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*Official* Second Test (Lord's, London) 28 June–2 July

mackembhoy

mackembhoy

International Debutant
Urgh ffs Australia you've got KP talking crap now.

He's saying it's a difficult bowling tactic and not awful batting. Tubby for some reason is backing him up.

Sky commentary team this series is utterly horrendous.

Nas, Athers and Ponting aside it's woeful.
 
TheJediBrah

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Woodster said:
Seems like maybe it’s not as easy to resist this kind of attack! We rightly criticised our batters yesterday for how we played it, now the same obvious tactic has removed the batsman of the series so far when set and one of the best in the world when also set! What’s going on?!
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I would say they were victims of being ahead in the game. If Aus were behind and not looking to push the game along they would have more likely just let it go by and eventually England would have been forced to change tactics
 
Daemon

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Woodster said:
Seems like maybe it’s not as easy to resist this kind of attack! We rightly criticised our batters yesterday for how we played it, now the same obvious tactic has removed the batsman of the series so far when set and one of the best in the world when also set! What’s going on?!
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I think a key difference is Australia have less of an incentive to just see the barrage out. They rather take the risk and score runs given they can afford to.
 
TheJediBrah

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mackembhoy said:
Urgh ffs Australia you've got KP talking crap now.

He's saying it's a difficult bowling tactic and not awful batting. Tubby for some reason is backing him up.

Sky commentary team this series is utterly horrendous.

Nas, Athers and Ponting aside it's woeful.
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They're absolutely correct. It's an effective tactic for exactly the reasons Tubby was saying. You can set a field for it that makes it very difficult to score and survive. You basically have to pick one. It's Wagnerball
 
G

G. S. Kohli

International Vice-Captain
Eng Conceded 68 extra runs so far in Lords test

Old old Guy dropped 2 catches now

Can eng chase 335 or 349 for win (if weather remain good)
 
CartyDurham

CartyDurham

International Captain
Australia doing well to score at 3.2 an over. I thought it was way less with this dull tactic

Somehow England are still in this game.

First innings the last 7 wickets of Australia made 100

England need to remove them for around or less than that to have a chance
 
Gob

Gob

International Coach
TheJediBrah said:
They're absolutely correct. It's an effective tactic for exactly the reasons Tubby was saying. You can set a field for it that makes it very difficult to score and survive. You basically have to pick one. It's Wagnerball
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Yeah can't see them scoring runs here. Either try to roll the wrists like Smith and get a high risk single or take on the boundary
 
K

kevinw

International 12th Man
Tubby talking about intimidating bowling. These are top order batters, if they can't play 80mph bouncers, give up. I can understand if it's Anderson or Hazlewood at the crease but if Head can't play bouncers that's his deal.
 
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