Whisper him, but maybe Alex Hartley was right. In October, he shouted the aptitude of the women of England, a brave decision that had not made the transition from an expert.
And here we are now, with the players who criticized to support another high profile crisis. When the Heather Knight team embarked on the daily/nightly ashes test in the MCG in the small hours of Thursday morning, they will do so in the hope of avoiding 16-0 laundering against a specific Australian team, such as what Grace Harris said, Grace Harris, expressed it, to 'embarrass them'.
He suspects that ship has sailed for a long time. England has not only lost six games of the Six White Ball, but often seem to be playing a completely different sport. And Hartley's comments have sounded more relevant to each Misfield, each fallen capture. There have been too many of both, and much more also.
He had put the ball rolling after England was eliminated from the T20 World Cup in October on the one hand decent but not exceptional from the Western Indies in Dubai, partly because six caught, partly because they seemed without rudges without a gentleman, who suffered An injury to the hamstring while hitting and had to look from the barrier while his team disintegrated in the field. He was later crying.
Hartley told him Special test for the party: 'Australia has 15 or 16 genuine athletes. You look at our team, I will not name names, but if you look at them, you know it.
'You know who is blowing a board and who does not: 80 percent of the England team is fit and enough athletic, but there are girls on that side that disappoint the team when it comes to being in shape.
England has been humiliated in Australia and is looking at the canyon of a laundering of 16-0
Sophie Ecclestone refused to be interviewed by Alex Hartley after the comments made by the station (right) last year
'There will be questions around the captain, management, physical state, around what happens on this side of England, and rightly. These girls are paid hundreds of thousands of pounds now, and makes a big difference '.
It was the type of indirect criticism that the face of the male team faces regularly. But, despite everything that is discussed of equality of wages and hundreds of doubles, women are still getting used to scrutiny.
Interpretingly for England, Hartley, a World Cup winner in 2017, was less easy to rule out that a male journalist who has not played the game at any serious level, and that could be more easily accused of verifying the body. She had hit a nerve.
This was obvious when Sophie Ecclestone, one of England's few successes in Australia, refused to be interviewed by her at the limit after defeat in the first T20 in Sydney, where only Sophia Dunkley scored more than 20 and the hosts wrapped 57 strong . -Comvantic Conscons.
That left Hartley complaining that the members of the tour party had “given the cold shoulder”, and added to the growing sense of a trip harassed by a siege mentality.
That is a problem at best. In Australia, as the male team has discovered since I had the recklessness of winning three tests for an entry there in 2010-11, it can develop a macabre impulse. And he brings out the internal thug of Australians: why express the desire to “embarrass” the opponents?
Clearly, Australia has the advantage in some crucial areas. Alana and Georgia Wareham's legs of Alana and Georgia Wareham has represented 22 WICKETS at age 11, leaving Ecclestone's left arm, for upper class that has been without remedy.
Beth Mooney has been almost motionless at the top of the order of Australia, with an average of 60, while the best player in England, Nat Sciver-Brunt, has been largely anonymous: 158 races at 26 years and two wickets A 75. Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Tammy Beaumont, two other older people have averaged 23 with the bat. Knight has shown spirit and class, but too often has cut a lonely figure.
England games management, field and physical aptitude have had intense scrutiny
Captain Heather Knight has resisted, but it has been a lonely and recently marginalized figure with an injury to the hamstrings
Chief coach Jon Lewis admitted that his team is not as Atlético as an Australian side determined to “embarrass” tourists
But the least measurable aspects of the game (the celebrities, the fallen catches, the possibilities of bungled exhaustion, turning both into two with the bat and the two in which a non -complementary light in England have also shone.
When Amy Jones, her experienced Wicktkeeper, could not get a single from the last ball of Melbourne's hate with just 11 Lauren Bell for company and 22 races were still needed to win, there were reasonable questions about the management of her game. Bell was fired to the next ball and the game ended. It seemed basic things.
So was Hartley wrong? Speaking before the third T20, where England was removed by 90 and was surpassed by Mooney (94*) on his own, Chief coach Jon Lewis admitted large pieces of his hypothesis.
“I would say that Australia is a much more athletic team than us, more agile, look faster, sometimes they look more powerful,” he told TNT Sports. 'Is that the reason we are not winning Cricket matches here? No. I think his discipline and his skill level have been higher. '
Lewis went on to make some broader points about Australian outdoor culture compared to that of England. And, although it is easy to make fun, I was not wrong: the history of men's ashes is full of crucial captures from England, from Fred Tate to Graham Thorpe, and less full of Australian glasses.
“We definitely need to be faster, and we can access more energy, sure,” Lewis said. 'If you are talking about whether or not we can run marathons, we don't need to do it. We need to be fit for the purpose.
But are they? Australia, it is necessary to say it, it is a great team of all time. They almost never lose at home and, unlike England, they have reacted to their disappointment of the World Cup by becoming stronger.
However, England looks like a team without trust, and in too many short areas in class. With Lewis already answering questions about his future, everything feels like the last three visits of men.
Australia is a great team of all time, but England has folded in front of the pressure
The heads will roll, because that is what happens when England is filled in the ashes.
It remains to be seen if Hartley's evaluation earns the attention he deserves from any captain and coach take the team to summer at home. They cannot say that they have not been warned.
England still has XI test outlets
At the end of last year, this column chose its XI test by 2024. Since these selections are based more on the individual achievements than the success of the team, there were five players from England (Ben Duckett, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith and Gus Atkinson) and only an Australian (Josh Hazlewood).
When Wisden Cricket monthly Recently he did the same, his team was identical, apart from Matt Henry in New Zealand replacing Hazlewood, so there are no Australians.
They never slowly offend where it is not intended, Fox Sports described this 'bazbulls ** t'. However, a few days later, the ICC had a chance, adjusting the WCM Selection only at the same time, with Pat Cummins replacing Atkinson. An institution that could not be accused of English bias had chosen four poms and an Australian.
Nobody says this means that England is a better team than Australia. But everyone seems to think that they have more players in the team of the year.
Did the omission of Pat Cummins of a test team of the year really worth?
The spirit of the Crick Cojea in Abu Dhabi
When will the hitters learn to stay until the ball is dead?
Apparently immutation for the destiny of Jonny Bairstow in Lord's in 2023, Tom Curran de Gulf Giants left its fold before a launch of the Kied Pollard of my Emirates had reached goalkeeper Nicholas Pooran during an ILT20 game in Abu Dhabi.
Curran (right) leaves its fold before the ball is dead … but receives a break
With the ball still live, Pooran came out of the bonds, and the referee of television handed Curran correctly. But the giant coach, Andy Flower, got involved, and Curran was inexplicably removed.
To add to injustice, the time was enough to help giants to victory. The spirit of the Crick Cojea.
Do you remember this, Saxid?
Who could blame the Western Indies Jomel Warrican for giving Sajid Khan of Pakistan a sample of his own Kabbadi celebration after launching Sajid to square the series of tests in fine?
Sajid Khan (right) gave Jomel Warrican his firm firm in fine at the beginning of his test
But the Spinner Warrican of the Western Indies recovered his and helped draw the series with a family celebration.
Warrican had helped rescue the western Indies of 38 by seven the first day, scoring 36 not and 18, and returning matches of matches of nine by 70.
Work done: Celebration of allowed revenge.