“There is a big difference between bowling in nets and bowling in matches,” he says on Seven.
“We know Perth was only a two day game, the workloads of these bowlers weren’t particularly high, and all they have been able to do leading into this game is bowl in nets or bowl to a mitt.
“Such a different scenario when each ball matters and there’s a result in each ball. They just look like they’re short of match awareness, match fitness the sharpness in the brain to be able to bowl six balls in the same spot.
“I’m telling you, there’s movement in this surface. There are cracks, there’s a bit of indifferent bounce. There are things happening bringing up the 50 partnership, that leg bye.
“The softer this ball goes, 20 overs to 80, when it’s 60 overs, we lean on that being batter-friendly. The first 20 overs are the time you need to make your breakthroughs and 1/127 is an absolute disaster.”