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I missed the presentation. Did Rohit give Ben Duckett and the English team the credit they deserve for the way India have played their cricket?
India were missing half their regular team were they not?England: Go to India and perform better than last time despite brook and leach missing the whole series, and Root underperforming relative to last series. England where very close to being 2-2 heading into the last test FFS.
Should Australia drop mcdonald as coach? They've done about as well as we did at this point in our respective India series last year.
Was talking about England tbf, but yeah should be a good one.I'm salivating for that series. Aussies will be favorites of course, but if India can even pull of a draw, it would be insane to have three series in a row...that's BG held for 10+ years....
As opposed to Asia, where Asian countries have at least a 50% chance of beating SENA teams in any of those 4 host countries?Eng is not a neutral venue for Asian teams, anyone with half a pint of blood in their brains would know that. Most S.E.N.A. have at least a 50/50 chance to beat Asian teams in any of these 4 host countries
Whose school photos are they?
Function of how much our batting against spin sucks these days.It's going to be interesting to see how this series affects England's approach. I don't think it will that much, but if Root has worked out he's better off being in rather than playing reverse paddle sweeps, and the guys around him who are better off going for it do that (the Crawleys; Ducketts etc), then at least something positive has come out of this series for them. A bit more of a balance in their approach at times with the bat would make them more of a handful.
Of course, I hope they still play insane shots at the wrong moment because that is funnier, but they've shown they have some decent players to fall back on.
Mind you, we looked to have a couple of handy extra spinners in India too, but then they went elsewhere and were not as useful outside the subcontinent.
Stokes generally doesn't start all guns blazing when he makes a score either, but yeah. If that's the case, then they go about it however it suits each individual bat. I think Stokes is doing that now, but Root seems to have been trying too hard to go with the flow rather than adopting the approach that is best for him, up until the last test.View attachment 39377
I think they put this graphic up during the 3rd Test but it shows that apart from Rootie these guys need to Bazball to be effective at Test level. Don't think the lineup collectively has the technique to be successful playing conventionally.
We prepare wickets that allow both teams to play. Don't crucify us for it. Being too nice is both our biggest strength and our biggest weakness.Australians getting too uppity despite their embarrassing summer at home against Pakistan and WI who on average lose by 6000 runs every time they tour.
Who is the second test standard player?with two traditional test standard players thrown in.
Kohli was junk in that series unlike Bumrah now tbhI mean if you think Virat missed 2017 BG, then Bumrah missed this series.
someone on reddit made a long ass post with this table arguing that this is proof of only Bairstow benefitting from bazballView attachment 39377
I think they put this graphic up during the 3rd Test but it shows that apart from Rootie these guys need to Bazball to be effective at Test level. Don't think the lineup collectively has the technique to be successful playing conventionally.
That is not what he said thoughKohli was junk in that series unlike Bumrah now tbh