Good to see Warner getting himself out, small consolation though. Root was the only bowler who looked remotely threatening.
45-1 at close then, another dismal day, which started so well with Root & Malan, but the usual happened once they went then the normal collapse.
Feels everything is wrong, lack of preparation, strategy for this test appears to be to pick a side for half an hour under lights, but losing the toss put paid to that, no variety in bowling, batters poor, etc
Aus. media really getting stuck in to England performance. Nigella's stew and Buttler chocolate teapot comments are quite funny. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-19/ashes-england-australia-adelaide-test-loss/100711860
stokes has just bowled a 9-ball over... 12 runs* off it. anderson's 10 overs have cost 8 runs. 12 more* off stokes' second over, but he kept it to 7 deliveries. and now the batsmen have got their eyes in, broad has given them 10 off the last over of the session, making 35 off the last four overs. * including the extras.
Interesting that with Root off the field we take 3-14, he returns and he get hammered all over with changes of length in bowling. I say again this needs wholesale changes, coach, captain and some new faces at the top of the order, Root is a master batsman, but a poor captain.
Just when you're starting to wonder if Eng can bat all day tomorrow Root gets out in the last over of the day.
And so England ended up bowling 35 overs of spin in the Test, a curious move for a team who went into the Test insisting that they didn’t need a spin bowler. Indeed one of the more memorable television images from day four was the expression of Jack Leach – England’s main spinner – sitting just over the boundary rope in a yellow bib, watching Robinson bowl and Root about to relieve him. “Unimpressed” barely hints at it. please log in to view this image Joe Root praised for playing through pain for England after blows to groin Read more In a way, it was the ultimate vindication of Australia’s pre-series plan: isolate the spinner, target the spinner, hit the spinner out of the attack, out of the team, perhaps even out of the series. Probably Leach will return at some stage. But his mauling at Brisbane had already achieved its primary objective: spooking England into changing tack, forcing them to leave out their best spinner on Australia’s best spinning wicket. The good teams take these setbacks in their stride, show some faith, reaffirm their principles. England, by contrast, are not a good team and have very few remaining principles to speak of. And so when things go wrong – and they often go wrong – there is little to fall back on but feverish improvisation and blind panic. This, above all, is how you end up rotating three part-time spinners on a turning wicket while your actual spinner with a Test average of 31 watches from a chair.
