Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
Agree with all the reasons cited over the course of this thread, especially the one Jackal mentioned, which is this modern mentality of trying to score like in a one-day game in test cricket - which players and captains like to sell as 'being positive', but is really just playing frivolous shots and refusing to take responsibility for your innings.

Of course there is also the underlying problem that having sold the rights to satellite TV, basically nobody under 30 who didn't attend a fee-paying school cares a jot about cricket, so the pool of players to select from is getting smaller and more restricted to the mentally fragile group we are used to seeing collapse time after time.
Hmmm (nicked from Twitter don’t know if it’s true)

Of all the male Batters to have made their debut for England since 2011...

~95% have been white
~77% were privately educated
~64% were born in the first half of the school year
Only 36% averaged 30+ (1 player 40+)

I think we have an issue with talent ID & development.