honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Dude, you are putting words in my mouth here. I think it was pretty clearly silly of them to have the fields they did and they were very clearly a response to Bazball and so they were obviously spooked by Bazball that they went away from what they would do normally.implicitly, here you have conceded that your initial point that australia were spooked and went away from their gameplans is wrong and really your bigger gripe is perhaps that you don't like the plan that which they implemented, and think it was a bad strategy - and that is fine and your opinion! as bambino says, you might well think and it might well be that the plan was actually unwise, but it was pretty clear it was a concerted strategy, formulated in the war room to counter the type of cricket that had previously worked for england across various conditions and various teams
Again, I understand if they were 100 ahead after the first innings (even then I wont agree) or something, but to do it when the game was dead even and not even a single ball was bowled shows they were spooked AFAIC. I just dont see how anything I said contradicts this.