England may have experienced the toughest conditions they will face in the Ashes, says former Australia captain Tim Paine.<\/p>\n
Ben Stokes’ side lost the first Test in Perth by eight wickets, with a number of batters coming undone by the pace of the pitch and the bounce it offered. <\/p>\n
Paine, who captained Australia in the 2019 Ashes, said Perth “was the hardest place to start”. <\/p>\n
“I wouldn’t read too much into Perth, now everyone’s settled into the series a bit more,” Paine told BBC Radio 5 Live. <\/p>\n
“Everyone judged the English boys really harshly in Perth, [but] that is a foreign place for Australians to play, most of us, unless we grow up in Western Australia. <\/p>\n
“To be fending at balls and nicking off and looking silly in Perth is not just an English thing. We’ve done that ourselves. <\/p>\n
“The positive thing for them now is they’ve seen it at its bounciest and the rest of this year should get a little bit easier for them.<\/p>\n
“England showed at times when they get it right, they’re going to have some good days and their good days are normally enough to win a Test match so Australia are going to have to be right on their game.<\/p>\n
“I’m still fascinated to see it unfolds because the way England play, they have a couple of good days, then they’re going to be in front of a game, aren’t they? <\/p>\n
“But I think over 25 days of Ashes cricket, Australia’s ability to probably play the percentages and do things better for a little bit longer and more consistently will probably be the difference.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England may have experienced the toughest conditions they will face in the Ashes, says former Australia captain Tim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-291997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291997","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=291997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}