0એશિઝ એશિઝ, ઇંગ્લેન્ડ ધૂળ

શું હું વિશે હું ઉપરથી નીચે ત્રાટકી થઈ શકે છે છું ... પરંતુ હું સંતુષ્ટ છું કે આ એશિઝ શ્રેણી ઓવરને અંતે છે. તદ્દન ખાલી ઓસ્ટ્રેલિયા તેમની વ્યક્તિગત ભાગો અને ઇંગ્લેન્ડ સરવાળા કરતા વધારે સારું રમ્યા છે કરવામાં આવી છે, મોટા ભાગ માટે, એકદમ શેતાની.

ખાતરી કરો કે રાત દિવસ પછી .સિઝે વિનાશક 5-0 શ્રેણી જીત્યું, હજી ફરી ઇંગ્લેન્ડની બોલિંગને આંતરરાષ્ટ્રીય લાઇન અપ લાયક ન હોવાના યોગ્ય દાવ માટે કુલ આઉટ. મુલાકાતીઓને હવે પાછા ફરવાની જરૂર છે, re-group and pick up the pieces from this poten­tially dis­astrous tour down-under.

‘Poten­tially’ is a word that is used with great care. Inquests have already star­ted into what went wrong and who must take the blame. It is import­ant of course to ‘learn les­sons’ but hope­fully this tour was but an aber­ra­tion for a once highly suc­cess­ful and cap­able team (હા, ખરેખર!). Just as one swal­low does not make a sum­mer, એક સ્નો ફ્લેક શિયાળામાં બનાવવા નથી. Fin­gers crossed it was just an unfor­tu­nate set of cir­cum­stances that all came togeth­er two wreak hav­oc on the vis­it­ing side. All bats­men lose form at one time or anoth­er – per­haps this was just the moment for every­one to slip up. Com­bine that with the best Eng­lish spin­ner for a gen­er­a­tion decid­ing to fin­ish on a low and you are already going to be strug­gling. Some play­ers have also clearly been in need of a rest – cap­tain­ing the side and open­ing the bat­ting is always a big ask and Alistair Cook has looked tired of late. Matt Pri­or and Jimmy Ander­son have for too long had too much respons­ib­il­ity laid on their admit­tedly broad shoulders. Then of course there was the unfor­tu­nate devel­op­ment in the case of Jonath­an Trott. Very sad and every­one wishes him well. It’s doubt­ful, તેમ છતાં, that he will play inter­na­tion­al crick­et again. તેઓ કરે છે, તો તે જ સ્તર પર નથી થશે. Some of the squad have also been at the start of their inter­na­tion­al careers – Joe Root has the neces­sary skills to make it at inter­na­tion­al level and is worth per­sever­ing with – but it will take time. Michael Car­berry will flour­ish at one day level but the test arena is a little above his skill set. Jonny Bair­stow is worth keep­ing on the fringes – although ques­tion marks remain about his abil­ity to deal with the short ball. તેમણે પ્રથમ પસંદગી પસંદ નથી. Then of course Ben Stokes has stepped for­ward and grabbed his oppor­tun­ity with both hands. Runs and wick­ets when every­one else around you is los­ing their head is a fant­ast­ic accom­plish­ment. Def­in­itely one for the future and the one bright light to come gleam­ing out of the tour.

તે કોર્સ ખૂબ જ આ પ્રવાસ પર જોવા માટે સરળ છે અને કહે છે બધા ગુમાવી છે. It may well be – Eng­land might be a bus­ted flush – but there is hope yet as well.

Review of the tour – indi­vidu­al Eng­land and Aus­tralia play­ers and their series rat­ings (બહાર સ્કોર્સ નથી સરેરાશ બમણો નથી)

એલિસ્ટર કૂક - 246 રન, 3 half cen­tur­ies, ટોચ સ્કોર 72 - ના સરેરાશ 24.6

Cap­tain Cook led from the front and set the tone for the dis­mal show from the entire team. Poor bat­ting (albeit meas­ured against his incred­ibly high stand­ards) તેમજ. Eng­land expect and need him to lead from the front. તેમણે ન હતી 3

Michael Car­berry – 281 રન - 1 half cen­tury, ટોચ સ્કોર 60 - ના સરેરાશ 28.1

ઇંગ્લેન્ડના બીજા સૌથી વધુ રન સ્કોરર (જોકે રન માત્ર તેની પાછળ સ્ટોક્સે કરતાં વધારાની ટેસ્ટ મેચ રમી સ્તંભ બનાવ્યો) – reg­u­larly flattered to deceive and likely that age and poor shot selec­tion through­out the series will mean he doesn’t play at test level again. Can do a job at one day level 4

