As Travis Head was spanking Australia to victory in a exceptional two-day Ashes Take a look at in Perth, England knew what was coming.
Not solely would they be 1-0 down within the five-match collection however they might even be destroyed by the house media after throwing away a place of power with a raft of injudicious pictures.
Yep, Bazball was about to get battered.
It was no shock, then, that the West Australian group, which had referred to as Ben Stokes “cocky”, Joe Root “average” and England’s strategy “careless thrash batting” earlier than a ball had been bowled, hammered the vacationers’ Optus Stadium horror present.
The Sunday Occasions, beforehand the West Australian Sunday Occasions, stated on its entrance web page that Head’s ‘Travball’ had “turned the tables on the pathetic Poms”, with its again web page stating that England had been “Pommelled” and “Bazballl flipped on its head”.
Elsewhere, Daniel Brettig in The Age stated England batted like “lemmings” by driving on the up of their second innings, with Ollie Pope, Harry Brook and Joe Root all dismissed in that style as three wickets fell for no runs in six deliveries amid a collapse of 6-39.
Bretting referred to as England’s batting “vibe-based” and added that Bazball “should share equal billing with Slow Horses for the most entertaining limited series to come out of the UK” in years. Ouch!
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Sky Sports activities pundit Hussain seems to be at how England have been Bazballed by Travis Head in Perth and the way they’ll now be ‘hammered’ by the media
Plus, as cricket.com.au remarked that the vacationers had gone from “Bazball-brilliant” on day one as their ferocious tempo assault ripped by Australia to “boiled lollies” 24 hours later en path to a “humiliating defeat”, with Head’s Travball “pricking their pride”.
Boycott: I can not take this group significantly
The UK media additionally received their flamethrowers out, thoughts you, with headlines in The Telegraph calling England “gutless” and “self-destructive” and saying their batting was an “affront to Test cricket”. The phrase “feeble surrender” was utilized by The Mail.
The Mail’s Lawrence Sales space urged Zak Crawley, who bagged the ninth pair by an England opener and first since Sky Sports activities’ Michael Atherton in 1999, ought to “have no more than one Test to save his career”, including “many believe he’s lucky to have got this far”.
Crawley was twice out driving Mitchell Starc within the first over.
England’s Zak Crawley was twice out for nought within the Perth Take a look at
We’ll go away the ultimate say to Sir Geoffrey Boycott, by no means a person to mince his phrases, with the previous England batter writing in The Telegraph that he “cannot take this team seriously” as they “keep throwing away Test matches by doing the same stupid things”.
“They never learn because they never listen to anyone outside their own bubble, because they truly believe their own publicity,” added an indignant Boycott.
The swiftness of the sport in Perth means England now have virtually two weeks earlier than they subsequent face Australia within the day-night second Take a look at in Brisbane from December 4.
They will in all probability anticipate additional media maulings in that point.
Ashes collection in Australia 2025-26
All instances UK and Eire
- First Take a look at (Perth – November 21-25): Australia beat England by eight wickets
- Second Take a look at (day/night time): Thursday December 4 – Monday December 8 (4am) – The Gabba, Brisbane
- Third Take a look at: Wednesday December 17 – Sunday December 21 (11.30pm) – Adelaide Oval
- Fourth Take a look at: Thursday December 25 – Monday December 29 (11.30pm) – Melbourne Cricket Floor
- Fifth Take a look at: Sunday January 4 – Thursday January 8 (11.30pm) – Sydney Cricket Floor
