Glenn McGrath

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383 appearances 13 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 24 Aug

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Test Match Special · The Ashes: Defiant Stokes, but England face mammoth task · 18 Dec 2025 podcast

Some of the shots that Australia played, you look at that one from Marnus Labuschagne, first ball after lunch, that changed the whole tempo of their innings as well.

So...

yeah you know and then the way australia bowled today that they just don't give you anything you know mitchell stark's been he didn't pick up any wickets here today but from first ball ready to go just such great areas um you know pat cummins we weren't sure how he was going to go but just come back in the in the zone and then scotty boland you know if there's anything in the pitch he just finds it and um

So you're always facing good deliveries and you've got to work out ways of how to score and get off strike and ticking the scoreboard over.

And you can be positive by getting three, four, five singles each over.

So you've got to know your scoring areas and know where, okay, they're trying to get me out here.

This is a danger point.

But occasionally I can come down, like Brooke did, and hit one over the top.

That's his game.

When you've got someone like Kerry coming up to the stumps, then you've got to be a little bit smarter.

So, yeah, I think England, they're in that zone where they're not 100% sure what to do.

The plan they had when they came here to be ultra-aggressive

hasn't worked on the pitches they've played on and then they've been crucified in the media because of it.

This pitch here doesn't have the same demons.

So I think their approach probably would have worked better on this pitch than Perth and Brisbane.

But you've got to give credit to Australian bowlers.

They know the conditions.

They know where to bowl.

So unfortunately for England, it's been another bad day for them.

And then the other thing on top of that, the way Nathan Lyon bowled.

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