My recollection is that he just kept going on the backfoot too much against Yasir. That really did him in.It's not only that Pope couldn't play Shah, it's that he looked like an absolute idiot. If he plays the same way in India I'd expect that the first one or two instances of the ball skidding on straight will do him in every time.
They showed a stat during innings he'd played 8 reverse sweeps and hit 7 of them for a strike rate of 270What's been the percentage of boundaries sweeping for Root? He's playing the reverse as safely as the orthodox version atm.
I think Cricinfo said today that this Root innings was the 2nd highest they had in their database for sweep shot % played (not sure how far back they've been recording shot selection data). The only innings ahead of it was Root's double from the previous Test.Another interesting sweep stat which they showed yesterday, and when Root was still well under 100 runs, was that he scored 68 runs with the sweep alone this series – that’s probably 100+ now. Next best was Bairstow with 20 odd runs from the sweep with no Sri Lankan in double figures. Matthews was their highest with 8 runs.
Please don't, we all thought this about Cook too....Root stands a fair chance of breaking Sachin's record for most runs
Wonder if that goes back to Haydens heroics in '01I think Cricinfo said today that this Root innings was the 2nd highest they had in their database for sweep shot % played (not sure how far back they've been recording shot selection data). The only innings ahead of it was Root's double from the previous Test.