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Anderson sees Australia toothless without ‘fast-troika’
By Aditya Pratap - Dec 22, 2017 3:50 pm
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England spearhead James Anderson feels Australia will become toothless if you look beyond the furious troika of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazelwood and Pat Cummins, who snatched the Ashes from visitors just after first three matches of the series.

These three combined dismissed 45 English batsmen, which proved vital in Australia’s triumph. Al of them regularly clicked 90 miles per hour and Anderson believes that is the key aspect, which England is missing in this series.

He quoted to BBC radio podcast “They’ve had three bowlers who all can bowl 90mph. They’ve stayed fit for all three games. But you look beyond that, they’ve got problems.”

Talking about Australia’s fast bowling arsenal, he pointed out at injured pacers. “There’s (James) Pattinson injured, (Nathan) Coulter-Nile injured – they’ve all been injured for a while. They’ve not got much other than these three that are bowling at the minute,” he added.

The Three Lions is short of bowlers with a furious pace. “I think we’ve got to be careful. Obviously we want to produce guys who can bowl 90mph but I don’t think we should take away from what we’ve got,” veteran pacer mentioned.

“We’ve got some very skillful bowlers, we’ve just come up against a team that are better than us this series.”

England is 3-0 down in the series and gave away the urn with showing some fight. Now both teams will meet in the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne, which will commence a day after Christmas.