silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
It's crazy that I always hear 'Oh yaaaar....' even when India are not playing. They are clearly saying 'oh ya...' but I have to do a double take every time.
But............ the vibes maaaaaaan.I agree with Uppercut that people just forget all the ranting and raving about how bad the batting is before a transformative innings that there was during all of this Bazball era. What I think was frustrating about that period today was how the players didn't seem overtly comfortable with what they're doing or have a great mind-set for it. So we weren't even scoring runs from it.
We watch IPL, and England on good pitches in ODI's and we see the point, the way they go after certain bowlers with certain shots that is natural to the batsman's game. Here Duckett can't hook the ball, so don't ****ing do it. Brook was trying to slog the ball to the on-side and ended up looking like a tail-ender, thankfully he calmed down and we may see a vital innings in the morning, it's already ok in terms of runs.
Look the ODI set-up has worked bloody hard at becoming number 1 in the World with detailed plans, if we want to do the same with Tests we have to work out are plans in the same way. If Pope and Duckett had just kept ducking the ball, then the Oz bowlers would have had to go back to how they were bowling, and in the end as showed at the end, you can't carry on doing that in hot and humid conditions.
Maybe one or two less days on the golf course and more practicing in the nets with an heavy ball bowled at their heads.
Ah but Duckett said just now that if they had ducked then the Aussies would have won! 2nd arrogant interview of the evening. Pig-headedly inflexible.I agree with Uppercut that people just forget all the ranting and raving about how bad the batting is before a transformative innings that there was during all of this Bazball era. What I think was frustrating about that period today was how the players didn't seem overtly comfortable with what they're doing or have a great mind-set for it. So we weren't even scoring runs from it.
We watch IPL, and England on good pitches in ODI's and we see the point, the way they go after certain bowlers with certain shots that is natural to the batsman's game. Here Duckett can't hook the ball, so don't ****ing do it. Brook was trying to slog the ball to the on-side and ended up looking like a tail-ender, thankfully he calmed down and we may see a vital innings in the morning, it's already ok in terms of runs.
Look the ODI set-up has worked bloody hard at becoming number 1 in the World with detailed plans, if we want to do the same with Tests we have to work out are plans in the same way. If Pope and Duckett had just kept ducking the ball, then the Oz bowlers would have had to go back to how they were bowling, and in the end as showed at the end, you can't carry on doing that in hot and humid conditions.
Maybe one or two less days on the golf course and more practicing in the nets with an heavy ball bowled at their heads.
Both teams kind of lost it a bit with how they batted. Yes they both got to good scores but could have been in better positions. Firstly like you said with England if they played that hour of short stuff more smarter they could still be like 2 down at stumps with No Lyon bowling the rest the test now they might not get a lead even.I agree with Uppercut that people just forget all the ranting and raving about how bad the batting is before a transformative innings that there was during all of this Bazball era. What I think was frustrating about that period today was how the players didn't seem overtly comfortable with what they're doing or have a great mind-set for it. So we weren't even scoring runs from it.
We watch IPL, and England on good pitches in ODI's and we see the point, the way they go after certain bowlers with certain shots that is natural to the batsman's game. Here Duckett can't hook the ball, so don't ****ing do it. Brook was trying to slog the ball to the on-side and ended up looking like a tail-ender, thankfully he calmed down and we may see a vital innings in the morning, it's already ok in terms of runs.
Look the ODI set-up has worked bloody hard at becoming number 1 in the World with detailed plans, if we want to do the same with Tests we have to work out are plans in the same way. If Pope and Duckett had just kept ducking the ball, then the Oz bowlers would have had to go back to how they were bowling, and in the end as showed at the end, you can't carry on doing that in hot and humid conditions.
Maybe one or two less days on the golf course and more practicing in the nets with an heavy ball bowled at their heads.
I didn’t have a problem with Brook giving himself room to hit down the ground. The risk-reward is pretty good when you know the short ball is coming. He might play and miss a few but there aren’t too many ways to get out.
Green came back with a length ball that he played and missed, and it was probably one too many. But that’s at least forcing the bowler to adjust.
Trying to milk singles kinda plays into Australia’s hands. Repeatedly executing a difficult and physically dangerous shot for one run is what they want. Trying to clear the men in the deep is also insane. I like just getting out of the way a lot and seeing if they can bowl short for as long as you can duck. But if England hate that idea then I prefer trying to punish the lack of mid-on and mid-off to the other options.
Strangely enough I also thought of 1932/33 when at Lord’s today however it was Bradman who I recall reading stepped away to leg and hit to the offside as Brook did today.As pointed out above, at least Brook, whilst looking like a slogger, seemed to be mostly trying to hit the ball where there were no/fewer fielders. Ie. Offside and straight.
(Isn’t that was Fingleton did in 1932/3?)
Yeah this is exactly what happened at the Trent Bridge last year. Henry tried this exact tactic, Bairstow went after it every ball, and he killed a close contest stone dead in about 10 overs.Bairstow wasn't hooking the ball with 3 men out on the boundary waiting for the miscue ball after ball. He played himself in and by and large played proper cricket shots.
It's weird he struggles so much in Tests when in domestics he's often a dodgy starter but his whole thing is he goes huge when set.But if I see Pope give it away in the 40's again I will go ****ing ballistic I swear
the point we're getting at is if you are great at the shot go for it, but Duckett for one looked hopeless at it.Yeah this is exactly what happened at the Trent Bridge last year. Henry tried this exact tactic, Bairstow went after it every ball, and he killed a close contest stone dead in about 10 overs.