England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

[FrediKanoute]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

It must be a tough track to bat on.......Joe Rooot scores a hundred.

[jeemak]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

It's just been a run fest.

To think after such a bowler oriented first session the opposition could realistically put on 300 is amazing.

[Remi Moses]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

What a complete and utter disgrace !
Honestly it's time to look at ensuring players play longer forms of cricket in o/s conditions.
This will happen continuely otherwise.
The first seven overs , they had one ball hitting the stumps!
That's totally unacceptable batting

[Remi Moses]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

I think the problems are more deep seated than selection.

Outside of this squad the only other batsmen scoring enough runs in first-class cricket to warrant consideration were old-timers like D.Hussey and Klinger.

The way we are developing our youngsters is not equipping them for Test cricket. They have good days, but they're not capable of compiling big scores consistently.

One of the big issues is this " dominate the bowling " mentality from the great sides gone by.
This team isn't good enough to do that, but we still keep this insane mantra .
Just sometimes conditions aren't perfect which requires a grind, yet Australian batsmen can't adhere to that because they must dominate the bowling .I think tiers of Australian cricket need to be closely looked at, as well as the coaching

[lemmon]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

Wow o wow, I missed all of last night but was checking the scores in shock. Going to be a very different Australian XI that comes around this home summer. Boof is much loved but does he survive this?

There must be something going on in the dressing room, it's always the way with these kinds of capitulations

[ledge]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

I heard boof was giving it up after this series anyway. Apparently a big of disturbance in the fact Haddin didn't get back in, need to start playing younger players.

[lemmon]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

I heard boof was giving it up after this series anyway. Apparently a big of disturbance in the fact Haddin didn't get back in, need to start playing younger players.

Extended his contract late last year until June 2017

[Flamethrower]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

Any chance the ACB can get New Zealand to stay for the Boxing Day test to play the West Indies. I am sick of them scheduling minnows like Australia.

[Mantis]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

It must be a tough track to bat on.......Joe Root scores a hundred.

He can bat... Our guys can't.

[LostDoggy]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

In the Australian innings there were 8 balls on the stumps. Our innings would literally have lasted longer if there was no batsman at the crease at all.

[Murphy'sLore]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Bloody T20 has killed test cricket.

[Sedat]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

Spot on but I think it's the coach, captain and a couple of the boys that need to lift or be replaced.
When we are batting we don't like swinging or spin bowling and we won't tighten up at critical times. We have been caught up with trying to dominate attacks and when the pitches don't suit us we too often capitulate.

According to that cheerleader Ian Healy, it's all the WAG's fault. What a scumbag redneck dinosaur - not to mention a cheat on the pitch.

[Twodogs]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Bloody T20 has killed test cricket.

We can't sheet all the blame back to the effect of T20. That was mainly incompetence and would have happened even if T20 had never been invented.

[Murphy'sLore]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

Yeah, well, probably. But I reserve the right to detest T20 anyway.

[Remi Moses]

Re: England v Australia, Fourth Ashes Test, Nottingham

We can't sheet all the blame back to the effect of T20. That was mainly incompetence and would have happened even if T20 had never been invented.

It can't be argued that it hasn't contributed to poor technique and a lack of concentration and patience .
They just throw their hands at the ball , and there's was one ball that was tracking to hit the pegs in the first seven overs!!
That's not knowing your off stump