{"id":110519,"date":"2019-09-16T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/16\/five-steps-england-must-take-to-regain-the-ashes-in-2020-21-rob-smyth\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T15:45:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T13:45:46","slug":"five-steps-england-must-take-to-regain-the-ashes-in-2020-21-rob-smyth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=110519","title":{"rendered":"Five steps England must take to regain the Ashes in 2020-21 | Rob Smyth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To regain the urn in Australia in two years\u2019 time England have plenty of work to do and no time to wasteIn the second half of the Ashes series, England\u2019s batsmen hinted at a move away from \u201cit\u2019s the way we play\u201d. They need to run with that mood \u2013 or rather crawl with it, and forget about doing everything in a hurry. The only way to win in Australia is to go huge in the first innings, and England need to develop players, especially in the top three, who get high on dot balls. A change to the domestic schedule, so that four-day cricket is played in the middle of the summer on flatter pitches, perhaps with a Kookaburra ball, is essential. When England won in 2010-11, they batted for 150 overs, or five sessions, in four of the seven innings. Under Joe Root\u2019s captaincy they have failed to do so in 62 attempts. Yes, batting has changed \u2013 but not that much. In Australia, frisky cameos with the bat win only contempt. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/sep\/16\/five-steps-england-regain-ashes-2021-22-cricket\" target=\"_blank\">Five steps England must take to regain the Ashes in 2020-21 | Rob Smyth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To regain the urn in Australia in two years\u2019 time England have plenty of work to do and no time to wasteIn the second half of the Ashes series, England\u2019s batsmen hinted at a move away from \u201cit\u2019s the way we play\u201d. They need to run with that mood \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}