Woodster
International Captain
Pitches of this nature certainly create some exciting cricket. Bairstow with the attitude there’s a popper just round the corner is going at anything slightly over pitched or with any width, and it has worked brilliantly to this point.
Burns got a decent one although played slightly across it, Denly’s was a poor shot and Root could do nothing at all with his.
Buttler’s is the most interesting one for me. I didn’t mind him coming down the pitch, it made sense, he didn’t want Holder settling in on that good attacking length and at his pace it does allow the batsman to come down and disrupt his rhythm. Problem being is that he ended up prodding at a ball that was probably about 6th stump line, a dismissal indicative of his early struggles in Test cricket.
Burns got a decent one although played slightly across it, Denly’s was a poor shot and Root could do nothing at all with his.
Buttler’s is the most interesting one for me. I didn’t mind him coming down the pitch, it made sense, he didn’t want Holder settling in on that good attacking length and at his pace it does allow the batsman to come down and disrupt his rhythm. Problem being is that he ended up prodding at a ball that was probably about 6th stump line, a dismissal indicative of his early struggles in Test cricket.
