Enough-complete toss

Part of our responsibility at TFT is to make ordinary fans speak out. Therefore, since we have received a large number of articles responding to the same point of view in recent days, I think I will publish one of the most heartfelt articles. It comes from regular reader Doug Minde. I believe many of you are as angry as him, although there is still room for debate about the future of a particular player…

RIP English test cricket, died in EDGBASTON on July 13, 2021.
The team will be cremated and the ashes will be shipped to New Zealand.

I am an ordinary cricket supporter/observer, just like many people who mainly prefer the longer format of the game. So far, that’s it.

I am not a technical expert, but Edgbaston is the worst performance I have seen in any English team in more than 30 years of cricket competition. In these two tests, New Zealand surpassed us in every subject, and did almost everything on and off the court, and we did everything wrong there.

New Zealand is the party with six changes in the first test. They are almost, I dare say, the second XI. However, we were humiliated and beaten into the mud.

I did not thank God, but I regret that all those who spent their hard-earned money on the first day the house was almost full on clear weather were affected by this garbage. If the restrictions are expanded, this may be the only opportunity.

Based on the strength of this test, the only players I keep are Burns (just), Lawrence (because I think there is something there), Rutter (because he averaged 48 per game), Wood and Broad. Sorry Jimmy, but your best days are over, I’m not sure what you want to prove. The rest should return to their county and may stay there.

In the second round, the top seven all looked like rabbits caught in the headlights. Blassey will not hold the wicket for a few seconds in Surrey (if that is the case). Damn them, Bairstow, Woakes, Butler, Curran and Ali are currently playing T20! Rest and rotation? Give me a break.

In the five tests before Ashes, we don’t even know who our best top three are. Burns is on the field, and I personally think that he even Stokes or Butler will be the captain.

For the European Central Bank and those who support or try to prove the marginalization of the championship and the 100s… your agenda is not only destroying county cricket, but is slowly but surely leading to the decline of the England Test team.

The authorities almost destroyed the county championship, and now the cricket test is also advancing in the same way. But I’m not sure even if they are stupid enough to want to dismantle it: Test cricket in the UK made a lot of money. well done. If the standard continues to decline, it may not be so much in the future. If there is time to completely rethink and reorganize this great game, it is now.

New Zealand, I hope you will achieve good results in the first World Test Championship finals against the mighty Indian team this week. I will support you.

If someone says “batters” instead of “batsmen” again, I will release the Terminator! I wish you all a good day.

Doug Mind

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