Nup, we're 6 out all out with the way our lower order looks here.
I mean it's easy to say that but it's a lot harder to actually learn to read a guy through the air. Ashwin and Jadeja in particular are probably the most difficult spinners in the world in that respect.
He's going to have to bowl as well as he bowled as well.
Jadeja is a wily old fox, he knows how to bowl that awkward length where batsmen are uncertain whether to go back or forward.
Ajaz and O'Rourke have significantly less talent with the bat than Southee and Henry, but typically last a lot longer at the crease because they don't have the shots necessary to bat like dickheads.
No doubt, it was perfect bowling. But Phillips now knows he has to develop a better game plan, because going back to the majority of balls is not going to work when Jadeja/Kuldeep/Ashwin now know how he's trying to play
It genuinely pisses me off and it's a clear sign of a fundamental lack of seriousness in a team's mindset when tailenders feel like they have license to do whatever they damn well please even if there's a set batsman at the other end just because they're not "expected" to be able to bat. They're professionals, these days they're all practiced enough with the bat to have a competent defensive game, they should actually play like professionals.
100%. But that's the challenge. There's been successful strategies in the past of not being able to read a guy out of the hand - Fleming scored 267* against peak Murali in Sri Lanka, admitting he couldn't pick his doosra at all.
