Unfortunately rain ruined this test. It would have been nice and exciting to have the oval test as the decider HOWEVER the poms have only themselves to blame. They should have won the 1st test and lost the 2nd test because of irresponsible batting.
What did we learn?
First to the poms. Their batting has arrived. They positively flogged our bowling and made it look send rate. Bairstow returned to form both as a batsman and WK. In terms of bowling what has happened to Jimmy Anderson. I had previously said he could play until he is 50 in England. In this series he has barely swung the ball. The reason he is one of the all-time greats is his ability to bowl late outswingers. If he had done this in this series the poms would have already won the Ashes. both Wood and Woakes need to be in the team. ( Woakes can swing the ball but anderson cannot. Go figure.)
Now to us.
Our batting is suspect to late swing as usual and high pace. ( We are lucky the poms have three 90mph bowlers injured.) Smith clearly affected by Wood's pace as he was by Archers in the last Ashes in the UK. Our bowling is looking very poor. Cummins is easily out best bowler but appears to have no clue. He is like a shot duck. Why are we bowling so many poor short balls that get hit for six? Crawley has a weakness to hitting on the up outside the offstump. Why di we not bowl to him there. The easiest way to reduce runs is to take wickets yet our fields are set to save runs and they do not even do that.
Why di we not select a spinner on a pitch that is always friendly to spinners?
We were lucky it rained for two days.
Onto the oval on friday!
Just a thought but few bowlers on each side will be playing in the next Ashes
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