God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[Milhanna13]

Our batting has certainly ben disappointing this series. Smith and Khawaja did OK early, but they've done nothing since. It is taking a big individual effort, instead of good, team stuff, since the end of test #1. Not sustainable. The guys need to look at how they're getting out and what to do about it.
Selection - I could wax lyrical about that, but I don't really want to. Suffice to say that some of the decisions have been mystifying. But there have to be changes for the last test, no matter what the result. Reputations mean nothing at the pointy end; it is how you perform when the chips are down.

The first dig was embarassing.  most clubs have a fine system that if you get a start (maybe 20-odd in club cricket) and dont go on with it, you shell out $......  what about the 8 best bats in aus all getting starts and not one of them putting their head down and grinding out a score??  did the extra bat mean they all thought someone else would do it??  if they had seen off woakes and broad, and hit moeen out of the attack, that would have left a tiring wood and a past it anderson, with no stokes.  they should have made 500.  there were runs there for anyone who really wanted them.    continually getting out to soft dismissals from moeen, shows how they are going