Game was lost yesterday, no way should they have got the lead they did then to lose 3 wickets last night was the final nail.
The jobs of Key and McCullum have to be on shaky ground now, even the captaincy of Stokes. We are well down the test championship table like we were under them three in the last one. We lost an home test to a poor Sri Lanka side and now a series to a side that had a captain on the brink and could afford to drop some of their most well known players like Babar and Afridi. New Zealand away doesn't get easier as they are showing in India how good they are. Next year people are paying 100 quid a ticket against India and then it's away in Australia. The pressure is on the management.
No excuses for that pathetic effort. Can't even blame it on the toss this time. The highs of the first test seem a long long time ago given what we've witnessed since.
Some of the bile you push out at times is breathtaking. Let's go back to the nudgers and pushers of the Boycott / Tavare era. Did you forget the first test?
Wow Chris Tavare ehh, I haven't heard that name since he was an England batsman, back in about 1982!!. Btw, put an S on the end of his surname, and it means something in Russian!.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...I86dWb-dBXz1SqGIUQ_aem_bLn9WHTGBxadej_eOPms8Q I haven't forgotten the whole Bazball era. We were useless in the last test championship and there has been no improvement in this one.
It's the norm now. Flat track bullies. As soon as a pitch does anything, the flawed techniques are exposed. I don't think this experiment in playing t20 cricket at test level will last a great deal longer. Losing series heavily down under usually sees regime change. Though to be fair, slogging can come off on their bouncier pitches.
