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Former Test fast bowler Ryan Harris has been out stuart broada scathing assessment of Australiaahead of the quality of ash and tipped England Once again leaving the country without the coveted Kalash.
broad rated pat cumminsside of As “probably the worst Australian team ever” Which since lost 3-1 in judging in 2010/11 ben stokesThis outfit is England’s best since that victorious campaign.
Harris, who played three Tests in that series, said the former England fast bowler was far ahead in both cases.
“Absolutely not. They’ve got to be kidding themselves if they think this is the worst Australian team since the Ashes,” the 46-year-old said. reuters,
“Obviously, he’s in the media, so he’s getting publicity.
“We had some very good players but they were even better. England were unreal, relentless with bat and ball.”
While praising the quality of bowling of the current England team, Harris questioned how one can compare them with the strong England team captained by Andrew Strauss.
“Their batting is unproven. Jack Crawley, Ben Duckett are on our wickets. Joe Root has been out a number of times and hasn’t scored a century, right?” said Harris, who took 57 Ashes wickets at an average of 20.63 in the three series.
“So there’s a lot of unproven stuff there. Broad is obviously attracting interest, but you can’t sit there and say they’re the best team of all time because they haven’t even come here and played – and those who have played haven’t even won.”
Australia have won the last two home series 4–0 and defeated England 5–0 in 2013/14.
Now the Sheffield Shield-winning coach of South Australia, Harris was hopeful of the hosts retaining the vase, although he said England had a good chance of doing so. Their 15 year wait for test match victory is over In the country.
England’s hopes of a better performance will largely rest on the all-round performance of charismatic captain Stokes, who took 17 wickets against India in the recent home series.
Despite a relatively ordinary batting and bowling record in Australia compared to his lofty career standards, Harris inspired Stokes to a major Ashes victory.
Harris said Australia should target StokesAs in 2013/14 the team did without opposition captain Alastair Cook, who was England’s batting hero in the 2010/11 victory.
“We have to make sure we put Stokes under pressure,” Harris said.
“One thing we have done successfully in the past is put the England captain under pressure.
“We did that with Alastair Cook, not allowing him to dictate how he wanted to play and getting him good starts.
“It will be the same with Stokes if we can stop him with the ball.”
The opening match of the five-Test series will start from November 21 in Perth.
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