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*Official* First Test (Edgbaston, Birmingham) 16–20 June

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grecian said:
This is an interesting point, we do live in a time where longevity in sportsman generally is much more common than it was, but Smith has always been an huge anomaly in that his batting is so dominated by incredible hand-eye co-ordination rather than technique that his demise could be quick.

Obvs massive wishful-thinking from me, but a possibility.
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Disagree

Forget about everything that goes on beforehand, Smith is technically excellent at impact and much better than great eye players like Viv, Ponting and Warner
 
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slowfinger said:
It does signify though that both Vettori and Lyon had much better backing and were allowed to bowl much longer spells than Moeen who was under pressure of coming off after almost every over bowled.
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Broad Anderson Robinson Vettori is so much better than Broad Anderson Robinson Moeen though. Either spinner would be the worst bowler and you really don’t want your worst bowler to have a massive E/R.
 
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Vettori and Moeen are very different bowlers. Moeen goes for glory and can be the guy who goes bang bang despite his accuracy limitations, Vettori trolls and excels when surrounded by better bowlers because you can't just sit on him then and he wants you to try going downtown on him.
 
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TheJediBrah said:
Smith is far less-reliant on hand-eye coordination than Warner, or Labuschagne, or Head or most Top-level cricketers. He almost always gets in a position where he's right over the line of the ball and playing it under his eyes. Him needing hand-eye coordination more than most is a myth that has never gone away and I think it's literally just because he walks across his stumps and plays straight balls to leg a lot
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I think this became a major talking point when Ponting declined and since then it just gets reapplied to every batsman that peaks similarly high.
 
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