Insert an 'a' into your name, and then claim it's always been that way and it's just everyone else that gets it wrong.Because I don't see the situation improving over the next 40 days or so.
We're eternally 'that bad', punctuated occasionally by an individual or two that raises us for a brief period.
Stokes being injured is a massive blow.
Ive dropped out of following cricket in the main now but I used to be well into cricket when I was younger.The late 70's, early 80's even saw me with a season ticket for Warwickshire.Are Australia that good or are we just that bad?
Quote from: Nunkin1965 on December 09, 2021, 11:15:23 AMIve dropped out of following cricket in the main now but I used to be well into cricket when I was younger.The late 70's, early 80's even saw me with a season ticket for Warwickshire.Are Australia that good or are we just that bad?One day side we’re very good. But we’ve totally lost the plot with Test cricket - some structural issues with a marginalisation of first class cricket and also just some poor management. In the main we still bring through good seam bowlers - as evidenced today. Spin is weaker, although I don’t think Leach is as bad as the figures suggest today. Main problems are batting is really weak and heavily reliant on one or two quality players getting big runs. The fielding is bad, catching particularly - we are one of the lowest performing fielding sides in the Test game.
Quote from: PaulWinch again on December 09, 2021, 11:55:12 AMQuote from: Nunkin1965 on December 09, 2021, 11:15:23 AMIve dropped out of following cricket in the main now but I used to be well into cricket when I was younger.The late 70's, early 80's even saw me with a season ticket for Warwickshire.Are Australia that good or are we just that bad?One day side we’re very good. But we’ve totally lost the plot with Test cricket - some structural issues with a marginalisation of first class cricket and also just some poor management. In the main we still bring through good seam bowlers - as evidenced today. Spin is weaker, although I don’t think Leach is as bad as the figures suggest today. Main problems are batting is really weak and heavily reliant on one or two quality players getting big runs. The fielding is bad, catching particularly - we are one of the lowest performing fielding sides in the Test game.So we've basically neglected the longer form of the game.There seems to be plenty of evidence around to back that up.