{"id":644934,"date":"2025-12-20T21:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644934\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:15:21","slug":"statistical-divide-shows-how-england-have-wilted-under-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644934\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistical divide shows how England have wilted under pr&#8230;"},"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\">The batting \u2013 statistically, and according to the world rankings, a mixture of the great, the good and the decent \u2013 has, strikingly, failed. England have had plenty of starts \u2013 18 innings of 30-plus (two more than Australia, with power to add, albeit probably pointlessly\ufeff). Unless one of England\u2019s lower order reaches three figures, Joe Root\u2019s 138 not out in Brisbane will have been England\u2019s only century in the first three Tests. Harry Brook has now played eight Ashes Tests. He has scored at least 45 runs in each game, but never had a match aggregate of 100. He has reached 30 in 10 of his 15 innings against Australia, but has only two scores over 65 (both of which did make significant contributions to England victories in 2023), and no hundreds. Against all other opposition, Brook has converted 10 out of 23 scores of 30-plus into centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The batting \u2013 statistically, and according to the world rankings, a mixture of the great, the good and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644935,"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-644934","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\/115753970894011195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644934","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=644934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}