• Opposition before first Test has mainly been players with little experience
• Coach calls for ‘at least one match against the A team before each series’Trevor Bayliss has called on the England and Wales Cricket Board and Cricket Australia to supply more competitive tour matches in the lead up to an Ashes series after England’s final warm-up ended with just a single wicket’s reward for a brutal day in the field and a draw against untried youngsters.
England’s opposition before Thursday’s first Test has largely comprised players with little or no first-class experience and the head coach said: “Both Australia and England should be getting together and having at least one match against the A team before each series. I know when Australia depart to England there are similar questions asked, that’s the way it is. From the point of view of these three games I don’t contemplate we could have done any more. Ive already mentioned it to [England’s director of cricket Andrew] Strauss and I will mention it to Pat Howard [Strauss’s Australian counterpart] when I see him too.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk