I think he looks compact enough to be a specialist bat if Pant's going to keep. Or the other way round if Pant wants to take it easy and he's decent with the gloves. A good reserve for the immediate future anyway once the regulars are back.
It's because Rajkot has historically been a complete road of a pitch where you get 500+ batting first.
My frustration is at the real nothing shots our batsmen keep playing. Jurel, when Pope dropped him, for example. He should have done what he just now did off Rehan. Gone for the 6. When the fielder is in the circle, we keep somehow hitting these nothing shots in the air straight to them. Its not like we are being nicked off at the slips or anything, which at least means the bowler is being too good. We keep hitting half trackers and full tosses back to the ring fielders or the bowler. For all the good stuff Stokes has done as captain, and his field placings have been very good at times for sure, he is being made to look a genius for having a cover point, midwicket and a mid on a lot of the time. Its like those nothing defensive prods batters play outside off for absolutely no reason.
They seem to think Bumrah is gonna hang around.
motto of the series so far
Indeed had Joe taken Rohit.
Yeah felt 450 would be par at first but looking at the bounce here, and this is not even that old a ball, I feel 400 is par. But having won the toss, you wanna do much better than par.
