The guilty trio were Ollie Pope, Joe Root and Harry Brook – all three pushing with loose drives. <\/p>\n
Ben Duckett nicked Scott Boland to slip to begin the collapse and five other wickets followed later but those three wickets in six balls were Australia’s crucial blow.<\/p>\n
Pope got a snick off Boland, Brook a thick edge third ball off the Victorian while a Root inside edge to his eighth ball crashed back onto his stumps to give Mitchell Starc a ninth scalp.<\/p>\n
Analysts CricViz have an ‘Expected Leave’ model for every delivery tracked in Test cricket and historical data suggests Pope’s delivery would have been left 72% of times on average, Brook’s 68 and Root’s also 72.<\/p>\n
That, though, is not England’s way. <\/p>\n
“I am so disappointed,” said former England captain Michael Vaughan.<\/p>\n
“From that position of dominance, to lose nine wickets and three big drives – the same mistakes two years later…<\/p>\n
“What you look for is: are you improving, are you getting better? <\/p>\n
“This England team, at the worst possible time when they have had the best team for the conditions in Perth, have made exactly the same mistakes as 2023. <\/p>\n
“That is inexcusable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The guilty trio were Ollie Pope, Joe Root and Harry Brook – all three pushing with loose drives.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-586665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115593110094087204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}