10-13-2016, 09:24 PM
You send a 3rd string team of bowlers into a series you get the results you got. Still, more important Hazelwood and Starc prepared for the Test Series. Hopefully we don't prepare flat tracks again this year. Not only are we sick of them it does the team no good when they have to travel.
Didn't expect to win on the sub-continent. Everyone else gets flogged 3-0 over there these days too. England beaten 3-0 by the Pakis, South Africa and New Zealand beaten 3-0 by India, and I assume England will suffer the same fate. It's not just us. By contrast sub-continent sides get flogged when they get out of Asia bar Pakistan. India and Sri Lanka useless outside the sub continent. Ashwin is the all time superstar at home but terrible away. Unless you have real world class spinners the sub-continent pitches will be doctored. You have no way of preparing as we can't simulate those conditions here.
Didn't expect to win on the sub-continent. Everyone else gets flogged 3-0 over there these days too. England beaten 3-0 by the Pakis, South Africa and New Zealand beaten 3-0 by India, and I assume England will suffer the same fate. It's not just us. By contrast sub-continent sides get flogged when they get out of Asia bar Pakistan. India and Sri Lanka useless outside the sub continent. Ashwin is the all time superstar at home but terrible away. Unless you have real world class spinners the sub-continent pitches will be doctored. You have no way of preparing as we can't simulate those conditions here.