While Shoaib Bashir's bowling rightly deserves praise, England's change in approach with the bat will be key to victory in Australia
While Shoaib Bashir's bowling rightly deserves praise, England's change in approach with the bat will be key to victory in Australiaat Trent Bridge was on Sunday evening, this was a victory achieved by the three centuries England scored over the course of both innings.Stokes pinpointed the importance in particular of those performances from Brook and Root when his team were up against it having conceded a first-innings deficit of 41.
On the past three Ashes tours that has been the team’s downfall, with just five centuries scored by Englishmen Down Under across the past 15 Tests. Last time, in the Covid-ravaged series of 2021-22,was England’s lone century-maker and even that came in Sydney at 3-0 down when the series was already lost.
His home Ashes record, four hundreds in 20 matches, better reflects the stature of a batter who is set to overtakeStokes now knows he has the firepower in his batting line-up to post the big totals his team needs to compete in that Ashes.will usually get innings off to fast starts but it is the middle order of Pope, Root, Brook and Stokes that will hold the key to winning in Australia.
But as well as his three hundreds in that series, there were five other players who reached three figures – Sir Andrew Strauss, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell and Matt Prior. Overall, England scored nine centuries in the series, including double hundreds from Cook and Pietersen.This was only the fourth time in the Bazball era England have managed three centuries or more across a single Test.
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