Stuart Broad

Because what Australians want to see are their sports people.

presence, warrior mode, you know, in, effort, heart on the sleeve, give everything.

And it's exactly what Ben Stokes does every single time.

Even the fact he's been out there fielding and leading his troops with a torn abductor today.

You know, Australians will say, gosh, I wish he was in my side.

I think tactically he's not been at his best.

Probably the worst series I've seen him have as a captain.

But I always have a believer because I'm a bowler.

The captain's only as good as the bowlers when you're out there in the middle because bowlers can make the captain look pretty silly because you'll set a field and they don't bowl to it.

And that's been the frustration for me throughout this series is the bowlers have not been able to just consistently hit any sort of area on conditions that we probably weren't expecting, to be honest, MCG.

Gabba nipped around Perth two day as well.

Conditions that were so in the favour of the bowlers that actually just hitting the top of off doing the basics really well was the discipline that you needed.

And the bowlers haven't been able to do that, which makes the captain look a bit daft because you set a field and it doesn't work.

You know, the cast opening bowling thing, that was never in the plan.

That's because Geoff Rarcher got injured.

Gus Atkinson got injured.

Mark Wood could even take the new ball.

He got injured.

But he didn't adapt that particularly well at all.

And maybe that's because Josh Tongue doesn't like the feeling of a new ball.