Re: The Ashes: Adelaide.
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 10:54 am
Its a cyclic point all the time. It seems a lazy conclusion. When England were successful people complained the pitches were dead in counties and too many huge scores. Now they have become more bowler friendly and people complain, or countys produce spinning wickets and people complain they are unfair, and the spinners produce from them are just profiting from easy wickets. Leach is the prime example, they even seemed to go as far as inventing a chucking backstory to forgive themselves for not picking him.
The same was true of Australia. People said when they were unbeatable that Shield cricket was strong because of 6 teams meaning all the talent was condensed and made it very tough. Then they started losing, and the shield structure was to blame. Cant have it both ways. These just seem like people inventing reasons.
Its on display above. No variety of pitches in Australia or England. Australian wickets are turning into India ones, dead and little pace, etc. If this is true, then why are English batsman, who are apparently struggling because conditions are too bowler friendly, not finding batting remarkably easy? This doesnt make sense at all, the argument is flawed.
The fact is, regardless of conditions, these players are not stepping up because they arent good enough. We arent identifying the right talent and managing them well enough once inside the setup.
Yet, we retain a coach as leader of development at the ECB who has a very bad track reccord of developing his own talent..... dont blame pitches, blame him
The same was true of Australia. People said when they were unbeatable that Shield cricket was strong because of 6 teams meaning all the talent was condensed and made it very tough. Then they started losing, and the shield structure was to blame. Cant have it both ways. These just seem like people inventing reasons.
Its on display above. No variety of pitches in Australia or England. Australian wickets are turning into India ones, dead and little pace, etc. If this is true, then why are English batsman, who are apparently struggling because conditions are too bowler friendly, not finding batting remarkably easy? This doesnt make sense at all, the argument is flawed.
The fact is, regardless of conditions, these players are not stepping up because they arent good enough. We arent identifying the right talent and managing them well enough once inside the setup.
Yet, we retain a coach as leader of development at the ECB who has a very bad track reccord of developing his own talent..... dont blame pitches, blame him