1ਆਸਟਰੇਲੀਆ ਵੱਡੇ ਹੱਥ ਫੜ - ਇੱਕ ਮਰੇ ਰਬੜ ਮੈਚ ਵਿਚ

ਦੋ ਦਿਨ 'ਚ ਅਤੇ ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆ ਜ਼ਰੂਰ ਵੱਡੇ ਹੱਥ ਹੈ. ਪਰ ਇਸ ਦਾ ਕੀ. ਏਸ਼ੇਜ਼ ਜਿੱਤਿਆ ਅਤੇ ਇਹ ਹੈ ਜੋ 'ਤੇ ਯਕੀਨੀ ਪਰੈਟੀ ਜਿੱਤਿਆ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ. ਇਹ ਇਕ ਮੁਰਦਾ-ਰਬੜ ਮੈਚ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਏਸ਼ੇਜ਼ ਦੀ ਪੁਰਾਣੀ ਲੜੀ ਦੀ ਬਹੁਤ ਯਾਦ ਦਿਵਾਉਂਦੀ ਹੈ ਜਦੋਂ ਇੰਗਲੈਂਡ ਅਚਾਨਕ ਇਕ ਵਧੀਆ ਪ੍ਰਦਰਸ਼ਨ ਨੂੰ ਟੋਪੀ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਹਰ ਕੱ toਦਾ ਸੀ ਜਦੋਂ ਕਲਾਈ ਆਸਨੀ ਦੇ ਕਬਜ਼ੇ ਵਿਚ ਸੀ.. Play­ers who time and time again let the team down would sud­denly grab a five-for or score a cen­tury and their series aver­age to the his­tor­ic observ­er would look half-decent.

So now the boot is on the oth­er foot. Aus­tralia are try­ing to prove they can actu­ally bat des­pite all the indic­a­tions they can­’t and a lot of play­ers are play­ing for their futures. All the plaudits went to Shane Wat­son yes­ter­day and Steve Smith will get them today. What a load of rub­bish. Wat­son in par­tic­u­lar has let his team down a lot. When it mattered he went miss­ing. Smith has been little bet­ter through­out the series. All they have man­aged to do score runs off a bowl­ing attack with only three play­ers bowl­ing to an accept­able inter­na­tion­al stand­ard and then smash two debutants who looked a little short of inter­na­tion­al class (Woakes in par­tic­u­lar) ਸਾਰੇ ਚਾਰ ਕੋਨੇ ਤੱਕ. ਬਹੁਤ ਖੂਬ. ਸਿਖਰ ਕੇਲਾ. ਸ਼ਰਤ, although not true in its lit­er­al sense, 'ਫਲੈਟ ਟਰੈਕ ਝਗੜਾਲੂ' ਮਨ ਨੂੰ ਹੀ ਉਗਮਦੀ.

Some people have tried to take pos­it­ives from the Aus­sie per­form­ances this series. ਦੁਬਾਰਾ, rub­bish. ਠੀਕ ਹੈ, had it not been for the rain in the third test then they would have been in with a good shout of win­ning (although Eng­land have a good recent his­tory when it comes to hero­ic rear-guard actions) but oth­er than that their bat­ting has simply not been up to scratch. Their bowl­ing has been OK but you can’t win a series without reas­on­able inputs from both. So many com­ment­at­ors have said: “Oh if it just wasn’t for this ses­sion” or “they matched them for most of the game but…” well that’s what test match crick­et is about. All teams should be able to com­pete for decent stretches but the best teams are marked out by win­ning the vital ses­sions, tak­ing the key wick­ets when it mat­ters, scor­ing the runs when they are needed. Eng­land have done that, Aus­tralia have not. Just think – oth­er than Bell, England’s bats­men have, by their own high stand­ards, been rel­at­ively short of runs. And Pri­or has had a bat­ting night­mare. If the they had all just made their aver­ages (ਸਾਰੇ ਪੱਟੀ ਬੈੱਲ ਹਨ, at the time of writ­ing, prob­ably about 20 runs under their indi­vidu­al aver­ages) then sud­denly there’s anoth­er 100 ਜ ਇਸ ਬੋਰਡ 'ਤੇ ਚੱਲਦਾ ਹੈ.

Maybe a vic­tory for Aus­tralia in this test will sud­denly thrust the momentum their way for when we start this all over again in a few months time, ਪਰ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਹਾਲੇ ਤੱਕ ਯਕੀਨ ਹੈ ਹੋਣ ਲਈ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ.

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Those knock­ing the decision to hand Ker­rigan and Woakes their inter­na­tion­al caps are, in my opin­ion, bark­ing up the wrong tree.

ਠੀਕ ਹੈ, Woakes in par­tic­u­lar is not quite there yet when it comes to pos­sess­ing the neces­sary inter­na­tion­al class for test match crick­et and I’ve not yet seen enough of Ker­rigan after he was reduced to only 8‑overs on day one. But how will we ever know if they are not giv­en a chance. The view in the minds of the Eng­land select­ors, ਸਹੀ ਜ ਗਲਤ, is that these two are worthy of con­sid­er­a­tion so why not give them the chance in a dead-rub­ber match which, because of the Aussie’s desire to restore a modic­um of pride, retains a com­pet­it­ive edge. Should they have been thrust into the lime­light for the first test? ਕੋਈ ਉਹ ਆਪਣੇ ਲਈ ਨਾ ਚਾਹੀਦਾ ਹੈ. Would Trem­lett have been picked for this match if the series was all square? ਜੀ ਉਹ ਹੈ ਸੀ. As I pre­vi­ously argued I would have maybe gone even fur­ther and giv­en a couple of oth­er lads a chance as well. I’ve not heard a great deal about Woakes but if what people say about Ker­rigan is true then it’s highly likely he will emerge much stronger after a dif­fi­cult start to life as a test crick­eter – and that’s got to be good for Eng­land because Swann isn’t going to be around for ever. And always remem­ber – Gooch got a pair on his debut. ਬੁਰੇ ਬਾਹਰ ਚਾਲੂ ਨਾ ਸੀ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਕੀਤਾ ਸੀ!

All this talk of debuts got me think­ing about how well, or oth­er­wise, the cur­rent team did on their debuts. Woakes and Ker­rigan are covered but what about the rest?

ਕੁੱਕ - ਦੇ ਸਕੋਰ 60 and 104; ਰੂਟ - 73 and 20*; Trott — 41 and 119; Pieterson - 57 and 64*; ਬੈੱਲ - 70; Pri­or – 126* and 21; ਬਰਾਡ - 1wkt; ਸਵਾਨ - 4wkts;  and Ander­son (a 5‑for in the first innings).

So all in all some very good debuts amongst the cur­rent crop – espe­cially amongst the batsmen!