Kev­in Pietersen – 294 રન - 2 half cen­tur­ies – top score of 71 (ના સરેરાશ 29.4)

Scored the most amount of runs in the Eng­land side but came in for sub­stan­tial cri­ti­cism. Pieterson is able to play the long and patient innings when he puts his mind to it – but rarely both­ers – even if it is what is needed. It is a major weak­ness of a bril­liant play­er but he won’t ever change so there is no point try­ing to make him – at least you know what you get with him 5

ઇયાન બેલ - 235 રન - 2 half cen­tur­ies – top score of 72 (ના સરેરાશ 23.5)

Bell is becom­ing Mr Depend­able for Eng­land. Played a couple of use­ful innings includ­ing car­ry­ing his bat in one. Eng­land can’t keep rely­ing on him to res­cue the side 5

જૉ રુટ - 192 રન - 1 half cen­tury – top score of 87 (ના સરેરાશ 24); 32 ઓવર, 5 maid­ens, 98 રન, 0 વિકેટ

Dropped for the final game but clearly remains in England’s plans going for­ward. Has the tal­ent and the tem­pera­ment to suc­ceed and the man­age­ment need to decide where his best pos­i­tion is in the bat­ting order. Shame he couldn’t con­trib­ute more with the ball. 4.5

Matt Pri­or – 107 રન - 1 half cen­tury – top score of 69 (ના સરેરાશ 17.83)

Anoth­er dis­mal series and the select­ors showed they are not afraid to drop a seni­or pro like him. If there was a ready made replace­ment it’s likely Prior’s days would be ser­i­ously numbered but at the moment no one is lay­ing down a ser­i­ous chal­lenge. He will be back in the sum­mer 4

બેન સ્ટોક્સ - 279 runs – 1 cen­tury – top score of 120 - (ના સરેરાશ 34.87); 116.5 ઓવર, 15 maid­ens, 492 રન, 15 વિકેટ (32.80 દીઠ રન ટિમ)

Com­fort­ably England’s best play­er – third in the over­all runs scored list (hav­ing played a test less than the oth­ers) and second highest wick­et taker – the one shin­ing light in a very dark series for Eng­land. Still a little rough around the edges but Eng­land have a real dia­mond on their hands 8

Stu­art Broad – 155 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 42 - (ના સરેરાશ 15.5); 161.5 ઓવર, 24 maid­ens, 578 રન, 21 વિકેટ (27.52 દીઠ રન ટિમ)

It was always dif­fi­cult for England’s bowl­ing attack to make any real in-roads into a dom­in­ant and cock-sure Aus­trali­an side, espe­cially when their bats­men nev­er man­aged to apply any lever­age by scor­ing a decent total. સ્ટોક્સ પાછળ, Broad was England’s best play­er. Decent amount of wick­ets and a few runs 6.5

Jimmy Ander­son – 41 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 13 not out — (ના સરેરાશ 4.1) ; 190.3 ઓવર, 43 maid­ens, 615 રન, 14 વિકેટ (43.92 દીઠ રન ટિમ)

Like his fast bowl­ing part­ner, Ander­son suffered from no sup­port from the bat­ting line up and is clearly in need of a rest. England’s man­age­ment need to send him home and make sure his bat­ter­ies are re-charged for the home tests – he will still take plenty of wick­ets in Eng­lish con­di­tions 5

ગ્રીમ સ્વાન - 36 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 19 અણનમ (ના સરેરાશ 6); 142 રન, 21 maid­ens, 560 રન, 7 વિકેટ (80 દીઠ રન ટિમ)

Dis­ap­point­ing final series for the best Eng­lish spin­ner in a gen­er­a­tion and failed to con­trib­ute a mean­ing­ful score with the bat either. Swann must be remembered for his pre­vi­ous endeav­ours and not this final hur­rah 4

ટિમ બ્રેસ્નનનો બોલ - 34 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 21 (ના સરેરાશ 8.5); 62.3 ઓવર, 14 maid­ens, 206 રન, 5 વિકેટ (41.2 પ્રતિ વિકેટ રન)

