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Australia can play at different tempos, England know just to go really hard: Tim Paine

It would be advantage Australia during the Ashes as they can play at “different tempos”, while England only know how to play “really hard”, feels former Test skipper of the touring side Time Paine. Paine, a wicketkeeper-batter, had stepped down as Australia captain days before the last Ashes series at home due to a ‘sexting’ scandal and was replaced by pacer Pat Cummins as Test skipper. Australia defeated Ben Stokes’ England by two wickets in a thrilling Ashes opener at Edgbaston with Cummins scoring an unbeaten 44 and guiding the visitors to victory when things had started to look difficult. Ahead of the second Test at Lord’s from June 28, Paine, who made an unsuccessful bid to return to the Australia side, said, “They (Australia) can play at different tempos, they can play different s...
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England’s intent has unnerved Australia, they looked scared at Edgbaston: Ian Bell

Former England batter Ian Bell believes that England are still a better team than Australia despite their two-wicket loss at Edgbaston and said the Pat Cummins team looked scared in the first two days of the Test match. “I’d go as far to say that Australia have more to work on,” Bell was quoted wisden. “After the first two days at Edgbaston I was amazed how passive Australia were. It was like England used to play Ashes series in the really bad old days. Australia looked scared. I saw that in two examples. “First, in the field setting for England’s batters in the first innings. They had sweepers out on the off- and on-side after three overs. I’d never seen anything like it and as someone who has experienced the pressure cooker of an Ashes series – I won five out of seven – being afford...
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The Ashes 2023 | Rain delays start of final day to post-lunch

General view as fans sit in the stands with umbrellas at at Edgbaston, as rain delays the start of play on the fifth day of the first Ashes Test. | Photo Credit: Reuters The start of the fifth and final day of the Ashes series opener was delayed by heavy rain at Edgbaston on Tuesday (June 20).Players will take an early lunch at 12:30 p.m. local time. The Test won't start before 1:10 p.m. at the earliest.The covers are still on at the Birmingham ground but the rain has eased and the weather is forecast to improve in the afternoon.Australia needs 174 more runs and England seven more wickets to win. Chasing 281 to win, Australia is 107/3. Usman Khawaja is 34 not out and nightwatchman Scott Boland on 13 not out.Stuart Broad struck twice late on Monday (June 19) as England fought its way ba...
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Ashes 2023: Stuart Broad lashes out at ‘characterless and soulless’ Edgbaston surface

Stuart Broad was the pick of the bowlers for England but the seamer has lashed out on the “characterless and soulless” Edgbaston pitch after the end of second day’s play. “How can I be polite [about the pitch]?” Broad told the BBC. “It is a very slow, low surface that zaps the energy out of the ball. It is pretty characterless so far, pretty soulless, but you can only judge a surface towards the end of the match and see how it develops. “I’m not really a big no-ball bowler…. I have probably bowled more today than in a Test match day before. There’s no excuse. “But it is the first innings of an Ashes Test match, you have some big emotions there so you are trying to gain energy from the surface and maybe pushing a little bit too hard.” “It is certainly one of the slowest pitches I can r...
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Virat Kohli recalls how 35,000 people booed him at Edgbaston in 2018

By Virat Kohli’s admission, the failure of the 2014 series in England has always haunted him until he went on to score 149 in the first Test match at Edgbaston in 2018. In the RCB Podcast Season 2, Virat Kohli recalled how he was welcomed to the crease by the Edgbaston crowd in 2018. “My heart was pumping because all I could think of was the flashes of 2014. I walked in and there were about 35,000 people at the stadium and they all started booing the moment I entered the field. My heart started beating faster. They have this amazing ability to create an environment where you feel like I have got no chance here,” recalled Kohli. When India toured England in 2014, James Anderson was Virat Kohli’s nemesis with the right-arm pacer dismissing the India skipper on four occasions. Kohli co...