Ashes cricket

Clutching at straws but it's just our luck that the temperature in Adelaide is forecast to go down next week from 42 C to 23 C. Adelaide doesn't get much humidity but playing in 105 F can't be fun when you're not used to it.
 
One game is too few sample numbers to be used as a statistic. probably best described as an outlier, and not part of the wider statistical analysis of England performances.
 
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They talk about treating winning the Ashes down under seriously but I don't think they are serious at all. I think the players really care, but they aren't properly prepared in several ways.

If I were at the ECB winning down under would be my obsession.....Not the fecking size of pay checks.

I would be either recreating the pitches at the Australian grounds at a bespoke training centre, either with real dirt from there or using AI to properly recreate the conditions, keep it at the same temperature and air moisture.....Whichever worked. I would have the aggressive crowd audio and have bowling machines that match the usual Aussie bowlers they might expect.....I think they have that last one.

I would be testing all the players likely to play for England in those conditions, to find which ones responded best.

Because English culture encourages weak men, that's what we currently get when the pressure is on.....Players who fold and can't execute their skills when it matters. We need Boycotts and instead we have Popes.....and I say that knowing that Pope has the talent, but when it's uncomfortable and hard he doesn't produce.

We can't fully blame the players and captain, when the ECB themselves don't take winning the urn seriously enough.

Instead they think 5-0 results are acceptable just as long as the home matches sell out......Well, anyone with brains knows that the young won't turn up for these home matches if they don't think away results matter....to the extent that we get humiliated.
 
Stirlingsays said:
They talk about treating winning the Ashes down under seriously but I don't think they are serious at all. I think the players really care, but they aren't properly prepared in several ways.

If I were at the ECB winning down under would be my obsession.....Not the fecking size of pay checks.

I would be either recreating the pitches at the Australian grounds at a bespoke training centre, either with real dirt from there or using AI to properly recreate the conditions, keep it at the same temperature and air moisture.....Whichever worked. I would have the aggressive crowd audio and have bowling machines that match the usual Aussie bowlers they might expect.....I think they have that last one.

I would be testing all the players likely to play for England in those conditions, to find which ones responded best.

Because English culture encourages weak men, that's what we currently get when the pressure is on.....Players who fold and can't execute their skills when it matters. We need Boycotts and instead we have Popes.....and I say that knowing that Pope has the talent, but when it's uncomfortable and hard he doesn't produce.

We can't fully blame the players and captain, when the ECB themselves don't take winning the urn seriously enough.

Instead they think 5-0 results are acceptable just as long as the home matches sell out......Well, anyone with brains knows that the young won't turn up for these home matches if they don't think away results matter....to the extent that we get humiliated.
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The lack of proper preparation is very weird, isn't it? Other performance-based professions use simulation in the way you suggest to the nth degree. Tells me that the upper echelons of management are either incompetent or have no interest in the future of test cricket. Either way it's an insult to the players on both sides, Australian hosts, and the fans. As for poor Ollie Pope, he's got what golfers call the Yips...uncontrollable twitching of the right hand. Not a pretty sight. Time to concentrate on the football I feel!
 
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