Then why would you pick him in the other Tests in the first place?However, if he's been dropped on his performances over the past five years, it's a perfectly reasonable decision.
Until Cook gets to 58.Looking like another fairly slow, not-especially-bouncy deck. Strauss and Cook just need to be careful here and there's a massive stand in the offing.
Or maybe not. Someone like Stuart Clark could destroy Cook...and if his position is weak enough it's another way back into the team for MPV.Probably. But he has to break the jinx sometime - let's hope it's today.
Depends whether he's driving square or through cover-point to mid-off. The latter is a sign of real confidence, the former is what nearly ended his international career.On this pitch you'd probably say it is, though obviously normally it isn't. Strauss is much better the less off-side driving he does.
Great, Vaughan opening - that's all we need.Or maybe not. Someone like Stuart Clark could destroy Cook...and if his position is weak enough it's another way back into the team for MPV.
I'd say there's a bit of crossover between the two TBH. I think he tried to do too much of it in 2006 and 2007 (and the first 5 innings' in New Zealand in 2008) and in part that might've been due to overconfidence, though other factors were probably playing too many ODIs and trying to adapt, the wrong-headed thought that one of the openers had to be aggressive and as Trescothick mostly missed the Tests in those periods he thought it had to be him, and purely and simply not being able to play as well as he did in his opening year in Test cricket.Depends whether he's driving square or through cover-point to mid-off. The latter is a sign of real confidence, the former is what nearly ended his international career.
Hence the quotation marks in my original post. TBH, thats being quite picky, because everyone who follows cricket to at least some extent knows roughly what is meant by a 'hit-the-deck' bowler. Its all really a matter of perception.Whatever a "hit-the-deck" bowler actually is. No-one's ever really defined it. All bowlers hit the deck, some at faster speeds than others, some from greater height than others, some losing more pace off the deck than others, some getting the deck to make the ball do more than others, some getting the ball to do more before hitting the deck than others...
Exactly.Then why would you pick him in the other Tests in the first place?
Possibly. There's a bit more potential for collapse in these two sides than there is in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Say what you want about their batsmen, but they're absolute pros at cashing in on subcontinental featherbeds.So another Karachi in the offering?