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

flibbertyjibber

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By the end of Hazlewood’s spell Robinson was basically stopping for a smoke waiting for the ball to get there.
He has looked cooked as the game has gone on. He's lucky they have a week off and not a back to back game or he'd miss next one. He may anyway and just play 1,3 and 5 and Starc plays next week to strengthen the tail.
 

wpdavid

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England just giving up a Joe Root wicket for nothing in a game this tight will never stop being hilarious if they lose.
Yeah, even allowing for what's happened in the last 12 months I'm still pretty grumpy about how wasteful we've been in this test.
 

Spark

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It's like they've tried to do what England did to their tailenders only without the same pace or fields to support the plan.
The thing is, we have a bowler with the pace and the height to make that tactic more dangerous! He hasn't even bowled in this innings so he's surely fresh. We just don't use him for some bizarre reason.
 

flibbertyjibber

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Robinson has quietly had a good game. 17, 3-55 and 24* so far. Robinson's batting under bazball has been a bit underappreciated in general honestly. Hasen't been amazing, but he's averaged 21 with the bat and played a few important 25-40 odd's
Which made the declaration even more bizarre as they could have added another 50 or so.
 

flibbertyjibber

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The thing is, we have a bowler with the pace and the height to make that tactic more dangerous! He hasn't even bowled in this innings so he's surely fresh. We just don't use him for some bizarre reason.
Is he injured?

Only reason to not use him.
 

OverratedSanity

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The thing is, we have a bowler with the pace and the height to make that tactic more dangerous! He hasn't even bowled in this innings so he's surely fresh. We just don't use him for some bizarre reason.
You mean green? He really sucked at this role when he was asked to do it in the India series tbf. Although he was asked to do it basically every over he bowled.
 

Burgey

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The thing is, we have a bowler with the pace and the height to make that tactic more dangerous! He hasn't even bowled in this innings so he's surely fresh. We just don't use him for some bizarre reason.
Should bring him on right about now
 

Nintendo

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Which made the declaration even more bizarre as they could have added another 50 or so.
If they add another 50 odd they don't get 2 shots to bowl at the top 3 with a new rock and don't get as many overs under cloud at the start of day 2. England got Australia 20-2, and 60-3 on a road, who knows if they do that if they don't declare. Australia should have been rolled for 300 and Australia facing a 350+ chase here.
 

Spark

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You mean green? He really sucked at this role when he was asked to do it in the India series tbf. Although he was asked to do it basically every over he bowled.
I don't think that series should be taken too seriously in terms of his bowling (assuming you mean the series in Aus) - he basically relearned how to bowl the off-season after that.
 

wpdavid

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Robinson has quietly had a good game. 17, 3-55 and 24* so far. Robinson's batting under bazball has been a bit underappreciated in general honestly. Hasen't been amazing, but he's averaged 21 with the bat and played a few important 25-40 odd's
Ah, now look what you've done. :dry:

My observation about Robinson's batting a few months ago is that Ben has had a word and told him to take it seriously.
 

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