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    We’ve come a long way from ‘mental disintegration’.

    By Scott 2 years ago, mid-August Leave a comment on this post

    Steve Waugh would be horrified:

    John Buchanan believes his Ashes opponents have improved as a team unit since Andrew Flintoff’s injury-enforced absence. Buchanan has been impressed with the way England’s players have not sat back and looked to their stars to perform in consecutive Test wins over Pakistan.

    “I think what we have seen from them is a gradual build-up in terms of the way they’re playing, their teamwork, and responsibility being shared around the team, which I think has been a real plus for them,” Buchanan said in The Age. “It hasn’t been a case of turning to Freddie Flintoff all the time to take a wicket or turning to [Steve] Harmison or [Kevin] Pietersen to deliver something. They’ve actually had the ability to share it around … the likes of Cook, Bell, Panesar and now [Chris] Read’s come in.”

    This is probably all actually true. But Waugh would never have tolerated Buchanan saying such things if he had been in charge.
    I’ve not been able to watch this latest England season, so I can not really comment on what has been going on. I have a vague feeling that this latest England side could be said to be rather greater then the sum of its parts, which is a good sign for England.

    But like Steve Waugh, I was just about choking on my wheaties reading what Buchanan had to say.

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    One Response to “We’ve come a long way from ‘mental disintegration’.”

  • SpryCorpse wrote:
    August 14th, 2006 at 1.43 am

    I think it was just a psychological wake-up call to any of the Aussie players who’d been thinking that England were out of form, had too many injuries, blah blah…
    A reminder that there is altogether too much talent in this England squad. When they get fired up as a unit they can produce some great cricket. And what will fire them up more than the prospect of denying the Australians in Australia and retaining the Ashes?
    Good on Buchanan for the warning shot across the bows.

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