ಇದು ಮತ್ತೆ ಆ ಸಮಯ - ರಾತ್ರಿ ಉದ್ದವಾಗಿದೆ, ವಿಮಾನ ತಂಪಾಗಿರುವ, ಆದರೆ ಶೀಘ್ರದಲ್ಲೇ ರೇಡಿಯೊ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಂಕಿ ಮತ್ತು ನಮ್ಮ ಕಿವಿಗಳು ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾದ ಬೇಸಿಗೆ ಋತುವಿನ ಶಬ್ದಗಳನ್ನು ತರುವ. ಇಂಗ್ಲೆಂಡ್ ಗೆಲುವಿಗೆ ಹಿಂದಿನ ಅಂತರದಿಂದ ಮರಳಿ ಬರುತ್ತದೆ (ಅವರು ಮಾಡಿದಂತೆ 2010-11, ಅಥವಾ ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾ ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ 3RD ರಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂಕವನ್ನೂ 4 ಸರಣಿ. ನಾನು ಒಂದು ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ ಬೆಟ್ಟಿಂಗ್ ಅದು ಒಂದು ಸರಿಸಮ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ!
I think this is the hardest to predict Ashes series this millennium — both sides have a decent number of quality bowlers, ಮತ್ತು ಸಮವಾಗಿ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ 4 of the best batsmen in the game. Both sides also have a recent history of middle order collapse, and a selection of match results that vary from brilliant to truly pathetic. It seems like it might be a case of “who cracks first”.
If England get on top, ಅವರು ಮಾಡಿದಂತೆ 2010, the Aussie crowds and press will get at the green-team with a vigour only normally seen in the British press when the footballers fail to materialise. ಸಮಾನವಾಗಿ, if Australia get on top then England have a tendency to totally implode as they did in the 2 visits down under either side of their 2010 ಗೆಲುವಿನ.
Overall the odds must be in the Australian’s favour, something the bookies agree with. They have home-soil advantage and will no doubt prepare pitches that offer pace and seam with as little swing as possible. Fair play to them — I’ve no doubt England will prepare swinging pitches in return the next time our Aussie friends are over here. ಬೆನ್ ಸ್ಟೋಕ್ಸ್ ಸಂಬಂಧ (1) has also damaged England’s preparations, and there are some injury problems which could prove significant too.
I think the margins between the teams are quite small, and things beyond human control (ಉದಾ-. ಟಾಸ್, the weather) could prove crucial. ನಾನು ತಂಡದ ಮೇಲೆ ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತದೆ ಒಮ್ಮೆ ಬೇಕಾದವು ಒಂದು ಉತ್ತಮ ಅವಕಾಶ ಇಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಭಾವಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ. The difference between a 3–1 victory as in 2010, and a 5–0 defeat, could actually be quite small. If England come away with a draw, ಅವರು ಆಶಸ್ ಉಳಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. This will rightly be regarded as pretty much as good as victory and England will rightly get all the plaudits. Planning for victory shouldn’t be the hardest job in the world, so instead — how about we think beforehand about what might happen in the event of defeat.
Let’s imagine the Aussies get a bit of run of the ball, ಮತ್ತು ಇದು ಉತ್ತಮ ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು, and England sink to defeat in the first couple of test matches. Realistically it is unlikely that they could come back from 2–0 down, so the remaining matches wouldn’t really tell us a great deal new. Is there a difference between leaving having lost by 3 ಅಥವಾ 4 ತಂಡದ ಯಥಾಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಲ್ಲಿದ್ದು, and leaving having lost 5–0 with the captain in doubt, a leading bowler gone, ಮತ್ತು 2 of the best batsman gone. I ask because that is what happened in 2013–14, when questions were left hanging over Captain Cook, Jonathan Trott quit international cricket, ಕೆ ಪಿ ಔಟ್ ಹಾಕಲಾಯಿತು, ಮತ್ತು ಗ್ರೇಮ್ ಸ್ವಾನ್ ಪ್ರವಾಸ ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲೇ ಬಿಟ್ಟು. In other words massive mismanagement had managed to snatch a much greater defeat from the jaws of a brief embarrassment. Just imagine the current England team but with KP, Trott and Swann still available for selection — a world number 1 ಅಡ್ಡ ಖಂಡಿತವಾಗಿ?
Instead we have a younger less experienced team, but with plenty of quality and plenty of potential. It is essential to the future of the team that such massive failures of management are not repeated on this tour. There is no dominant country in test cricket at present, with Australia, ಇಂಗ್ಲೆಂಡ್, ಭಾರತ, Pakistan and South Africa all capable of being dominant and ruthless, and also all capable of being very poor too. There is nothing to separate these 5 ಕಡೆ. All of them would be favourites in home conditions to beat all of the others. This is particularly so in England’s case, ಜೊತೆ 2 of the best swing bowlers in the history of the game able to win home matches with regularity, even when the batsmen are struggling.
ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ, let’s hope the England management have learned from previous mistakes, ಮತ್ತು ಸೋಲಿನ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ, find ways to keep the team together, lift the great talent we have, and bring the England team home ready to continue building towards the future. If they can’t do that, ನಿಖರವಾಗಿ ಅವರು ತಂಡಕ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಬೇಕು?
(1) A footnote on the Ben Stokes affair. This is a worrying sign that England management haven’t learned from the past. Ask yourself this — if it was the other way around and a key Aussie player had assaulted someone in a bar would the Aussies have dropped that player? Or would they have downplayed it, picked the guy anyway, and even gone on to make him vice captain? ನಿಮಗೆ ಉತ್ತರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ಅನುಮಾನ ಕೇವಲ ಜೋ ರೂಟ್ ಕೇಳಲು! It seems to me that England management are first and foremost interested in avoiding catching any flack from the media, rather than acting in the right way. Successful management publicly supports their player. What is said in private is no doubt very different. There isn’t even any sign of management taking a grain of responsibility, despite repeated failures to manage players effectively, be it with mental health (ಟ್ರೆಸ್ಕೋಥಿಕ್, ಟ್ರಾಟ್), team relations (ಸ್ವಾನ್, ಕೆ.ಪಿ.), or responsible behaviour (Flintoff in pedalo-gate, Root getting punched in walkabout, players urinating on the pitch, ಮತ್ತು ಈಗ ಪ್ರಹಾರದ ಮೇಲೆ ಸ್ಟೋಕ್ಸ್).
“ಗುಲಾಬಿ ಚೆಂಡು ಕೆಂಪು / ಹಸಿರು ಕೊರತೆಯ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬೂದು / ನೀಲಿ ಬಣ್ಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣುತ್ತದೆ, ಅದರ ತೀವ್ರತೆಯನ್ನು ಅವಲಂಬಿಸಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ನಾನು ಬಣ್ಣ ಕುರುಡುತನದಿಂದ ಸಿಮ್ಯುಲೇಶನ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ…”