Cut and paste-complete toss

So another journey of ashes ended in disaster.
Anyone who has been following sees it a mile away. So, instead of howling in the wind again and writing a new blog, I thought I would simply cut and paste what I wrote three years ago after our last humiliation. Surprisingly, absolutely nothing has changed. In fact, this archived blog is exactly what I need to say again. Since 2013, British cricket has been a frustrating place.

Finally everything is over. Thank heaven. We predicted a 0-4 loss at the beginning of the series. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened. It all unfolds in the most predictable way, or should I say unfold.

Overall, this is usually a bad series with little competitive action. I regret to say that this is not a good advertisement for test cricket at all.

The one-sided nature of the game will only make things worse. Although the results are tolerable (and even pleasant) for most partisan Australian supporters, I think most observers who put the best interests of the cricket test at heart will be very disappointed with the results (not to mention worrying) . Ashes need to be more competitive and viewable than this.

Although England have been working hard, they never seem to have won a game, and they were completely defeated. In fact, only Rutte, Malan and Anderson can hold their heads high.

Someone might argue that England lost only because they could not seize the opportunity at a critical moment, but I totally disagree. Any team, no matter how strong, may find themselves in a semi-decent position at some point during the five-day test. We occasionally get into positions during the whitewashing period. However, the most important thing is that disasters are always lurking around the corner. Most of us feel it. I suspect that the English players feel it too.

Although the score line is comprehensive and somewhat humiliating, it is inevitable to start looking for a glimmer of hope in some respects. The most prominent of these seems to be “All teams run away from home”. However, scratching under the surface, this argument does not have much water. why? Because England has turned away losses into an art form: we lost 9 times in the last 10 tests in Australia and 4 times in the last 5 tests in India. No one surrenders abroad better than England (or should it be worse?). At least Australia is competitive when it comes to our coast.

In addition to a somewhat lucky victory in South Africa a few years ago, when the cricket team was in a transitional period and missed key players due to injury, England’s recent away record is regrettable. For many years, we have all known the reasons-lack of rhythm and high-quality spin bowling are the two most obvious-but the European Central Bank has never taken any action on this. I can’t think of anything they have done to improve the problem since the last time Ashes Whitewashed, and Tom Harrison has said that this time it won’t change anything. For our unlucky administrators, the pursuit of the outstanding fruits of T20 is obviously the most important.

For most of the past 4 years, the European Central Bank did not use the Ashes Series as an opportunity to retaliate for the humiliation of 2013. Instead, it prioritized white ball cricket and forced the counties to participate in their unpopular, absurd and actionable. The unreasonable T20 franchise competition.

Things will get worse. When Harrison’s Harebrained Have A Hit starts in 2020 (if it does go on), the championship will be further marginalized. The top-notch games will be played only (not mainly) in April, May and September, when bowlers need very little speed or skill to hit the ball; they only need to use the green facilities. More importantly, the batsman will not learn to play long games, because there will always be a ball with their name on it soon. Guys, let’s face it, the English test team’s competitiveness abroad will be getting lower and lower-eventually the home court efficiency in the midsummer will also decrease.

So what can we do about this frustrating state of affairs? I think what our humble supporters can do is to exacerbate our dissent-I don’t want anyone to listen. However, what I want to see is an initiative led by ICC to make the work of the tour team easier. At the beginning of the tour, there needs to be a proper competitive game-rather than weakening the self-service plan of the domestic teams involved-I would like to see all countries, not just England (and New Zealand), inviting reciprocal arrangements for overseas players Participate in their top domestic competition.

The International Cricket Committee and clubs have long been too selfish. It’s time for them to realize that things need to change, and testing the overall health of cricket is far more important than “beating” the British or Indians. If this means reducing the number of ODIs and T20s at the end of the tour, so that important test series can be extended longer and proper first-rate matches between test matches, so be it. However, unfortunately, I doubt that the authorities will consider doing this a second time. Generating income through white ball cricket has increasingly become their top priority. After all, milking a T20 cow is easier (lazier) than actually telling the world what a great game test cricket is.

As for the England team itself-which players should be eliminated and which should be retained-this is another day of discussion. This topic requires an entire article. What’s more, the day after losing a game, everyone will be a little emotional. I think we will see demand for changes in wholesale, even if there are no decent substitutes waiting. We all know whose fault it is!

Having said that, I do think that England needs to leave certain players now. Now of course it’s time to make one of our selectors. Dawid Malan is their only newly unearthed batter in four years. They chose him only because they basically tried others first. In fact, they have tried Gary Ballance three times!

There are many problems in British cricket from top to bottom: from the lack of cricket in public schools, to insufficient funding for clubs, reduced participation, lack of terrestrial TV exposure, to debt-ridden counties, to corporate incompetence, and the completely wrong priorities of the National Committee .

These problems are complex, and it takes time to solve them. Fortunately, however, it only takes a few seconds to call the selector and tell them the hook. In the long run, this will not solve all the problems in England, but it seems to be an obvious starting point.

James Morgan

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