‘No excuse’ to lose Ashes series at home: Australian all-rounder Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326
Shane Watson, the Australian all-rounder, has opined that his side would have “no excuse” to lose the upcoming Ashes series at home this summer after the men Down Under have become more habituated than usual to learning from
their mistakes.
The opener admitted that the visitors should have performed better against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 after winning the toss in the both the matches and posting a first innings total of 400 plus runs. There is no better platform than that for
prevailing in a five-dayer in the subcontinent conditions, yet the tourists lost their both matches hopelessly.
Another Australian opener, Simon Katich, had claimed before the two-match Test series that the team had still not resolved the frailties in its batting line-up that had troubled them during the 2009 Ashes series and the two
below-par second innings against the Men in Blue made it clear that the side does not seem closer to doing so.
"No doubt every Test we play everyone is improving - I know that every time I go out to play, I am learning different things and different lessons," Watson said.
Watson said that the side is trying its level best to avoid a recurrence of past mistakes. He further added that over the past one year, the Australian team has got a bit more experience and regrettably the experience had
come through the side’s mistakes. The all-rounder was hopeful that the team will bring the experience all together in the upcoming Ashes series against England.
Watson said that the next month Ashes would be played under the home conditions so the Australians would be left with no excuses to lose the crucial series.
"It is in our home conditions so we have got no excuses once we get home, and we are going to have to make the most of lessons we have learned the hard way over the last year."
Watson's regrets about the embarrassing 2-0 whitewash revolved largely around the poor performance of the tourists in the second innings batting. The opener feels that they have not helped themselves get enough runs in the
second innings to put themselves in a winning position.
Besides Mitchell Johnson and the Australian skipper Ricky Ponting, Watson has also been intentionally dropped from the limited-overs leg of the tour to India so as to make sure he is in peak form for Ashes series, one of
the most thrilling encounters after (or even alongside) an India-Pakistan clash.
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