It was bad and then terrible. England may only be 44 behind, but it still feels more. Day two was chaos at the Gabba, with poor catching and erratic batting.“That’s third-grade standard,” former Aussie great Mark Waugh said on Fox Sports of England’s bowling display. “Look at this pitch map. That’s all over the place.”Stuart Broad, Channel Seven said: “I’ve just seen Glenn McGrath Brett Lee and Jason Gillespie.” I told them that England had bowled more bad deliveries today than they did during your entire career.”Jack Rathborn5 Dec 2025 22.15Joe root backs England after costly ‘mistakes’Joe Root has insisted England’s Ashes campaign remains firmly on track, despite a series of dropped catches gifting Australia five extra lives and a crucial first-innings lead at the Gabba.”We’re not perfect, we’re all human and we’re going to make mistakes. But it’s how we respond,” Root stated.”It’s about making sure we turn up with the right frame of mind, right attitude and knowing our best game of cricket is good enough to do very special things here. Wheels could have fallen off, and they probably would have on another tour, when I was captain.“But we know our best cricket and when we execute well we’re a very difficult side to play against. I don’t think we’re massively out of it at all.”Joe Root says England are not perfect after error-strewn day (PA Wire)Jack Rathborn5 December 2025 22:00Michael Vaughan bemoans ‘jaded’ England after day two at The Gabba”I would have done things completely differently,” Vaughan told BBC Sport. “What I saw today was a team completely jaded.”These fielding drills – they’re fantastic, but you know the ball is coming to you. In a game, you have no clue when it is coming to you and it is completely different.”The art of taking chances is concentration. If you’re not out there on a regular basis, and that chance comes, you have to be concentrating to take that opportunity. The only way you get good at that is by training the brain to do it.”Jack Rathborn5 December 2025 13:54Can England win this Test? Joe Root defiant after day two”We have to show positivity tomorrow and we know our best cricket can turn a fixture really quickly,” said Joe Root.“If we turn up with our best then this fixture can very quickly turn in our favour.“Then our talent with the bat can go out…
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