{"id":214009,"date":"2025-10-15T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214009\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:02:09","slug":"stuart-broad-says-australia-has-their-worst-ashes-side-since-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214009\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Broad says Australia has their worst Ashes side since 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stuart Broad has lit the touch paper for the Ashes series by claiming that Australia’s team for this summer will be their worst since England’s 3-1 thrashing of the team led by Ricky Ponting 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

The provocative claim, made by Broad on his podcast with fellow England cricketer Jos Buttler, kicked off on the basis that Australia will be missing captain Pat Cummins from the first Test<\/a> in Perth and perhaps the bulk of the series.<\/p>\n

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Former England fast bowler Stuart Broad.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t be outlandish in thinking \u2013 it\u2019s actually not an opinion, it\u2019s a fact \u2013 it\u2019s probably the worst Australian team since 2010 when England last won, and it\u2019s the best English team since 2010,\u201d Broad said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo those things match up to the fact it\u2019s going to be a brilliant Ashes series.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In addition to the doubts around Cummins, Broad also pointed to the uncertainties around the composition of the Australian top six, with the likes of Marnus Labuschagne<\/a> and Sam Konstas vying for a spot<\/a> and conjecture about where Cameron Green and Steve Smith are going to bat.<\/p>\n

But it is a far more settled side than the 2010-11 group, which got home from a 2-0 series defeat in India and were then unbalanced by the naming of an unprecedented and never again repeated 17-man squad for the first Test at the Gabba after Cricket Australia gave the selectors and early deadline to announce their team.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralia have been so consistent for a long period of time that you just knew who was going to open the batting, who was going to bat where, what bowlers there were \u2013 and they don\u2019t have that,\u201d Broad said.<\/p>\n

“It’s very much a similar situation to 2010-2011 when England went and won there. The fact of the matter is Australia generally have to be bad to lose in Australia and England have to be very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart Broad has lit the touch paper for the Ashes series by claiming that Australia’s team for this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-214009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}