Have to sympathise with bowlers in these circumstances.
Yep all series.
Not yet it isn't. Bopara has to cash-in first. Hands-up who currently feels terribly confident he'll do so?
Yep.
ROFL. So by bopara's standard this series "cash-in" means score 20 or more ???
Should probably have said "who of those supporting England feels..." TBH.
Well, if they could it'd kind of dampen the impact a well-disguised arm ball would have. Taken in isolation then yes, a batsman should be able to play a straight ball. Taking how the preceeding play has set him up, maybe he won't.
Do not bother; it will give you a headache. Trust me.
Even if he makes, say, 35 more after said drop, it could prove big in this match, if not Bopara's career. If England are ahead by 400 by the time Prior and Flintoff get to the crease you'd feel very confident.
If he'd been ripping the ball square yes, but he hadn't been. He had not bowled so far in the session - it was his first ball. You cannot set a batsman up by not bowling.
Well yeah, but even if he isn't out there for that much longer, it'd be a lot harder for Collingwood to come in right now with Australia having picked up three (or four) quick wickets than in 30 minutes or so. The threat of a collapse always means a lot.
Hasn't looked himself to me since he top-edged that sweep 3 short of a century at Sabina Park. He was castled by a superlative ball second time around, but from the Second Test (yes, the official Second Test didn't count because nothing happened) onwards he's been poor.
Haha, we're trying to outjinx each other. Love it.
He'd bowled two overs before lunch though, in which virtually every ball was outside off and turning away fractionally. Cook had lined him up for that sort of bowling and Hauritz exploited both this and Cook's technical weakness with a good delivery.
