Break doesn’t bother Lehmann
CANTURBURY, England: Australia coach Darren Lehmann made it clear he could not care less what England get up to during their four-day trip to Spain after his side launched their Ashes tour with a convincing win.Sunday saw Ashes-holders Australia defeat Kent by 255 runs on the final day of four
By our correspondents
June 30, 2015
CANTURBURY, England: Australia coach Darren Lehmann made it clear he could not care less what England get up to during their four-day trip to Spain after his side launched their Ashes tour with a convincing win.
Sunday saw Ashes-holders Australia defeat Kent by 255 runs on the final day of four in Canterbury.
Australia now have one more four-day game, against Essex in Chelmsford starting on Wednesday, before they begin the defence of the Ashes with the first Test against England in Cardiff from July 8.
England have travelled to Spain in a bid for their likely Ashes squad to get to know new Australian coach Trevor Bayliss.
Asked what England might gain from such an exercise, Lehmann told reporters at the St Lawrence Ground: “I don’t know, don’t want to know. Don’t care.
“I only worry about us to be perfectly honest. We’ve got to worry about how we are going to produce really good cricket in England because we haven’t won here for 14 years. That’s our focus,” added the former Australia batsman.
Australia, fresh from their 2-0 Test series win in the Caribbean, had just about as good an all-round workout as could be expected against Kent.
Fast bowlers Mitchell Johnson and Ryan Harris got through several sharp overs, while several Australia batsmen scored hundreds.
Among those to reach three figures was Steven Smith, whose status as the world’s number-one ranked Test batsman was not enough to stop England new-ball bowler Stuart Broad from suggesting he might struggle in English conditions.
Smith, who came into this match on the back of his 199 against the West Indies in Jamaica, made 111 before retiring in his lone innings against Kent.
Sunday saw Ashes-holders Australia defeat Kent by 255 runs on the final day of four in Canterbury.
Australia now have one more four-day game, against Essex in Chelmsford starting on Wednesday, before they begin the defence of the Ashes with the first Test against England in Cardiff from July 8.
England have travelled to Spain in a bid for their likely Ashes squad to get to know new Australian coach Trevor Bayliss.
Asked what England might gain from such an exercise, Lehmann told reporters at the St Lawrence Ground: “I don’t know, don’t want to know. Don’t care.
“I only worry about us to be perfectly honest. We’ve got to worry about how we are going to produce really good cricket in England because we haven’t won here for 14 years. That’s our focus,” added the former Australia batsman.
Australia, fresh from their 2-0 Test series win in the Caribbean, had just about as good an all-round workout as could be expected against Kent.
Fast bowlers Mitchell Johnson and Ryan Harris got through several sharp overs, while several Australia batsmen scored hundreds.
Among those to reach three figures was Steven Smith, whose status as the world’s number-one ranked Test batsman was not enough to stop England new-ball bowler Stuart Broad from suggesting he might struggle in English conditions.
Smith, who came into this match on the back of his 199 against the West Indies in Jamaica, made 111 before retiring in his lone innings against Kent.
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