Being fair to Silverwood, he didn't want this bowling attack either. He wanted to pick Archer, Stone and Carse and they all got injured.
Give Leach some crutches and a surgical boot and say he tripped on the stairs?
Anderson was still good in the home series and I think he has bowled well here. If you have fast bowlers around him, he can be the accuracy bowler however probably only has a year or two left really. Broad struggles away from home.
I didn't know he was in the frame for a Test call.
Anderson's figures are incredible still. Averaging 23 this year, 20 last year. In this series he's averaging 22. At an economy rate of under 2, which is phenomenal and puts the pressure on the batting side to take more risks against other bowlers. Sadly, our other bowlers can't capitalise on that.
None of it just adding it on as another thing we need to change before things improve
Root is averaging below 30 in this series, and averaged 9.5 in the SL series with the ball but let's not waste any time in fighting windmills with pitches in India
To be fair to Stone, he has bowled some pretty aggressive spells in county cricket. In the last 10 years can't think of many quicker, bar Mark Wood and Archer.
Yeah, making them work for it, at least. Shouldn't be long now.
He's done this a few times. I think he's saved one match and 2-3 more efforts in vain.
Agreed. There’s a lot of talent there but the openers are clouding over every other aspect. The middle order is guaranteed to be on the back foot every innings and things tend to crumble from there in terms of mentality.
I think I've seen worse but probably not in the last 15 years, to be fair. I'd say this is the worst since Duncan Fletcher took over.
I think there’s some truth in here, but I also feel both teams, England moreso, are woefully underprepared due to Covid and having their warm up games cancelled. It’s two poor to average test teams playing against each other. What we had in the 00s quality wise is light years from this.
Agreed. I don't have strong memories of English sides prior to Hussain's captaincy but this is definitely the worst English side I've seen.
Australian test team with Cummins and Hazelwood isn't average at all.
The bowling is definitely on the good end of their test teams but in my eyes it's not better than Brett Lee, Gillespie and Mcgrath. The latter in particular gave them something this attack hasn't got and the former two gave the aggresion.
Sorta agree - they're a better outfit than England, but it's not a patch on the Aussie teams of yesteryear. I'd say Warner and Smith are the only two that come to mind that would make the Aussie teams of years gone by.
Not a fair benchmark. That was a top 2 GOAT contender.
Guessing WI were t20 world champions and near bottom of test rankings at same time
Tbf we've had a few injuries and Covid has clearly unsettled things but yeah, it's definitely trending downwards.
