Also given the weather forecast for Days 4 and 5.
How do you rate his glove work? I Haven't really seen enough of him to judge but from the little I have he looks very tidy.
Very good, maybe struggles with Maharaj sometimes. He did a lot of work with Boucher early when getting into the international setup and he improved a great deal.
Not sure how many times this has to be repeated but beating an edge from back of a length is really nothing to do with luck. Good Test batters are not going to consistently nick stuff they aren't dragged forward to.
But even when he does bowl full/good lengths it seems to miss the bat a lot... I know his natural length is back-off, but this morning he has gone past the bat a number of times with full length.
Yeah, but whilst that may be 'unlucky' on a ball to ball basis over a long Test career it isn't luck is it? No one is unlucky for 77 Tests, not that he's had a bad career he is a good bowler but at some point he is who is average/SR says he is - much like Broad, Flintoff et al.
Oh I agree, particularly early career he did not pitch it up enough....
He's going to get eaten alive in Australia with this kind of play.