Just a couple of tests for Bresnan to prove him­self after a lengthy lay off. Con­trib­uted noth­ing with the bat but bowled eco­nom­ic­ally at times. Always looks good when oth­ers around him are play­ing well too but an un neces­sary lux­ury when the side is strug­gling. જ્યુરી ટીમમાં સ્થળ પર બહાર હજુ પણ છે - 4.5

Monty Pan­esar – 4 runs — top score of 2 (ના સરેરાશ 1); 70.5 ઓવર, 9 maid­ens, 257 રન, 3 વિકેટ (85.66 દીઠ રન ટિમ)

Usu­al flood of runs from the bat of Monty! With Swann hav­ing closed the cur­tain on his inter­na­tion­al career it’s likely Monty will be the first name the select­ors turn to in the future giv­en the lack of ready-made options. Eng­land put a lot of faith in the play­er after his recent off-field issues but Aus­tralia decided to get after any twirler that came their way; Monty was no excep­tion. 3.5

Jonny Bair­stow – 49 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 21 (ના સરેરાશ 12.25)

Picked ahead of Pri­or for the final two tests but failed to put a mark­er down with either bat or gloves. Occa­sion­ally showed glimpses of hav­ing what it takes to suc­ceed at this level by counter-attack­ing against a rampant oppos­i­tion. Is likely to remain on the fringes of the side as a keep­er-bats­man simply because there are no stand out altern­at­ives. But the man­age­ment must stay awake at night pray­ing for Matt Pri­or to redis­cov­er his form of old. 4

એક ટેસ્ટ અજાયબીઓ:

Jonath­an Trott – 19 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 10 (ના સરેરાશ 9.5)

Tor­tured bat­ting dis­play in his one test – fol­lowed by announce­ment that he was depart­ing the tour. Eng­land missed the once rock of the side – fin­gers crossed he can comeback – but it’s a long road ahead

Gary Bal­lance – 25 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 18 (સરેરાશ 12.5)

Very dif­fi­cult time to make his debut in a side (bat­ting line up espe­cially) devoid of any con­fid­ence. Must be giv­en a prop­er chance to succeed.

Chris Trem­lett – 15 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 8 (સરેરાશ 7.5); 36 ઓવર, 5 maid­ens, 120 રન, 4 વિકેટ (ના સરેરાશ 30 પ્રતિ વિકેટ રન)

Not bad bowl­ing stats hide the fact that he has lost a yard of pace since last on Aus­trali­an shores. With the emer­gence of Stokes to sup­port Ander­son and Broad in the bowl­ing unit and Onions chomp­ing at the bit back home his days would appear numbered.

Scott Borth­wick – 5 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 4 - સરેરાશ 2.5; 13 ઓવર, 0 maid­ens, 82 રન, 4 વિકેટ (20.50 દીઠ રન ટિમ)

A brave decision by the select­ors to pick a leg-spin­ner (the first leg­gie since Ian Salis­bury played his last test in 2000 (પાકિસ્તાન સામે) – espe­cially giv­en the Aus­trali­ans’ determ­in­a­tion to get after any spin­ner presen­ted to them – Borth­wick at least claimed a few scalps. Eng­land must decide who their spin­ner is going to be (મોન્ટી; Ker­rigan or Borth­wick) અને સમય યોગ્ય રકમ માટે તેમની સાથે વળગી છે જે જોવા માટે તે શું લે છે (તેમને કોઇ તો). Borth­wick must play the next test if con­di­tions suit.

વિલિયમ રેન્કિન - 13 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 13 (ના સરેરાશ 6.5); 20.5 ઓવર, 0 maid­ens, 81 રન, 1 wick­et (81 દીઠ રન ટિમ).

Has so far suc­ceeded at one day level – needs more time to see if will devel­op into a main­stay of the side but will face con­sid­er­able oppos­i­tion when the side is back on home soil.

અને હવે ઓસ્ટ્રેલિયનો માટે!!!

