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Originally Posted by
jackal2
The batting is shambolic. Truly embarrassing. We don't even give our (ageing) bowlers half a chance of making the game competitive.
Many years of prioritising cartoon cricket over the longer (proper) format of the game has left us with batsmen who would be more suited to playing baseball. Root aside, they have no idea how carefully craft an innings in the face of decent bowling. They're mentally and technically weak and the Aussies know that if they just bowl line and length and don't give too many easy runs away, the English batsmen will waft at something or play an incompetent defensive stroke before too long.