Nobody with a brain said it had. We still have exactly the same problems as the winter, no openers and a dodgy number 3. Plus we rely on 2 pensioners with the ball. We may get short term success but it is being built on quicksand and will fall apart very quickly as it has today.I know people will say England have won the series but this is why I think it’s too early to say their Test Cricket had turned the corner. What Bairstow did in the last test was amazing but you can’t expect that to happen every test. If they are just going to play white ball cricket in Tests then on balance I expect them to lose more than they win
I think most England fans here were always pretty sanguine about it all, in the end we just enjoyed Root and Bairstows heroics, but yeah we know that Crawley and Lees aren't test openers, Pope isn't a number 3, and Foakes isn't great.I know people will say England have won the series but this is why I think it’s too early to say their Test Cricket had turned the corner. What Bairstow did in the last test was amazing but you can’t expect that to happen every test. If they are just going to play white ball cricket in Tests then on balance I expect them to lose more than they win
Someone set his attack to 10/10 and forget that this is a test match...unlike the previous one. Clean slate.has Stokes totally lost the plot .This is a test match not a one day game.No excuse for that approach and don’t excuse it because of the previous test.I think this new approach should be tempered with common sense. Totally shocked at the insult to the spectators
For some reason Sehwag and Blackwood in the same sentence got me good! HAHAHASomeone set his attack to 10/10 and forget that this is a test match...unlike the previous one. Clean slate.
Unless you're Sehwag or Blackwood, you don't need to play like this. You don't need to score 290 in 40 overs to win the game.