Broad will not take 'temporary calls' for its future of Testing
"There is a long time between now and the Caribbean tour in March and I have never been one of the most influential decision makers."
Stuart Broad has said he will not take "any emergency calls" about his future as an England player after a "very disappointing" trip to Australia where he was selected only in the first three Tests.
Broad was the world's leading wicket-taker in the Tests in 2020 but took 12 wickets at 39.50 in 2021. He played only seven of the 15 Tests in England last year due to a combination of rest and rotation, calf injury and selection decisions, and was left out of the first and third Ashes Test matches in tailor-suited stadiums.
David Warner, who has just dropped seven times in the 2019 Ashes series, said after the MCG test that it was "a good result he was not playing" and the decision to leave Broad without the first Test in Gabba was criticized. Alastair Cook, who said the nomination should have been "absurd".
Broad is turning 36 in June and is already doing his second job as a broadcaster and commentator for Sky Sports, and with Ollie Robinson - the same style swimmer - impressive since his debut earlier this year, his future in the Test team has been called up. in question.
"As a wobble-seam thrower, I feel I have missed out on two of the best wobble-seam platforms in Australia," Broad wrote in his Mail on Sunday column. “Only one game made this trip very disappointing, which I did not achieve.
"The most frustrating part was the Ashes defeat, a 3-0 defeat and I feel like I did nothing. The inability, as an experienced player, to contribute to the series while live is difficult.
"Has it affected my hunger to play Test cricket? No. If I look at things in the right way, I can say I will never get a better chance of taking wickets than in Brisbane and Melbourne. But I have to be ready for my next chance, whether in Sydney, Hobart or beyond.
"There is a long time between now and the Caribbean tour in March and I have never been a person who makes bad decisions. So I will not call my future any kind of calls. And a solid system."
Broad also admitted that "strength and attitude are low in the camp" in the run-up to the last two Tests after Australia kept the urn within 12 days of playing, and said England were nearing "the end of our mental encounter with Covid ".
"There are no excuses for England playing well in the Ashes tour, he wrote," but there are reasons why things are going well.
"Unfortunately our shows have shown our readiness. Imagine Tiger Woods running errands for the Masters after four months without playing, spending time playing biosecure bubbles and seeing all his career come to an end. , you would not.
"The fact is that we arrived uncooked when Marcus Harris, Marnus Labuschagne, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland and Jhye Richardson played national cricket. Yes, like us, Australia had players in the T20 World Cup until mid-November. But was it a playground?
"This trip has affected us all. Without sounding like 'I'm making excuses, we may be on the verge of collapse with Covid. We are the only team to have played solid international cricket throughout the epidemic. they got here.
"We spent the second day of the Boxing Day Test checking the Covid match and taking the boys out of their hotel rooms, away from their families, so they were no longer considered close to them.
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