There’s a big different between feasting on medium pacers and genuine fast bowler.
Pope was hopeless in the ashes and hapless today. Pace sorts the good from the hype.
Don’t remember the Aussies looking that great against Archer, the medium pace Broad has Warners number memorised.
Crawley needs a break from the spit light and as has been mentioned go back to his coach or find a coach and work on what’s needed at the very top level.
He averages 31 in county cricket when all the talk was of wickets that were tailored for medium pace 70-80mph county bowlers and since the ECB and ground men have been working together a lot more he has hardly played. He has also played all his test cricket against Australia away, India home and away, SA Away, West Indies away, NZ home and Pakistan home so played all his test cricket against the established and top crop of international test cricket of which 3 of these have arguable the top new ball bowlers in the world in Cummins, Hazelwood, Boult, Bumra, etc.
Not making excuses but give a young lad some slack. He needs a break and see when he comes back how he performs then but he needs some support from a coach
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