Just over a month ago,Australia were thought to be nailed on to continue their domination over England in the Ashes. How could so many have got it so inaccurate? The cracking (if apocryphal) tale goes that after the 1989 Ashes Test series Graham Gooch left a message on his phone’s answering machine that went: “Please leave a message as I’m out, probably lbw Alderman”. And lo did people chortle at Gooch’s self-deprecating English humour and admire Alderman’s 80-odd wickets in two Ashes series in England. salubrious times. nowadays, or not so much. nowadays,England’s pace attack own Australia. And you wonder: might any of these current Australian batsmen leave a message on their phone (or a meme on their Twitter, or whatever) along the lines of: Sorry I can’t take your call because I’m out c Root b wide going hard at a full-length out-swinger early doors because in Australia deliveries don’t tend to deviate a massive amount even early doors and you can play through the line and go hard at the red rock and smite it through the covers and it’s only bounce you have to worry approximately and you don’t worry approximately that much because its likely to be consistent because Australian wickets are all so ‘salubrious’”?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com