{"id":288860,"date":"2025-11-29T01:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288860\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T01:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:02:22","slug":"the-ashes-2025-jason-gillespie-questions-robustness-of-england-seamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288860\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025: Jason Gillespie questions ‘robustness’ of England seamers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Australia bowler Jason Gillespie says he would be more worried about the “robustness” of England’s pace attack than their batting frailties.<\/p>\n

England’s all-pace attack of Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse, Mark Wood and all-rounder Ben Stokes were lauded after the first innings in Perth, with former captain Michael Vaughan saying<\/a> they were “as good as he’s seen”. <\/p>\n

However, they struggled in the face of an onslaught from Travis Head in the second innings and paces were down, with Archer’s average speed dropping from 90.3mph to 87.6mph. <\/p>\n

Head went on to hit a swashbuckling century and set up an eight-wicket win for Australia. <\/p>\n

“England should take a lot of heart from their first innings bowling and we saw glimpses with the bat from Harry Brook and Jamie Smith of batting nice and positively and scoring a few runs,” Gillespie said on BBC World Service’s Stumped podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“Everyone talks about England’s batting and it being aggressive – that will be hit and miss, it is inconsistent. When it is good, it is really good, when it is bad, it’s really bad. <\/p>\n

“I would be more concerned about the robustness of the bowling attack – it was chalk and cheese from day one to day two and in particular Jofra Archer and Mark Wood. <\/p>\n

“I know they had different bowling plans but it was interesting to see the pace was well down from the previous day and they hadn’t bowled a lot of overs. <\/p>\n

“That would be my concern. Do they have enough work in the bank to be fit and strong enough to bowl consistently high pace across the course of a whole match and then back it up in the subsequent matches? That is the big question mark for me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Australia bowler Jason Gillespie says he would be more worried about the “robustness” of England’s pace attack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-288860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}