England Refuses to Dwell upon Premature Congratulations
Matt Prior, the English wicket keeper, amid his vast experience, is of the view that his team should avoid dwelling upon premature congratulations for its (so far) success at Ashes.
Before Prior, Andrew Strauss, the captain of team England and coach Andy Flower both insisted upon the fact that in five Test-matches series, their team has only won one match, while the other had been drawn, and it was too early
to get relaxed and lose focus for the rest of the matches.
The most optimistic ones among the spectators have already started pointing out that a victory in the next match, to be played next week at Perth, will mean that the England has successfully retained the series before Christmas.
But Prior, the test match wicket keeper for the team, regards it as dangerous talk.
“You have got to be careful you don’t fall into the trap of too much back-patting too early” said Matt who is now preparing to play in capacity of a specialist batsman in a three-day match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Victoria-c859, going to start from
tomorrow, while Steve Davies will be replacing him behind the stumps.
Prior looked happy over the ‘so-far’ performance of the team and celebrated the fact that they were 1-0 up, hoping to successfully make it as 2-0 up.
This is not the first time when England has reached on the brink of an emphatic victory in the Ashes; about 16 months ago they had been into somewhat similar situation where similar positive vibes were ringing into their ears.
However, while entering into the third match, the batting order just could not work and within three days they had been mourning over an embarrassing defeat.
Vividly remembering what happened to them in last series at Leeds, Prior said: “you can fall into a trap if you start looking too far ahead. Certainly in 2009 during that Ashes, the one game we probably looked too far ahead was
that Headingley match. We suddenly found ourselves 102 all out, and it was game over. We have learnt our lessons from that.”
Matt said that in cricket, it was a common phenomenon that teams played impressive cricket in one match, and in the next, one only saw them going pretty poor. And when it was about winning the big series, performing well with consistency
was the key, where no one took one’s foot off the gas.
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