waiting for batsmen to get themselves out.
Australia then started doing the negative bowling as well and the Bairstow incident happened because it was just bouncer after bouncer.
And ever since then it's been one of England's go to tactics with the ball and they're just boring as **** to watch
Fernando
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The ball change was in the final test. We were cruising chasing down their total while England had an old ball doing nothing, then they swapped it for a ball that looked brand new in comparison and of course it started moving around corners instantly.
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Bucking Beads
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If our quick stay fit we might be a chance.. Need to find some runs though.
