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In an article about a man widely hailed as a cricketing genius, comes a sentence (yes, a single sentence) that is nothing short of genius in its own way: Can an England team that is likely to return to its best form in conditions that could negate its weaknesses against swing overcome an Australia team still patently lacking in reliable Test batsmen and dependent on fast bowlers who are either injury-prone or spraying-it-around-and-getting-smashed-prone, but who will nevertheless fancy their chances against an England team that looks to be past its peak and may pay for its intermittent tactical caution against a resurgently aggressive Australia team who emerged from last summers series, despite the scoreline, with a much stronger-looking all-round line-up, albeit one that may nevertheless still prove insufficiently potent to challenge an England team with few weaknesses, good memories of their last trip to Baggy Greenland and a battle-hardened core of seasoned winners, who will back themselves to overpower an Australia team scarred by a year of defeats, but which will see a major opportunity to rectify that against an England team in which a couple of selectorial fissures have opened up and who appear worryingly dependent on a bowling attack that may feel the strain of years of unremitting workload, and who could be undone by an Australia team with a renewed fire in its belly that will probably not be enough to vanquish an England team with an ongoing fire in its belly that should prove too much for an Australia team that might just sneak a drawn series against an England team that may not do enough to win but is unlikely to lose? espncricinfo/blogs/content/story/689973.html
Posted on: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:30:49 +0000

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