The real problem with the bowling attack of England, while they make break unwanted records in India series, why they cannot trust pace battery to recover the ashes and what they have to do afterwards

It is considered rude to talk about axis While a blockbuster Five test series is raging against India – But the plight situation of the Bowlers of England in both Headingley and Edgbaston has left little option.

In the first competition, India achieved 471 and 364 and lost somehow. In the second, where they avoided the tail deposits that cost them dear in Leeds, it was 578 and 427 for six, making them only the fourth team in history until the top 1,000 runs in a single test. Their captain, Shubman Gill, scored 585 of his own bat, with three more games to break Don Bradman’s Recordaggregaat from 974 for a TOOD.

Once it might be on the way to Lord’s on Thursday, but the bowlers of England are stretched on the rack in a way that India’s do not have, and so far 443 overs deliver to the 340 of the tourists.

And while India Jasprit Bumrah, the world’s best bowler, will welcome to strengthen a Bouyant attack, consider wiping England, with Jofra ArcherGus Atkinson, Jamie Overton and Sam Cook all in the mix, and head coach Brendon McCullum require more useful circumstances than an edgbastone surface that, not for the first time, let the England camp smoke.

As the ash comes closer, the composition of their best bowling-line-up remains worryingly unclear. It is all good and good picking up from Archer, Mark Wood, Brydon Carse and/or Atkinson.

But Archer has not played a test since February 2021 and has since threw a total of 18 Red-Ball Overs, Wood will be lucky to end his last injury dismissal for the fifth test, Carse has a constant problem with his toe and Atkinson feels his way back from hamstring problems.

The supposed best attack in England has never played together, and it is a leap of belief to imagine that they will all take on the field on November 21. That is why what happens in the coming weeks at Lord’s, Old Trafford and the oval will be crucial – not just for their chances of beating India, but to arrive in Australia with a strategy that goes beyond selecting someone who is enough to make someone.

The application of no fewer than three changes to the seam attack sounds drastic and is contrary to McCullum’s preference for stability, but the current plan does not work.

The collective bowling average of England so far in the Anderson tendulkar trophy is 51, their highest in any home series of more than one match, with the exception of the disastrous ashes from 1989, when an eye-watery 16 different frontlinic bowlers amounted to an average of almost 58, and Australia won.

No English bowler is on average less in this series than the 33 of Josh Tongue, who has paid Misgaft as an enforcer and paid the price with an economy of 4.56. Carse, who was so impressive during his first winter as a test cricket player in Pakistan and New Zealand, is an average of 52, and Chris Woakes is a grim 96. Neither has enjoyed a lot of fortune, it is true, but those figures are hard to sugar.

A line of thought it says that Woakes plays at Lord’s, because his 32 wickets have cost less than 13 there. But that includes six to 17 against Ireland in 2019, and 11 in the match against Pakistan so long ago as 2016.

He is now 36, and in Edgbaston-being home country-was-wash he is unable to offer the consistent new ball threat that Akash Deep and Mohammed Siraj of India formed, with their fuller lengths and ski-skdier trajectories. His speeds also regularly fell below 80 km / h, so it’s hard to see how he can be brought to Australia, where his 16 Wickets 51 cost. He is approaching the end of the road for all his zeal and popularity.

And that explains a larger Onus to get out as quickly as possible whether Archer’s body can withstand the hard-day cricket deprivation after a few years consisting of injury problems and white ball cricket.

“He will certainly be available for selection,” said McCullum. ‘Our sailors have gone two tests on the spider and we have a short change for those of Lord. If you follow a little leather, you also go pretty deep into your spells. Jofra sees fit, strong and ready to go. ‘

Atkinson also needs a canter, if only to determine whether he can match the speeds that yielded his 12-wicket debut against the West Indies on Lord’s a year. Towards the end of last year, during the third test against New Zealand in Hamilton, his fastest delivery was 84 MPH, which was almost 2 MPH slower than its average delivery during that first match. McCullum emphasized that England still had to have a ‘good look at Gus’ before he called him in their last XI.

If Atkinson plays, the last seam bowling place could be disputed by Woakes and Sam Cook, although his debut against Zimbabwe seemed to confirm the suspicion of the coach that he is missing the speed to make an impact at test level. If Atkinson misses, the Pacier Overston – who can hit 90 MPH – can add to the only cap he won against New – Zealand three years ago.

Whatever combination of England is settled, they need more help from the circumstances than they have received in the first two tests, especially in Edgbastone, where Stokes first talked about the concept that he would be rewarded with pace and bouncing.

The Management of England has not forgotten the Ashes-Pitch from 2023 at the same location, which died a slow death and the lower order of Australia helped a two-wicket victory.

A dressing room source described the mood this time as ‘frustrated’ after England was postponed in circumstances, both Stokes and McCullum were more Bombay than Birmingham.

The reason that the 336-run victory of India was only their 10th in England in 69 attempts that goes back to 1932 is because their batsmen struggles with lateral movement, in the same way as England, it cannot deal with running pitches on the subcontinent.

Yet India has so far scored seven individual centuries, and in the second test the old ball was just as fast as a rag doll.

McCullum even went to the unusual length of answering a question about what kind of surface he would like to see at Lord’s. “Something with a little more pace, bouncing and a little lateral movement,” he said. It did not come so much a preference as a plea.

Yet the days of test match green tops in England may have disappeared, with excellent drainage to ensure that the fields start dry, and the hot early summer they dry even further.

In any case, because guest locations – want to maximize income – want the game to last the best part of four days, grassy surfaces are rejected. The characteristics that England once gave a home advantage are changing rapidly.

And because Groundstaff is more responsible for their County Chief Executive than for the test team, the requests of England can easily fall on deaf ears.

The Lord’s field for the final of the recent World Test Championship offered the Zeemers early help, with 14 wickets that fell on each of the first two days before he destroyed when South Africa was pursued 282. England would probably settle for a repetition – because the alternative does not think about thinking.