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There is a political theory that people vote not on the basis of self-interest, but on the basis of their values. They are happy to hurt themselves, as long as they remain true to themselves.
England when there were eight against three harry brook Gone in the middle. Facing his very first ball, he dropped the wicket. Mitchell StarcSwing, miss, and smile.
“Most of the time when I’ve been overly aggressive, we’ve lost early wickets,” Brooks said. Before the third test in Adelaide“I tried to counter-attack and put them back under pressure,”
True to yourself till the end.
Brook scored 41 runs in 34 balls. This was the highest score of the day as 20 wickets fell and England found themselves in trouble again – One day on the wrong side of the game.
It was a moment that divided political opinion throughout the stadium. Commentators were falling out of their chairs, casually stunned, ignoring the fact that three of their colleagues had just died and a fourth would soon die. When the score was 16 for four, three England players stopped defending. Joe Root Recorded the longest duck of his career in 15 balls. Which is the biggest crime?
“The pitch is doing a lot of work, if I’m honest,” former England bowler Stuart Broad said on SEN radio. “Test match bowlers don’t need this kind of movement to look dangerous.”
This caused many disappointments ash The series, at the top of the list, is that we never saw the end of the story. For years, England have spoon-fed the public the nonsense of running towards danger, doubling down and playing even harder. It has become completely addictive.
And yet in Australia, they blinked. Caused the loss in Brisbane ben stokes Pleading with his players to “fight”. He called his changing room “no place for weak men”. The result has been a different England.
On a flat pitch in Adelaide, with temperatures over 40 degrees, he blocked it after choosing a steep batting line-up.
Australian captain Pat Cummins’ views on England’s performance with the bat in that instance were “astonishing”. “It was about 40 degrees, it was a very flat wicket and they closed the shops for half the day so I was very happy.”
And then here, with Australia All out for 152 on a wicket that was seaming everywhere, only for Brook to run into the danger they had been talking about for so long.
Buzzball has been a cricket social experiment. Born from a coachman, Brendon McCullumWho was inspired by the no-consequence approach to cricket after the death of Australian batsman Phil Hughes. And from a captain, Ben Stokes, who suffered from mental health issues of his own, took over a team deep in the depths of a Test win in 17, Covid-impacted ruts, and felt the need for change. It is former England captain Mike Brearley, who later trained as a psychiatrist, who first made the connection between buzzball and its response to male mental health.
McCullum has always opposed this name, saying that this name was given to him by someone else. But ‘Brendan’ was also like that. This is his identity even today.
Of the four top scorers in a remarkable day’s play, three had the highest strike-rates where the risk was matched with the reward. When Brook was finally out for 41, he had scored 62% of England’s total of 66 and almost a third of Australia’s score. He hit two sixes, one over extra cover and the other when he followed a length ball over midwicket. This was phenomenal batting that was only possible with a great deal of skill, built with a strategy that had a fair amount of evidence behind it. What was Brook’s score for England when he entered the crease with three wickets down for less than 30 runs? 186, 26, 123 and 158.
There was Will Jack in Melbourne, England, He has five T20 centuries to his nameAt number eight. This was a special opportunity for him to stick to the process that got him here by playing aggressive cricket that suits the aggressive line-up. They are still not out of the game, trailing by only 46 runs at the end, but they are still behind.
Throughout the tour, their run-rate has been the lowest in the 16 matches played under Stokes and McCullum. A large part of this is due to the quality bowlers Australia have, but it is still indicative of where true, if not excessive, delusional self-belief lies I have become angry out of a desire to do the ‘right’ thing.
Naturally, this is easier said than done. Stick to your guns throughout, collapse in a heap as happened in Perth and these same pages could read about a team stubborn to the point of stupidity. But this England team blocks out the noise. They do not care about the opinions of others because to do so would be to deviate from the values they believed in, even if it would harm them.
But as it happened, in Melbourne they got their way.