Chris Rogers — 463 રન, 2 cen­tur­ies, 3 half cen­tur­ies, ટોચ સ્કોર 119 (ના સરેરાશ 46.3)

Along with his open­ing part­ner Dav­id Warner Rogers time and time again got his side off to a good start with con­sist­ent per­form­ances – two tons and two half cen­tur­ies says it all 7.5

Dav­id Warner – 523 રન, 2 cen­tur­ies, 2 half cen­tur­ies, ટોચ સ્કોર 124 (ના સરેરાશ 52.3)

Exactly the same as his part­ner Rogers, with only a few runs sep­ar­at­ing them. Has more than repaid the select­ors’ faith in him fol­low­ing the off-field antics 8

Shane Wat­son — 345 રન, 1 cen­tury, 2 half cen­tur­ies, ટોચ સ્કોર 103 (ના સરેરાશ 34.5); 47.4 ઓવર, 17 maid­ens, 122 રન, 4 વિકેટ (સરેરાશ પ્રતિ ટિમ ના 30.50)

Use­ful con­tri­bu­tion with the bat but able to bowl a few use­ful overs and keep the pres­sure up as well by tak­ing of wick­ets 7

માઈકલ ક્લાર્ક - 363 રન, 2 cen­tur­ies, ટોચ સ્કોર 148 (ના સરેરાશ 36.3)

Two out­stand­ing and con­sec­ut­ive tons sur­roun­ded by mediocre totals; no mat­ter – he strained every last sinew out of his entire team to demol­ish and demor­al­ise Eng­land and claim a 5–0 white­wash 8.5

સ્ટીવન સ્મિથ - 327 રન, 2 cen­tur­ies, ટોચ સ્કોર 115 (ના સરેરાશ 36.33); 11 ઓવર, 1 maid­en, 58 રન, 1 wick­et (avg per wick­et 58)

Her­al­ded as the series Smith came of age – are his runs down to his bril­liance or col­lect­ive ineptitude on England’s part. તે એક 50/50 call in my opin­ion – if he does the same when facing the South Afric­an pace bat­tery when over­seas then I’ll keep my trap shut 7

George Bailey — 183 રન, 1 half cen­tury, ટોચ સ્કોર 53 (ના સરેરાશ 22.87)

એક નબળા(જેવું) link in the Aus­trali­an side with a dis­ap­point­ing series over­all  5

Brad Had­din — 493 રન, 1 cen­tury, 5 half cen­tur­ies, ટોચ સ્કોર 118 (ના સરેરાશ 61.62)

Derided as a jour­ney man (મારા દ્વારા), Had­din was simply at the top of his game and knocked his crit­ics for imper­i­ous sixes. Eng­land simply had no answer to him. He was the joint top play­er of the series — 10

Mitchell John­son — 165 રન, 1 half cen­tury, ટોચ સ્કોર 64 (ના સરેરાશ 20.62); 188.4 ઓવર, 51 maid­ens, 517 રન 37 વિકેટ (ના સરેરાશ 13.97 દીઠ રન ટિમ)

Simply out­stand­ing. Eng­land just couldn’t cope with his pace – although again this says as much about the oppos­i­tion than it does John­son. But you can only bowl at what you are presen­ted with and he lapped up the tasty morsels with great aplomb. More than one quarter of his overs was a maid­en too. Excel­lent effort for a quick. Joint top play­er for Aus­tralia and over­all 10

Ryan Har­ris – 117 રન, 1 half cen­tury, ટોચ સ્કોર 55 (ના સરેરાશ 19.5); 166.2 ઓવર, 50 maid­ens; 425 રન, 22 વિકેટ (19.31 દીઠ રન ટિમ)

Bril­liant Ginger to Johnson’s Fred, what his fel­low quick didn’t deal with Har­ris picked up. A per­fect foil for John­son and man­aged to stay fit as well. A few use­ful runs and again gave very few runs away with 50 maid­ens 9

પીટર સિડલ - 38 રન, ટોચ સ્કોર 21 (ના સરેરાશ 5.42); 156.4 ઓવર, 48 maid­ens, 386 રન, 16 વિકેટ (ના સરેરાશ 24.12)

ફ્રેડ અને આદુ ક્યારેય વધારાની નોકરી કરવાનું નક્કી કર્યું છે, તો પછી સિડલ તે આવી હશે. His bowl­ing danced around the pitch as his tar­gets dis­played the foot­work of club crick­eters. If John­son or Har­ris didn’t get you then Siddle would – a bril­liant triple act – leav­ing Eng­land with no chance 8

Nath­an Lyon – 60 રન - ટોચ સ્કોર 18 અણનમ (ના સરેરાશ 10); 176.2 ઓવર; 42 maid­ens; 558 રન, 19 વિકેટ (29.36 દીઠ રન ટિમ)

Rather over-shad­owed by the pace trio Lyon still picked up 19 wick­ets and was an integ­ral part of the bowl­ing attack 8

 

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