Ahead of the ECB's review of the tour... Ian Chappell has penned an interesting piece on where England's Ashes defense went wrong: see
Swing woe, sweet nothing. The key points are as follows:
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{i} It all goes back to the Champions Trophy [....] England went off the rails even before they got to Australia
{ii} [t]heir biggest problem was their lack of a plan B [...] England have all these plans when the ball swings and no imagination when it doesn't
{iii} I thought at the time that Flintoff was the right choice, and he did a fair job up to Melbourne, but England undoubtedly missed Michael Vaughan's adaptability
{iv} There must have been some England players at Brisbane who walked out thinking "we've picked the wrong team"
{v} it would have helped if he'd been deployed correctly [...] He [Panesar] bowled to field placings for Giles but Giles [wasn't] playing
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Nothing too new or contentious... but probably summing up in a few moments what the ECB review will conclude after labouring for weeks!
28-01-2007, 11:52 PM
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