Big statement of former cricketer, said – Winning test series in Australia is more difficult than winning Olympic gold.
New Delhi. The Ashes Series is currently being played in Australia. Australia and England (Australia vs England) have been facing each other in the Ashes series for the last 100 years. England has not won a Test series in Australia (Australia vs England) for a long time. Even in winning Test matches in Australia, England are struggling. Meanwhile, former England spinner Monty Panesar has made a big claim. He says that winning the Test series in Australia is more difficult than winning the gold medal in the Olympics. Monty Panesar also told the reason for this.
At present, England are trailing 0-2 in the five-match Ashes series. The third test is going on in Adelaide. The England team has lagged by 86 runs in the first innings. From this it can be estimated that what is the condition of England in Australia. The England team had reached Australia under the leadership of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum with the intention of ending the 14-year winning drought. However, the team lagged behind badly and was on the verge of losing the series in the third Test itself.
Meanwhile, Monty Panesar recently spoke to India Today and discussed what has gone wrong for Stokes and Co. in the ongoing Ashes series. He also talked about England’s famous 2010–11 Ashes victory in Australia, which he experienced firsthand. Panesar has said that the England team did not get warm-up matches so that they could find out whether baseball would work here or not.
Why did England face trouble in Australia? On this, Panesar said, “I think the way England have played on fast, bouncy pitches has been wrong. It becomes more difficult to play high in those conditions. In England, you can avoid this because the ball does not bounce as much, but it is very difficult to adjust from low bounce to high bounce. Apart from this, England’s batsmen are aggressive from the beginning, which creates problems.” Panesar also said that dropping catches is also a reason for defeat.
Very difficult to win in Australia
Panesar further said about the Australian challenges, “I think the biggest difference is that it is very difficult to win in Australia. For England, it happens maybe once every 20 years. In the Ian Botham era, teams would come a few months earlier, play against the state teams and adapt to the conditions, because it takes time. Now it is not like that. It is more difficult to win in Australia than winning Olympic gold, which happens only once every four years. It’s almost like competing in three or four Olympics and then winning gold. This is the level of challenge you have to face here, but hopefully they have learned from their mistakes.”
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