Tag: The Ashes
Cultural change is hard but necessary for embattled English cricket team
As England lost in Sydney yesterday, the grit and determination they applied to take the game into a fifth day, and make Australian fans and players a bit nervous about whether a late collapse was in order, was admirable and indicative of their slow but steady improvement across the series.
England need to remember cricket’s humble and gentlemanly roots if they...
With England deciding against a warm-up game with the pink ball, in line with their philosophy to decline tour matches to prioritise team-building and net sessions, their temperament with the bat was minute, save for Joe Root’s drought-breaking century, and their bowling and fielding under the floodlights were too erratic and erroneous to allow their batters to build a lead.
