1إنجلترا - فقط ما الأمر??

ماذا حدث لانجلترا? في الاختبارات الماضيين أنها كانت مروعة. لا أستطيع التفكير في أي إيجابيات لأخذها من أي من المباراتين.

كان خط الضرب قصيرًا لبعض الوقت الآن. فاز لاعبو البولينج بالرماد في الجولة الأخيرة لإنجلترا, على الرغم من الجهود الجبارة التي بذلها خط الضرب الذي تم الإعلان عنه كثيرًا لانتزاع الهزيمة من فكي النصر (الجرس الرائع جانبًا) و الأن, في الظروف الأسترالية, إنكلترا حقا ضدها. لا يزال رجال المضرب يكافحون ، لكن الأمر الأكثر إثارة للقلق هو الطريقة التي يخرجون بها - اللقطات المتهورة والبطيئة ونقص التطبيق. You expect fire­works from Kev­in Pieterson early on in an innings but not the others.

Are Eng­land in ter­min­al decline? The odds are stack­ing up in favour of that argu­ment. Geof­frey Boy­cott is cer­tainly mak­ing the point – and Geoff usu­ally talks sense (York­shire man and all). He makes a com­par­is­on between the struggles this year of his favour­ite foot­ball team Man Utd (حسنا, you can’t be per­fect) and Eng­land at the moment – in oth­er words all good things must come to an end. Eng­land have had a good run but now oth­ers are tak­ing over.

I’m afraid I’m find­ing it hard to argue against Yorkshire’s favour­ite son. بعد الاختبار الأول جاء رفاق, admit­ted they had let their coun­try down and pledged to put things right second time around. يبدو أنهم على يقين من أنهم قد يعيدون تنظيم أنفسهم, ban­ish the memory of the first test hor­ror show and quickly move on. لا يوجد مثل هذا الحظ. All they did was repeat the same mis­takes as before. Once was for­give­able but no one is laugh­ing second time around. لم أستطع حتى أحمل نفسي لمشاهدة أي من ذلك على شاشة التلفزيون.

The wor­ry­ing thing is that a solu­tion appears some­what lack­ing. Whole­sale changes aren’t the answer and I can­’t think of any stand out can­did­ates who have been left out on the side­lines back in Blighty. Onions could or should have gone and there’s an argu­ment that Cromp­ton was a little unlucky. But that would just rep­res­ent tinker­ing around the edges. Some of the cur­rent team are com­pletely out of sorts — and there’s noth­ing worse than facing a cocky Aus­tralia with their backs up. Eng­land bats­men are queuing up like startled rab­bits caught in head­lights ready to be splattered; Mitchell John­son at the wheel. On paper we have a bet­ter start­ing elev­en than our con­vict cous­ins but a large num­ber of big repu­ta­tions are rap­idly dis­ap­pear­ing in a puff of smoke. لم يأت أحد من هذه السلسلة بشكل جيد حتى الآن. I really hope that in the next test we put up a semb­lance of a fight – and if we recov­er from 2–0 down to retain the Ashes you won’t find any­one hap­pi­er. But I’m not count­ing my chick­ens (or ducks if you are an Eng­lish batsman).

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Now the Ashes have gone is it time to rest some and bring in oth­ers to see how they shape up? Rest KP, Pri­or, Jimmy and Swann. Bring in Bal­lance, Bairstow, Trem­lett, Monty and make up the 12 with Finn or Rankin. If Broad’s foot isn’t fit by Box­ing day then bring them both into the 12. Joe will need to shape up a bit if he wants to keep the no.3 spot.

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