England Braced For Summer Game Of Keep-the-mace

England braced for summer game of keep-the-mace

Andrew Strauss will be reacquainted with the ICC mace on Wednesday, that which bears a passing resemblance to the one lying between the leaders of the two main parties in the House of Commons. burner 2.0 fersHe first collected it in the immediate aftermath of England's 4-0 demolition of India last summer, that lifted his side to the exalted position of No1"'ranked team in the world. Ping G20 HybrideThese were happy times, relived on Monday at the England and Wales Cricket Board player of the year dinner in the Long Room at Lord's.

If it was a long path to the top, though "" a dozen years since they were less officially ranked the worst team in the world "" it was always likely to prove just as difficult to hang on to their position and maintain the standard. Ping HybrideThis is a considerably more competitive environment than those which existed at the top of the tree during three previous decades of dominance, taylormade burner fersfirst for West Indies and then Australia.

That Strauss is still in a position to collect the mace, and the cheque that goes with it, is down to the win in Colombo which ensured that England held off South Africa by no more than a smidgen, a differential that will not be altered unless, unaccountably, they contrive to lose a series to West Indies which looks as if it will be played in the sort of conditions that their wolf-pack of seamers might have put in their contract riders. Burner 2.0If it was a happy end to the winter, however, there had been little, beyond the consistent brilliance of the bowlers, G20 Hybrideto cheer for the rest of it: a towelling from India in the five-match one-day series before Christmas, success coming only in a single Twenty20 game at the end of it; and then four successive defeats in Tests, three of them in the UAE by Pakistan and one in Galle. So it really was back down to earth with a bump.

So much as it was pleasant to sit back, sup a glass and bask in the glow of it, that was then and this is now. taylormade burner 2.0 fersNine losses in the last 11 international matches in all formats does not offer a ringing endorsement of a team that has ambition to dominate not just in Tests but in all forms of the game. G20 Fers

This summer will test them to the full, with the forthcoming three Tests against West Indies and subsequent ODI series, followed by five ODIs against Australia, and then what promises to be the meat of the summer, Ping G20 Fers a three-Test series against South Africa and more ODIs. By the end, as Jimmy Anderson said while mercilessly winding up the evening's excellent compere, Nasser Hussain, the No1 side will be the one which wins the series.

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