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Aussies’ rude awakening
1 LONDON. May 26:
I Stand-in skipper
I St evc-Wftrgtr feels" the 3-0 drubbing handed out bv England will serve it up well for \u>iialms preparations for lorthcoming defence in Ashes series, reports AP.
Australia arrived here expecting a one-sided contest, but were up for a rude shock against a rejuvenated England team armed with a new generation of cricketers like the Hollioake brothers.
Ben Hollioake scored 63 against the Aussies on his debut Sunday and brother Adam hit the winning runs in each of the three English victories.
Australia will have to make do with just two three-day county matches against Gloucestershire and Derbyshire before the first Test at Edgbaston. as indifferent form, injuries and lack of match practice continue, to dog the tourists.
Australia's main concern at the moment is skipper Mark Taylor's poor form and a lack of runs from Matthew Elliott, who eithers opens with Taylor or bats at the pivotal No. 3 spot, and the recalled Michael Slater.
Slater, who has been out of the Australian team for six months was recalled for the tour, but was dumped together with Taylor for the third match at Lord's.
If Taylor fails in the two first-class matches in the 10 days before the first Test, coach Geoff Marsh and Waugh, two of the other tour selectors with Taylor, will have to ask the skipper to take a rest for the first Test.
But Marsh, a long standing friend of Taylor, is unlikely to do that.
"He's the tour captain and
. If Taylor fails-to'make the first Test side, he will become only the second Australian captain to be sacked during a series, the other being Bill Lawry in 1971.
Taylor, has given himself an ultimatum, to score runs in the first month of the Ashes tour or consider standing aside.
He began the tour on a high note with scores of 45 and 76 in two low-key tour openers but
since has managed 14, seven and I 1 in tlic last three outings before he stood down.
"It's not only Mark Taylor's form that hasn't been great, I ve scored three 20s, so I've got a lot to work on," Waugh said when asked whether Taylor's decision not to play had any impact on the team.
"I can't be bothered worrying about Mark Taylor's game. As soon as you start worrying about another player you lose sight of your own game."
Australia will field its po-
tenilaL first TfU team in. |>c liyo i^i ifoU|atSes to give il«£ii ■hs milch practice as possible.
The tourists preparation for the one-day series was badly affected by the inclement English weather pattern.
Another worrying factor for the Australians is the bowling, which has hardly looked like picking up a wicket, except in the first 5-10 overs.
Ace leg-spinner Shane Warne has picked up just 1-129 in the three one-dayers while fast bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie, who'll spearhead the Test attack, have four wickets between them.
"It's crunch time now,” Waugh said after losing the second game as captain. RVe're really going to have to play some good cricket.
"We probably weren't quite sharp enough, it's probably done us a big favor really getting us ready for the Test matches."
Waugh said Australia's game should improve a lot if they are to beat England in the Test series. "We have to improve and England's going to be a tough side to beat this summer.
"We re lacking five per cent but 1 just can't put my finger on it, an indefinable quality .... maybe sharpness," Waugh said.
Australia play Gloucestershire in a three-day game in Bristol on Tuesday.