{"id":631002,"date":"2025-12-14T01:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631002\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T01:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:35:13","slug":"the-narrowing-of-the-run-rate-gap-is-the-latest-in-englands-worrying-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631002\/","title":{"rendered":"The narrowing of the run-rate gap is the latest in England\u2019s worrying trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">Certainly, the bowling attack has mutated from one which contained mostly experienced bowlers capable of exerting control \u2013 Anderson (economy rate 2.65 per over from the start of the Stokes-McCullum period), Broad (3.43), Woakes (3.04), Robinson (2.86), Leach (3.37) \u2013 to one without the hundreds of wickets\u2019 worth of Test and first-class experience, who have taken wickets at good strike rates, but conceded runs much faster (Atkinson 3.76, Carse 3.72, Tongue 4.07, Bashir 3.78). Archer, in his four recent Tests, has conceded 3.16 per over, but the other front-line seamers have been unable to provide prolonged control. England are, I think, a less flexible and multidimensional bowling side than they were in the earlier Bazball period, \ufeffunderstandable\ufeff given that they have lost the skills and wisdom of England\u2019s two leading Test wicket-takers, plus, more recently, Woakes and Wood\ufeff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Certainly, the bowling attack has mutated from one which contained mostly experienced bowlers capable of exerting control \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[23382,748,1406,393,4884,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-631002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-ashes","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115715357122402369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631002","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=631002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}