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*Official Third Test at Headingley* 25-29 August

Uppercut

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honestbharani said:
He is really batting on a different planet. Others are scoring runs but there is no series where I feel the batsmen can feel truly confident of being dominant, today. And he is just getting it done so easily. This is Smith-esque and that is as high a praise as you can give for a current day batsman.
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I was thinking the same thing. It's like he's playing a different game to everyone else. Been a tough series for batsmen but if Root was the only one batting you'd think the English groundsmen had prepared three pancakes.
 
trundler

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This is truly remarkable. Yousufesque but he played much softer opposition from memory. Richardsian, even.
 
Teja.

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At this point, it's probably good for India if this loss is as perverse and humiliating as possible to force changes in the middle order. Worst thing that can happen is if Pujara and Rahane jam 50s in a innings + 300 run defeat to keep their place in the side based on scoring the most dead and useless runs ever.
 
The Sean

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The Sean said:
There are rare occasions where we see a batsman who just seems to have cracked the cheat code, become one with the Matrix, whatever - as Calm Profit says above, Steve Smith was in that zone in the last Ashes. Root feels like he has entered that space here too - not just the quantity of runs he's scoring, but the fact he's doing it so effortlessly it's like he's playing a different game.
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Uppercut said:
I was thinking the same thing. It's like he's playing a different game to everyone else. Been a tough series for batsmen but if Root was the only one batting you'd think the English groundsmen had prepared three pancakes.
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Come up with your own analogy. :p
 
honestbharani

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Uppercut said:
I was thinking the same thing. It's like he's playing a different game to everyone else. Been a tough series for batsmen but if Root was the only one batting you'd think the English groundsmen had prepared three pancakes.
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I know he is making more runs here and at Lords, but to me, his efforts in Trent Bridge were the best knocks. He has got the best conditions of both Lords and here so far IMO, but Trent Bridge was a 3 day loss for England without him. Amazing.
 
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Teja. said:
At this point, it's probably good for India if this loss is as perverse and humiliating as possible to force changes in the middle order. Worst thing that can happen is if Pujara and Rahane jam 50s in a innings + 300 run defeat to keep their place in the side based on scoring the most dead and useless runs ever.
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Well Rahane doesn't care to turn up in lost causes does he? Silver linings.
 
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