It's more how he flashes for me. If he plays full blooded vertical bat shots then he'll be fine, the top edges will fly way over gully (the Travis Head story, basically). But the wristy flick which slides off the open face at catchable height is suicide in Aus.He'll get value for his shots if he flashes hard but he can't half heartedly poke off the back foot like he does. Cummins will exploit that ruthlessly.
Just has to hang back and commit to his backfoot shots and go after width if its short, for me. If its full or length and outside off, that is when you gotta leave them over there.It's more how he flashes for me. If he plays full blooded vertical bat shots then he'll be fine, the top edges will fly way over gully (the Travis Head story, basically). But the wristy flick which slides off the open face at catchable height is suicide in Aus.
I frankly can't see Monimul getting dropped..... Probably one of them in MO can open??Yeah tbf, it's tricky because he's not going to open. Shanto can't be dropped while he's the captain and Mushfiq's still making runs. You'd have to drop Mominul and play him at 4 or 5 as Litton has made nearly all his runs batting at 5 and 6 and been a disaster further up the order. Ideally you'd drop Shanto but it's clearly not on the cards.
TMI mate, but you do you.It's more how he flashes for me.
Burgey eat your heart out
Pant looked like he never left test cricket at all. The pitch remains pretty flat but the early declaration might be partly due to the rain prediction on days 4 and 5.I haven’t been watching, how has Pant looked in his return? Also dunno the pitch/weather but seems a relatively early dec no?