Possibly not, but a public dummy spit is not the way to enhance one's chances of a recall when one's replacement comes up short.
Selective memory there, Blocky. In the early days of Cook's captaincy for England not only were the team successful but he individually was successful.
Nah, I mean it would've been a big effort for England to win, but with Root still at the crease and Plunkett and Broad still to come, there was no reason to think that the game was over. England needed about 120 to win at that point. A sound and sensible 20-30 could've made a huge impact on the game. Instead he plays an utterly mindless stroke with 3 men back for the hook. If he was looking for quick runs then he should've tried slamming it through the off-side, half of Sharma's deliveries were well wide of off-stump. It was horrendous batting and he deserves all the criticism that he gets for it.
Fair enough on the post dropping behaviour. But I do feel that it was at least somewhat justified given the, IMO, clear double standards on how long a player was allowed to go through a rut before the cutting of the throat. There was obviously something more to it and the obvious things to think of are batting style or personality. Given the subsequent way Root batted in the Ashes series that followed, I'm more inclined to think that it may have been the latter.
That is an awful way to excuse a poor shot.
look I agree it was a poor shot but:
Don't let him being at 8 fool you. His designated role isn't just to bowl with runs being a bonus.
True enough, i suppose he and the beard are an amalgam. I guess we have to ask whether Jordan would contributed more with bat and ball. Maybe, would be my answer.
Plunkett bowling short first day, Anderson's lines and the dropped catches and poor captaincy on day one cost them an order of magnitude than any of the 4th innings batting failures.
Probably Finn? Though his numbers for Middlesex this season aren't earth shattering.
