Yeah, Compton's career was likely finished with an innings like that at Headingly against the Kiwis. Don't know if it's worth it for one last test in a series though. Unless we lose and it's a Bopara/Trott like situation.
You're not gonna find too many umps who will be impressed with a cross batted swat like that.
Oh yeah the shot deserved to be out, suppose clipping the stumps is still out as well. Still like to see more certainty from umpires before they trigger someone,
6 English batsman average above Australia's second best batsman so I don't know about very poor. Just lacking a bit of confidence against a good attack, having retained the Ashes.
Reminds me of Cardiff really.
Yessss.
Well JB will get one more chance, in the next innings, but he's been worse as the series has gone on, and he wasn't exactly Bradman at the start.
I'm being a bit extreme yes. More overhyped really.
Is there a block user feature on this forum? Like so I don't see his posts? Waste of bandwidth this bloke.
I think its the perfect time to blood a fresh batsman. Give him (presumably Taylor) a Test and see if he can book his ticket on the Australian tour if he performs well.
There is an ignore feature, not worth being on CW if you use it on Benchy though
Haha yeah I was thinking that. It's not really a technical thing with Lyon though; he's done it because of the conditions.Does anyone else find it funny that as soon as Cribb made that post about footmarks helping Lyon more than Swann, due to Swann being better around the wicket, Lyon has bowled everything around the wicket and got four wickets
While Trott can be blamed Cook got a good one. They showed it was the widest ball of all his leaves to Bird which were all going past another set of stumps
