Son Of Coco
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Also recall Haddin's dismissal differently, to me it looked like he tried to shovel a ball that was too full and beat him in the air a little over mid-on/mid-wicket, thus doing exactly what the English had set a field expecting him to try to do.
'That's the way he plays' shouldn't be expected to be good enough in local grade cricket at the upper levels, let alone test cricket. You're paid hundred of thousands of dollars a year, part of that should require you to be smart enough to think about what's required in a given situation on a given deck. The best way to adjust to it is to stay in long enough to work out what's going on. If you're beaten by a good ball before that can happen then it's unlucky, if you go out all guns blazing because 'that's the way you play', it's really dumb.
It's the way Warner plays too, but he at least had the nous to try to hang around in the second innings until he thought he knew what was going on wih the deck, and then he played a few shots. Given how England were bowling, he needed some luck. But he got enough to get through a tough period and still be in a position to go on with it.
But then I suppose that's what the selectors are there for in the end, to work out whether a bloke was a victim of the conditions, or his own stupidity.
