God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[Professer E]

100 percent.  Inconsistent selection and performance.  Poor plans.

Blind faith in Warner.  Why?

So many starts batting, very few ever went on with it.  Too many soft dismissals to Ali and Root's average off spin.

Marnus and Smith stank, Head was average and Carey was very poor after the Bairstow incident.

Bowling - poor.  Too NSW centric and paid lip service to the rotation policy - Starc can't maintain effort for three tests and this was essentially a six test series.  This cost us the series IMO- bowlers were cooked after the third test.  Losing Lyon really hurt and lacked faith in Murphy until far too late.  The bowling plans were laughably amateur at best....I'd be laying this directly at Ronnie and the captain's feet and asking them why?

Series was played in a nasty, street brawl no holds barred manner, picked up by and magnified by the English press.  I didn't watch much as I didn't enjoy it and also thought the on field cricket both skills-wise and "spirit of the game" stuff was very average at best.