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    **Official** 4th Test at Melbourne, 26-30 Dec 2024

    ‘lit up test cricket in 35 minutes’. He’s got 19 off 27 balls. Hardly revolutionary.
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    One thing that’s particularly pathetic/annoying about the normal England mantra in these situations of ‘not playing for a draw, give it a go, records are there to be broken’ etc is that if they were serious about it, why not fecking take more seriously the task of keeping the actual target down...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    That would require acknowledgement of the radical take that batting time for time’s sake does sometimes have value!
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Shows up their protestations about how they’re on a mission to entertain though. The contempt they show to those who pay good money (and even those less so through the TV subscriptions that pay their wages) to go and watch them often belies that. The impression is given that they play for...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    You can’t try to argue for the “loss of intensity/lack of edge with series won” line when you don’t even make any effort to do the right things in relation to decision making
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    In 27.5 overs.
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Yeah - “catches not going to hand” means ball flying through 3rd slip when you’ve got 2 slips, 4th slip and a gully, or going to long leg on the bounce when you’ve got two men back on the hook. Definitely not multiple dropped catches, not even probably balls falling into space when you’ve set...
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    England in Sri Lanka 2000-1
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Indeed. Although Bazball does seem to have encouraged a reversion to type in this area.
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Finding a method that works in the conditions is part of what being a test batsman is (or should be) all about. And capitalising when conditions are in your favour what being a successful team is all about. And as you say - even more so in the SC.
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    No strategy, or extremely one dimensional strategy? The difference between eg. “Sweeping being the favoured scoring shot” and “sweeping being the only shot” (even when it becomes apparent that it is not the way to go on a particular pitch).
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    It’s one of the issues with “Bazball”. Overly simplistic approach to batting (and bowling) that seems to take little account of/downplay normal changing test match conditions (eg. Condition of ball/pitch/ tiredness of bowlers etc). It’s no coincidence it’s been at its most effective on truer...
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Quite probably. But then "hope to get a defendable lead" still doesn't = "match level" to me! Like i intimated though, part of the point is just to laugh at the pointlessness of the modern player interviews rather than anything specific. Even more so when the BBC has a match report that quite...
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    I know post play player interviews can be relied upon to be absolute garbage worthy of the finest example of spinning a positive outcome in all circumstances, but this one was a bit of a zinger i think... https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/c8ekl15dzzwo "England spinner Rehan Ahmed says...
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    New Zealand to claim World Cup win in 2019 on basis that batsmen had crossed…🫣
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    If he bats no6 for his county (even if it is Leic) then he should aspire to be better than that. He should be capable of the mindset of a batsman, even if his game needs to improve. Then again there is just something about batting at the bottom of the order that seems to make people think like...
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Butcher (Mk 2)
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    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Presumably this is where the similarities end, but this scorecard is somewhat reminiscent of the first Ashes test back in 1997.
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    Joe Root is number one

    Root up to career high 932, Brook level with Williamson in second.
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    The decline of the part-time medium pacer

    Yeah - I just think a factor may have been the players themselves refusing to do it. Worried that if they did too good a job it might become seen as part of a factor in their future selection. And in extremes the one they might actually be judged on. How many times did we hear (for example)...

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