The Ashes
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Fairly evenly poised, though you'd still have England in front given we have to bat 4th and the pitch is already playing a few tricks.
The value of tail-end runs is reinforced time and time again. At 4/360, England should have put the game away and made 450+. Instead they crumbled and left the door open.
Warner looks a bit out of sorts, too. Big pressure on Smith to make runs here, though he looks well up for it.
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@barbarian said in The Ashes:
Fairly evenly poised, though you'd still have England in front given we have to bat 4th and the pitch is already playing a few tricks.
The value of tail-end runs is reinforced time and time again. At 4/360, England should have put the game away and made 450+. Instead they crumbled and left the door open.
Warner looks a bit out of sorts, too. Big pressure on Smith to make runs here, though he looks well up for it.
With all due respect to KW, Kohli and Root the angry lesbo is surely far and away the best batsman on earth right now.
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@barbarian Smith is looking pretty set now. Hope Eng change up their bowling. Trying to contain with everyone aside from Anderson . But they are leaking plenty.
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@nta Nah that's not the point I was thinking of.
But I understand how it could be construed as such
As I said, I understand short bowling, I still play and face it and recommend it. My national team has been doing it for a while now
More the hullabaloo at the time and the sentiments and hand wringing from the cricket world - led by Australians I'll add, that we can't let that happen and the tragedy.
2-3 seasons later and a different perspective (often from the same people) dims the emotions and sensibilities.
The game is set up to encourage short bowling to tail enders when the pitches are so laterally dire and it won't change - a bit like 5m lineout drives as a tactic to win.
They're both inherently ugly, yet totally plausible
However I do think with a new generation of players who have never batted without a helmet might negate the effectiveness of the
lineout maulbouncers to shit batsmen. I expect all cricketers from the compulsory helmet generation to play short stuff better -
Smith is an absolute freak. Right now he's seperated himself from the "chosen 4". Root, Kane and Kohli have some work to do to try & match his exploits.
Well, Root and Kohli do. Kane can't as we have no fucking tests scheduled.
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