British press after whitewash

[Sedat]

Re: British press after whitewash

Agree. A false dawn I think. England's inability to sustain any sort of pressure for any of the tests has made our performance look much better. They were unable to follow through when they had our batsmen on the ropes. If not for the batting exploits of Haddin and our tail we could have seen a much more closer series.

I expect us to come crashing back to reality against the South Africans next month. If they have us 5 or 6 down for 100 they wont let us off the hook unlike the Poms.

To an extent. If you have a top drawer bowling line-up, they can keep you in most games, and our bowling stocks look to be in rude health with Cummins, Starc, Bird, Coulter-Nile and Pattinson all waiting in the wings. The Windies were a very ordinary batting combination (excluding Lara) throughout most of the 90's but were able to maintain a high test ranking basically due to Ambrose and Walsh (and Bishop when he could get on the park) ripping through most teams. Our batting has some concerns, but the quality and depth of our bowling should keep us in most matches over the next few years.

[westdog54]

Re: British press after whitewash

To an extent he has a point. Australia has been great but England have just been terrible. Only Stokes and Broad can hold their heads up high for England.

I'm with Boycott on this as well. The batting has been brittle, fielding terrible, leadership non-existant. The bowlers tried hard but the skipper let them down badly.