Fuller Pilch
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Secret Agent Stokes might not have followed orders well at the World Cup, but at least he's got the brief now. Hopefully that drop will be as significant as dropping Watling at MM.
Just speaking from my own experience of playing, loads of times I didn’t know if I’d edged a caught behind or not. Surprised the commentators would never have experienced that before."The batsman always knows when he's hit it."
Ok boomer.
They're so dug in on this false premise that even when presented with clear evidence to the contrary they just dig in further and claim he can't have hit it because he didn't know. Circular reasoning at its finest. He smashed it.
Yeah I'm guessing they just assumed that every time they didn't know that they were actually sawn off.Just speaking from my own experience of playing, loads of times I didn’t know if I’d edged a caught behind or not. Surprised the commentators would never have experienced that before.
It kind of makes sense for the pre-technology era. If you don't feel anything yourself you're not likely to trust others to give a differing correct verdict. What's hilarious is that we've had DRS in most test series for a decade now and there a genuinely hundreds of instances of batsman either wrongly reviewing when they hit it, failing to review when they didn't or just feeling the need to discuss with their batting partner over a caught behind or inside edge issue. To still bang on the myth in 2019 shows an inability to change your worldview when presented with new evidence. For that reason it's hardly surprising a lot of the very worst commentators are the ones that still use it the most.Yeah I'm guessing they just assumed that every time they didn't know that they were actually sawn off.
Could see him copping a lot of flack from people for this on bad days in the future when he's less new and exciting. The kinds of people who were really worried about him disrupting the culture of the side before the World Cup would probably be more than happy to stick the boot in.archer's body language is trash. dude is clearly not used to having to graft for his wickets.
huh, not sure where you’re going with this.Could see him copping a lot of flack from people for this on bad days in the future when he's less new and exciting. The kinds of people who were really worried about him disrupting the culture of the side before the World Cup would probably be more than happy to stick the boot in.
It's a real thing but can see it becoming disproportionately covered. Tbf a lot of people love dissecting that stuff regardless of the player. I think it's not helped by the fact Archer has a really relaxed action even when he's bowling well/quickly. It never really looks like he's bowling effort balls.huh, not sure where you’re going with this.
he’s just got poor body language, nothing wrong with criticising that. it’s a real thing that can lift/deflate your teammates.