The Brisbane Test

[Professer E]

Our blokes rocked up not switched on, when they did turn on the poms were revealed to be a side with a couple of very good players plus more than a couple of blokes just making up the numbers.  Even with the warm up matches they aren't playing as a unit - some of the dismals were very soft, park cricket stuff.  On paper they should bat to 9 but reality is that they don't. 

When they are still interested Broad and Anderson make some of our blokes look like monkeys but they have little or no support.  When Stokes arrives they will be a much better balanced unit.

At the same time we aren't a great side either, we're fortunate to have a sprinkling of absolute top liners within the team.