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It made Ballance at Cardiff look fluent.
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**Official** Pakistan and England in the UAE 2015/16
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theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
Honestly I was completely fine with his innings to he had around 50. Sure it wasn't pretty but he was adapting to conditions and working the team into a strong position.
It was the stasis after tea where that to me was so infuriating. Just dead batting over after over of non threatening spin.
It's so much between the ears with Bell. He just gets it into his head some days about how he should play and never differs his approach. The chances of England winning this game are limited regardless but you'd expect someone with 100+ tests to look at the situation after tea, with Cook at the other end, and looked to up the rate and hope to give England a chance to win the game.
Worth his place still undoubtedly imo, but so infuriating.
Howe_zat
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AndyZaltzHair
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3 days straight up in the middle goes to show the mental strength of Cook. Could be close to 4 tomorrow!
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Statistically, yes.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Nah. There was a ridiculous article praising him as artist and people jazz their pants over his pishy wee dabs to third man.
Cook or Trott would never be described as artists yet they actually get their runs as quickly as Bell. He's just a mix over over-rated shots, turgidness and mental softness.
Cabinet96
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Yeah, a few others average a bit more but don't have the weight of 8 tons in 4 different countries. The amount of people who have played enough to really be in the discussion is quite small though.
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Amla imo
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Bob Willis chatting absolute ****e in the Verdict.
This is winnable for England. Extremely ****ing unlikely, but still winnable. I completely disagree with his assertion that England have clearly set their stall out to bat for a draw. Moeen isn't secure in the team and his place in under question. Natural for him to be careful. Bell is on the decline and in rotten form. Natural for him to bat a bit slowly and tugidly. Cook's scoring rate throughout his innings has been fine. Root, if he's in form will score fine, and the players to come are dashers. When you're up against 520, you need to get through day 3 without losing many wickets. England have done that. If they can get to avoiding the follow on without losing wickets and Cook and Root play themselves back in, that's when you step on the accelerator.
Come the end of day 4, England would want to be around parity/slightly ahead. Declare overnight, pray the pitch deteriorates a wee bit, and see what Pakistan do on day 5. The answer is probably "easily bat their way to a draw" but strange things can happen to a batting lineup when they're against good bowlers and in a position where they cannot win the game.
This is winnable for England. Extremely ****ing unlikely, but still winnable. I completely disagree with his assertion that England have clearly set their stall out to bat for a draw. Moeen isn't secure in the team and his place in under question. Natural for him to be careful. Bell is on the decline and in rotten form. Natural for him to bat a bit slowly and tugidly. Cook's scoring rate throughout his innings has been fine. Root, if he's in form will score fine, and the players to come are dashers. When you're up against 520, you need to get through day 3 without losing many wickets. England have done that. If they can get to avoiding the follow on without losing wickets and Cook and Root play themselves back in, that's when you step on the accelerator.
Come the end of day 4, England would want to be around parity/slightly ahead. Declare overnight, pray the pitch deteriorates a wee bit, and see what Pakistan do on day 5. The answer is probably "easily bat their way to a draw" but strange things can happen to a batting lineup when they're against good bowlers and in a position where they cannot win the game.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Spot on
Compton
International Debutant
It's been well covered, but Bell has somehow managed to have one of those brave, battling innings you see on minefields all whilst playing on the flattest of flat pitches.
Looked all at sea, and never even close to comfortable. Was lucky to survive just about every ball he faced.
Still, better to have his experience than an in-form James Taylor
Looked all at sea, and never even close to comfortable. Was lucky to survive just about every ball he faced.
Still, better to have his experience than an in-form James Taylor
hendrix
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