Alex Bowden: The scientific reasons for England's poor show — espncricinfo.com

It was revealed this week that Matt Prior has been training with an anti-gravity running machine to try to aid his recovery from an achilles injury. This is just one aspect of England's new approach that has been developed after a post-Ashes review concluded that it was primarily external factors that had been holding England back. Gravity Video analysis of the last Ashes series revealed that a great many England dismissals could have been prevented had the tourists had better control of the Earth's gravitational pull. In addition to this, not only would most catches off their batting not have been taken, each delivery would also have resulted in a six.

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