flibbertyjibber
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They are the only places he hasn't toured yet. Will chalk them off soon enough and should be ok when he is there.
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*Official* Fourth Test at Trent Bridge
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OverratedSanity
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Played a good knock in India on debut didn't he? Was a nightmare of a pitch to score runs as well iirc
flibbertyjibber
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Think everyone will accept you need a bigger sample size than one match.
indiaholic
International Captain
Yeah and I think he has changed a bit as a player. The debut innings was all bloody minded attrition.
flibbertyjibber
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Melbourne when Aussies were 98 and we were 157-0
OverratedSanity
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Oh of course. Did technically tour though, and made runs, that's all
Niall
International Coach
Did he make any hugely costly errors either series with the gloves though?
I can't remember any although I will admit my memory is the absolute pits at the best of the time!
indiaholic
International Captain
That was the time when he absolutely refused to dive, right?
grecian
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This day has read a bit like something GIMP says "jokingly" at the start of play. "we'll bowl them out before lunch and Root will score a ton and we'll be over 200 ahead".
Actually his prediction "we'll be batting by tea" was extremely conservative in reality, less of a cheerleader, more of a pessimist, will call him WPGIMP from now on.
Root doubles the Oz score.
Actually his prediction "we'll be batting by tea" was extremely conservative in reality, less of a cheerleader, more of a pessimist, will call him WPGIMP from now on.
Root doubles the Oz score.
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ImpatientLime
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**** pitch this one lads
Reminded me a lot of the first day of the 1997 Ashes, when Australia were 55-8 or something like that before Warne got them up to 100.
Then Thorpe and Hussain stayed in for about a day and a half.
Amazing thing about the Australian innings was 8-9 of the dismissals were to genuinely good balls (some perhaps could have been played better but still they were good balls) and the catching was phenomenal.
Makes you realise how much impact dropping one at 10-2 might have had, in terms of the psychology of both teams. England had a habit of dropping catches against Australia at key times - and being ruthlessly punished for them.
Thinking of 97 again - the what if of the Mike Smith drop...
Then Thorpe and Hussain stayed in for about a day and a half.
Amazing thing about the Australian innings was 8-9 of the dismissals were to genuinely good balls (some perhaps could have been played better but still they were good balls) and the catching was phenomenal.
Makes you realise how much impact dropping one at 10-2 might have had, in terms of the psychology of both teams. England had a habit of dropping catches against Australia at key times - and being ruthlessly punished for them.
Thinking of 97 again - the what if of the Mike Smith drop...
King Pietersen
International Captain
Bloody hell. Deserved a ton after all the hard work!
Biryani Pillow
U19 Vice-Captain
Is that the Australia Nos 3 and 4 for the next Test?
#ThingsSteveSmithHasDoneThatJoeRootHasn't
