Apparently we're going to win the Ashes easily!
It seems Ian Botham is more than a little bit confident that we'll win the Ashes next year. I don't mind betting that we'll never beat the Aussies "easily" in my lifetime. In the current series has failed once when they lot the second Test, and apart from that neither side has looked like winning, so I'm not sure I agree with Botham's assessment that "they are weak in the bowling attack".
They are undoubtedly weaker than they were but if they pick the correct line up all they're missing is a spinner. Lee, Clark, Johnson, Symonds or Watson and a spinner (possibly a mixture of Clarke, Katich and Krejza who did well today). I don't mind betting that Australia will find a way and our wickets won't be spin friendly so their lack of spin won't be such a factor as in India.
5 comments:
Can anyone explain why they left out Clark and played White???
Looks to me ominously as if they've filled the spinner gap now,too !
Yes, 8 wickets on debut isn't bad is it.
To the first comment, the short answer is no!
They left out Clark because they were cautious - not usually an Aussie trait. Given that Krejza went wicketless for over 200 in the warm-up and they didn't play him in the first three Tests, they clearly didn't really back him. I suspect thebelieved that they would need to bowl White instead of Krejza some of the time.
Agreed, but they still should have used Clarke (and Katich) as their back up for Krejza and played Clark!
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