England fast bowler Stuart Broad (AFP Image)
Australia thrashed England 4-0 to retain the urn in fast bowler Pat Cummins’ first series as Test captain.
Veteran England fast bowler Stuart Broad has admitted that the 4-0 defeat in Australia in the 2021/22 Ashes is not a realistic series in his view, saying the “high level of performance” in the spectators and the passion of the players There was a shortage because of pandemic restrictions.
Australia thrashed England 4-0 to retain the urn in fast bowler Pat Cummins’ first series as Test captain. It was also a series that was heavily affected by the presence of COVID-19 restrictions, with Cummins and Travis Head missing one match each due to being indirectly or directly affected by the virus.
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“Nothing was harsher than the last Ashes series. In my mind, I don’t classify it as the original Ashes. Ashes cricket is by definition an elite game with a lot of passion and players at the top of their game.”
“There was nothing high-level performance about that series because of the Covid restrictions. Not being able to have training facilities, travel, socialize. I wrote it as a zero series,” Broad was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.
Broad played only three Tests on the 2021/22 Ashes tour, taking 13 wickets at 26.30. With England currently riding the wave of revolutionizing Test cricket under head coach Brendon McCullum, Broad has extra excitement ahead of the Ashes series starting June 16.
“I think I’m even more excited than I was for my first Ashes. In 2009 I was apprehensive and very nervous. It was all very tiring because I was so into it but now I’m getting chills. I love it I’m used to it and I’m used to the way we’re playing.”
“When you take the result out of the equation it takes the pressure off so really if our only goal is to entertain then I can do that. It’s my natural way of playing now and I’ll happily do something as fun to watch or as silly as being ‘Nighthawk’.”
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“We can entertain as a team and if we win spectacularly. But the one thing we will do is enjoy it and put on a show.”
Broad currently has 576 wickets and can become only the second England player to take 600 wickets in Tests if he takes 24 wickets in the upcoming Ashes. Asked about the milestone approaching, Broad commented on not thinking about it.
I don’t think about 600 wickets. It doesn’t bother me at all. Just because I reached that stage last year when I was so frustrated with getting out that I thought I would never take another wicket. So everything is a big bonus for me now.”
I always saw it as winning the series but Baz said winning a Test is an incredible achievement so enjoy the moment. And she is very right. In England we can get so hung up on things to come, but it’s about what’s happening now.”
“What I am trying to say is that whether I play one or five, you will not talk about getting an angry Stuart Broad out. It would be ‘we’re all in this together. We’ve got five Tests against Australia. All of us will be needed whether it is one wicket or 20. So let’s get ready for this.
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