Oh....... My ........ God.
What a shambles.
To capitulate to such an extent isn't anything new for this over-hyped and underwhelming England squad.
In the Trent Bridge test last summer England effectively did the same thing. Chasing 120-odd to win the game 'The Lions' tried to throw that away, and it was only due to the mettle of the lowest of low order batsmen that we survived.
The debacle of Brisbane and now Adelaide has shown not cracks in this makeshift England side, but huge seizmic fissures.
The decision to play both Anderson and Giles from the start proved that Fletcher was scared. He hoped that by playing 2 defensive bowlers that he could retain, and not win The Ashes.
With Panesar and Mahmood keeping cool on the sidelines, what did the england coach seriously expect Giles and Anderson to achieve.
Being a Lancastrian, I hate critiscing my own but James Anderson is in no way a test match cricketer, and he never will be. He has little in the way of variation, little ability to swing the ball, and his relatively pedestrian bowling speed will be little more than the Aussies face day in day out by their academy bowlers.
This is the Ashes, and it seems to me like the England team are over in Australia acting like it's an old boys reunion. With a laddish captain and squad stacked with inexperienced and anodyne players, it's no wonder we're getting one hell of a beating. I just wonder why we never saw it coming?
To capitulate to such an extent isn't anything new for this over-hyped and underwhelming England squad.
In the Trent Bridge test last summer England effectively did the same thing. Chasing 120-odd to win the game 'The Lions' tried to throw that away, and it was only due to the mettle of the lowest of low order batsmen that we survived.
The debacle of Brisbane and now Adelaide has shown not cracks in this makeshift England side, but huge seizmic fissures.
The decision to play both Anderson and Giles from the start proved that Fletcher was scared. He hoped that by playing 2 defensive bowlers that he could retain, and not win The Ashes.
With Panesar and Mahmood keeping cool on the sidelines, what did the england coach seriously expect Giles and Anderson to achieve.
Being a Lancastrian, I hate critiscing my own but James Anderson is in no way a test match cricketer, and he never will be. He has little in the way of variation, little ability to swing the ball, and his relatively pedestrian bowling speed will be little more than the Aussies face day in day out by their academy bowlers.
This is the Ashes, and it seems to me like the England team are over in Australia acting like it's an old boys reunion. With a laddish captain and squad stacked with inexperienced and anodyne players, it's no wonder we're getting one hell of a beating. I just wonder why we never saw it coming?
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