I don't think England are stronger on paper or on grass. I think it's pretty even.before the tour started I thought we could retain the ashes perhaps with a narrow win or a draw.
The Aussie bowlers in Oz conditions are better than ours, if they stay fit as has been said before, it's advantage Australia.
We have actually competed in the tests and been let down in sessions by bowlers or batsmen. It's 0-2 and the scoreboard never lies.
Think of it like this thou. Take Smith out of your team and that's the impact Stokes not playing has had on ours, only if Smith don't play someone else skippers and you need another batsmen. We need a world class allrounder and the Tailsman of the team.
He's as important as Root and we cannot balance the team without him. Yes he is only one player but it's his attitude and nature we are missing. We look like half a team.we are getting run over and cannot fight back. Stokes won't give it up and he drags everyone else up with him.
There's different opinions on here whether Ben should be allowed to play or not, different views of what he did, he may be charged, he may not.at the moment he has not been charged with anything.
The back up players, some are not good enough it's really that simple. A few players have carried us in the last couple of years, in England our bowlers get assistance and can paper over the cracks.
As an England fan, I'm a bit sad but not distraught the Ashes are slipping away, we won't lose 5-0 like the last tour-and we had more world class players then.
we need to fight and compete as much as we can,England have the same problems now as we did 2 years ago-lack of a specialist spinner and lack of quality batsmen.
Your a decent cricket fan, you must know Australia are not great compared to a few years ago. The two teams are quite close together.
If the test series was in England right now what would you have the score at?
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