انگلینڈ کے ساتھ کیا ہوا ہے? آخری دو ٹیسٹ میں وہ انتہائی خراب ہو چکے ہیں. میں کسی بھی کھیل سے باہر آنے کے ل any کسی مثبت کے بارے میں نہیں سوچ سکتا.
کچھ وقت کے لئے بیٹنگ لائن رنز کی کمی ہے. بولرز نے آخری بار انگلینڈ کے لئے ایشز جیتا تھا, جیت کے جبڑوں سے شکست چھیننے کے لئے بہت زیادہ ہیرالڈڈ بیٹنگ لائن کی بہترین کوششوں کے باوجود (ایک طرف حیرت انگیز بیل) اور اب, آسٹریلیائی حالات میں, واقعی انگلینڈ اس کے خلاف ہے. بلے باز جدوجہد جاری رکھے ہوئے ہیں لیکن سب سے زیادہ پریشان کن بات یہ ہے کہ وہ باہر آرہے ہیں۔ لاپرواہی اور کاہلی شاٹس اور درخواست کا فقدان۔. 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 (ٹھیک ہے, 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. پہلے ٹیسٹ کے بعد لوگ باہر آئے, admitted they had let their country down and pledged to put things right second time around. وہ دوبارہ منظم کر سکتے ہیں تاکہ اس بات کو یقینی لگ رہا تھا, banish the memory of the first test horror show and quickly move on. ایسی کوئی قسمت. All they did was repeat the same mistakes as before. Once was forgiveable but no one is laughing second time around. میں نے بھی ٹی وی پر اس کے کسی کو دیکھنے کے لئے اپنے آپ کو نہیں لا سکتا.
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. کوئی بھی اب تک اس سیریز سے باہر آ گیا. 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).
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, بیئرسٹو, 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.