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Brainy Dose said:
They'll always whinge and moan,they hate to lose! That's why they're the best in the world and why it's so great to beat them!
The target for the England management team is to put together a side to win the Ashes in Australia in 2 years time.
Tall order! Legendary status awaits them! Such a lot of personnel changes required on both sides after this series...be enthralling to see how it develops,but could be our best chance in near enough 40 years!
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We won there in 2010/2011
 
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Essayyeffcee said:
Been talking to my cousin over there and he says their tabloids have questioned the tactics of Cummins and they love our brand of cricket over there. I can see Cummins getting the chop as captain and the cheat Smith being put back in, seeing he was being captain on the field in this series
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Smith almost certainly the architect of the Carey stumping episode. He has form for getting younger players do dodgy stuff for him, so it'll have been him.

Cummins made an error in allowing it, showing a weakness under pressure, though by and large I don't mind him at all.
 
Riever said:
The Aussies and their press especially will need to admit that throughout the series they were on the defensive with spread fields and negative tactics when England were batting and then no real effort to push the game on when they were batting. It worked in the first two tests, although England really should have won the first one, but as soon as England stopped throwing wickets away going after the short ball it was shown up for what it was, negative cricket.

Very un-Australian. They have the players to be far more positive - I do think that in their next home series they will be an entirely different mindset.
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I'm not sure they do have the players now to bat in the committed attacking way England did.

Warner is past his best now by a margin and Kawajah is a good lad but a crease occupier. They are both 36. Labuchagne is more a run gatherer. An exceptional batsman, but no hurry up merchant. Smith is still very good too, but just past his best now. He is 34. Head is good, but England have shown he doesn't like the short ball, though in fairness he did improve with it.

I'm not sure about the back up. They are talking about Bancroft replacing Warner. Maybe.....

But only Head and Labuchagne are inder 30, and not for long.

They can't just morph into what England are doing without a full overhaul of the coaching as happened here. A lot of people were let go.

Their bowlers, (like ours) are also getting on a bit. So they could change the way they go about playing as so many of the players will soon be changing, but whether they will or not is the question. I doubt it myself.
 
Oliver's Army said:
How the **** Jason Roy is in the England squad I do not know. Out for nowt in the Hundred final.
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On his day he’s superb though mate. I’ve watched him own an attack. Impossible to bowl at him in form.

Obviously the “in form” is imperative. He’s currently not!!! Meaning he should be back at county level until he is
 
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marcusblackcat said:
On his day he’s superb though mate. I’ve watched him own an attack. Impossible to bowl at him in form.

Obviously the “in form” is imperative. He’s currently not!!! Meaning he should be back at county level until he is
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It's been a bit too long since he had any sort of consistently good performances, and when there is someone like Brook missing out it surprises me that he's been picked. As you say, great on his day but been a bit crap for a bit too long now.
 
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Wayne the Punk said:
I suppose we could have just sandpapered it. I wonder how long they got away with that for?
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What I find hilarious is how these confirmed cheats like Warner are still crying about the ball change......when it was the umpires who changed the ball and not the England players.
Sour grapes, playground bullies. Absolutely delightful
 
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