The Ashes

[Cheshire East Baggie]

Seems like it could be more of the same.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/arti...0yjkvxk43o

Must admit I’m happy to keep them as long as they’re learning from this ashes debacle.
We need to find bowlers who stay fit Potts is nowhere near the standard where as Tongue should have been in from the start along with Bethal. Also the spin department needs sorting.

I don't see how McCullum can learn anything from this, except that his cunning plans (Wood, Archer, Bashir, Smith etc etc) have mostly turned out to be shite or injured when it really mattered. As for Stokes, apart from his obvious physical frailty, his captaincy on-field has been very poor throughout this series.

These guys thrive on being different, being outrageous, breaking the "rules", creating a closed shop of like-minded fun-loving swashbucklers. Is there really a world in which they consider players in form rather than just pick players they believe to be "one of us"? Will they acknowledge that they need to use a competent wicket keeper and spin bowler? Can't see it myself.

Stokes owes nobody anything after his heroics over the years. McCullum on the other hand needs to get some white-ball results. If the T20 Word Cup goes badly, surely he and Key are done?