A couple of things in life are sure: demise, duties and Britain’s administration messing up the same way over and over. At the point when Alastair Cook was made commander, and Andrew Strauss (respectable worker that he was) brought his moderate behind to the retirement back home, I truly trusted things would be unique. No longer would we need to persevere through this backward procedure of ‘sitting in the game’, probably fabricating pressure, and depending on the standard, worn out young men to take care of business. How wrong I was.
I guess I ought to have seen the signs
After all for what reason was Stuart Expansive made bad habit chief? It clearly wasn’t his structure with one or the other bat or ball. Perhaps it was compensation for transforming himself into a harmless medium pacer: ‘why bowl with any hostility or have a go at anything different when I can get a major gesture of congratulations from Andy Bloom for bowling three feet outside off stump day in and day out’? Absence of drive cost Britain the series against South Africa a couple of months prior. Despite the fact that a three seamer combo of Anderson, Expansive and Bresnan had neglected to inconvenience Darren Sammy and Tino Best prior in the late spring, they were given the obligation of bowling out Kallis and Co. Why?
Since those were the folks who won the Remains against the most fragile Australian group in living memory. Subsequently in the administration’s eyes they couldn’t possibly step out of line. We who anticipated the opposite against the Cricketboks – I cautioned more than once that we’d be outgunned by South Africa’s five man assault – are subsequently destroyed, and somewhat perplexed, why the normal, worn out saps have been chosen once more. This is, all things considered, the driest, least responsive surface a seamer could experience anyplace on the planet. Throughout recent months, Blossom has failed to remember that veritable speed and quality twist wins test matches – and that cliché rings considerably more genuine on surfaces like this one in Ahmedabad.
Instead of picking three common English seamers
An assault of Swann, Panesar, Kerrigan and Tredwell would have been more powerful. Alright, this is being witty, however you get my point. On the off chance that Monty won’t play on pitches like this one, when precisely would he say he will play? How might somebody with Blossom’s tremendous experience make such a central, and to be straightforward very humiliating, mistake of judgment? It’s all very well placing your confidence in ‘switch swing’, however Tim Bresnan is barely Waqar Younis. Swing won’t inconvenience quality players on the off chance that the bowler’s working at a walker 77mph.
The administration’s shortfalls don’t end with group choice. Britain’s methodology in the last meeting today was the very same as in the primary test against Pakistan recently. When confronted with the turning ball, our batsmen respond in such an anticipated way: we block it relentlessly, remain attached to the wrinkle, and in the end bat-cushion it to short leg. Blossom and Gooch have had a year to think of something else – that is a year of watching video film of folks like Michael Clarke moving their feet and skirting down the wicket – yet our batsmen produce the normal, worn out garbage.