Ash 2021-22 | Broad and Anderson fit and ready for the second test, Silverwood confirms
Stuart Broad and James Anderson are ready to play in England's XI for Ashes Second Test in Adelaide, with head coach Chris Silverwood calling the pair "fit and ready". England dropped nine wickets at the series opener in Brisbane and their team selection sparked several debates.
James Anderson and Stuart Broad, who are the leading wicket takers in Test Cricket with 632 and 524 scalps respectively, were surprisingly excluded from England's XI for the first Ashes Test in Brisbane, which the visitors lost by nine wickets. Interestingly, Anderson was banned from the initial 12-person roster that was named before the series began.
England head coach Chris Silverwood has announced the pair are ready for the day / night test to be played at the Adelaide Oval on Thursday, December 16.
"Jimmy will be fit and ready for the second test, as will Stuart," said Silverwood on Sunday (December 12th). "They are available. From an experience point of view, of course, we have a lot of experience with the bowlers, so I'm happy with that. The guys have already trained behind the scenes with the pink ball. And what we've got is a very skilled bowler. We have talent and we also have two of the best up our sleeves. "
England had Chris Woakes, Mark Wood and Ollie Robinson as their three frontline quicks in Brisbane to walk with Jack Leach's left arm. Leach picked 1/102 of his 13 overs, and his selection sparked debate and criticism from experts and fans alike.
Broad, who was named on the original 12-man team, expressed disappointment after his failure. Silverwood looked at the decision again.
"Stuart was great, to be honest," said Silverwood. "Of course he was disappointed not to play but he understood this is a long streak. Everyone will raise their hands to do the hard work out there and they are ready to do that now. We had good ones Conversations with Stuart before we made any decisions. " made and he was 100 percent on board.
"I haven't told anyone they are playing. We will have some sore bodies from this test and we will make decisions from there."
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Silverwood emphasized the need to improve in the field and build large partnerships with his side trailing 0-1 in the series. Visitors were also given five World Test Championship points and 100% of their game fee for maintaining a slow exceedance at The Gabba.
"We had a good chat in the locker room afterwards," he said. "There are obvious areas where we need to improve, like holding our catches and building great partnerships. Obviously they hurt, but we think they can win this series. We've been in this position before. We won 1-0. " We have the players here who can take on the Australians. We have confidence that we can compete with Australia and that is exactly what we want to do.
"What hurts the most is the test championship points because we're fighting for the final," said Silverwood. "It was our first test in a while and we hadn't had that warm-up game so the guys weren't used to running around all the time and it was hot out there. We'll talk about that. There isn't any hiding from it."