Keeping up with Jones
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
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It has been a traumatic opening week or so: humiliated in Canberra; savaged in the local media, and even before a first-class ball has been bowled there is an England career lying in tatters, writes Mike Atherton in The Sunday Telegraph. However, he means Chris Read and not Marcus Trescothick.
Also in The Sunday Telegraph, Andrew Strauss says that overcoming the jitters could give England a crucial advantage.
The onset of this Ashes series can't come quickly enough. The past two weeks have been the phoney war. Spectators, journalists and players have been searching for every imaginable clue as to how the series is going to play out. Of course, most of it means very little. We have got better with each game we have played, with batsmen and bowlers both beginning to adapt to the differing conditions, but the key lies with recreating that form in the cauldron of that opening Test match, and that is why we cannot wait to get going.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo