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tom_avfc

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  1. The only way to score runs seems to be to do it quickly. Marsh, Stokes, Wood and Crawley scoring at good rates. Difficult pitch to bat time on by the look of it.
  2. You could see it hit the glove and they’ve just confirmed that ultra edge isn’t working. I can understand the fans in the ground being angry about it as they’re probably unaware but not sure how anybody watching that on tv can question that decision.
  3. Laurel and Hardy? Duckett has an average of 48 and made 98 and 83 in the previous test match. Completely agree that Brook shouldn’t be at 3. Probably should have moved Root up a place but he doesn’t seem to want to bat at 3. We’re hardly blessed with options if you’re after that sort of batsman though.
  4. He hardly played a shot and that’s not his game. Never looked comfortable. He’s had a great start to his career lower down the order. I wouldn’t be dropping him due to struggling to play the new ball that’s swinging everywhere against the best bowling attack in cricket. As soon as he gets back down the order I don’t doubt that he’ll get back into the form he showed early on given time.
  5. Tricky pitch to score runs on, particularly against this Australia attack. Mitch Marsh might have shown the way forwards for England here. Take your chance and get a bit of luck seems to be the way to go. Scratching around for a bit seems like there’s always going to be a ball with your name on it and you’ll not score many. In reality this kind of pitch is exactly what Australia want and they’re better than us at exploiting it and taking their chances.
  6. I’m not sure it is dumb from Bairstow. I reckon there’s be hundreds of examples from that one test match of the ball carrying through to the keeper and then the batsman pretty quickly wandering down the wicket for a chat and a prod at the ground. It happens in every match. Notice how ridiculous it looked when Broad was exaggerating holding his bat in at the end of the over. That’s because it’s never normally necessary to do that. It becomes a pretty petty game if the wicket keepers decide they’re just going to throw down the stumps every ball on the off chance that a batsman has moved slightly to soon between balls. If he’s stealing yards looking for a run then it’s fair game and a bit stupid from Bairstow. As it is Bairstow isn’t trying to seek any advantage and it’s a ridiculous wicket to claim and celebrate in the way that Australia did.
  7. He saw a ball that was there to hook and thought “why not?” If it had sailed into the stands nobody would be calling it the wrong choice. With 70 to get he had to back himself to score runs if the ball was there to hit.
  8. Yeah the bowling has been more of an issue all series. If you put a team in to bat you can’t really afford for them to score 400+.
  9. It’s a bit different playing support to Ben Stokes than it is to Stuart Broad. Robinson has shown he can score a few when throwing the bat at it so can’t really fault him for having a go. Good catch by smith to be fair.
  10. It’s going to take them the rest of the day to get 400 ahead at this rate. Takes some time out of the game that England need to bat I guess. Not sure I’d fancy us to bat out a day for a draw though given how we dealt with the short ball in the first innings.
  11. Yeah tricky to know what to do when a few are keeping low and a few kicking up. Australia being a bit more patient than England were but not sure it’s working any better really.
  12. “Play the short ball like Australia” they said. Maybe we should have gone straight to the same tactic that worked against us.
  13. I think this might be the worst suggestion of a transfer target I’ve ever seen on here. This can’t be a serious suggestion.
  14. Duckett scored 98 runs playing in an aggressive way. Harry Brook has come out and played the short ball in exactly the same manner that the players who got out did so it’s clearly our plan to counter it by being that aggressive. Yes they could rein it in a bit but if that leads to them batting twice as long for the same amount of runs before getting out then it doesn’t really help. This is how England are going to play because under this leadership that’s how they think they’ll win matches. They’re training to play like this, they’re confident playing like this and at the moment they’re scoring a lot of runs and winning more than they lose playing like this. We put ourselves in a strong position to win the first test but fell just short. I’m not sure there’s any need for a massive overhaul of how we bat on the back of almost 700 runs scored in the first test and 270-4 here.
  15. Bairstow who scored over 1,000 runs at an average of over 66 in 2022 and currently has 98 runs from the first test in this series. This is up there with the most reactionary topics on here. We score a few runs and everything is fine then we lose a wicket or 2 and everyone is crap (even those who haven’t even come out to bat yet). This test match is very much in the balance and we’ll risk a loss going for the win. They’ve openly said that’s how they’re going to play so it’s hardly a surprise we haven’t suddenly reverted to a slow test match style of batting on a day that looks pretty good for batting.
  16. It was a pretty good 98 to be fair. The hook shot has got him a lot of runs but he always risked that dismissal. Good innings for a guy who apparently can only play spin and he’s set us up well.
  17. Yeah I guess batting deeper allows the batsmen to play with a bit more freedom and attacking intent too. You can afford for Duckett, Pope, Brook and Stokes not to make 50 in the first innings here because Crawley, Root and Bairstow all did. If you start removing batsmen then we may lose some of the “Bazball” intent. Its impossible to say even in hindsight whether it’s the right decision. If Foakes comes in at 176-5 and we don’t get the 100 run partnership that Bairstow was there for we could have been all out for around the 250- 275mark. There’s too many variables to really know whether it’s for the best but I think the way we’re looking to play favours batting as deep as we can.
  18. Bairstow has won us far more matches with his aggressive lower middle order batting than he’s lost us with his keeping under Stokes and McCullum. He’s been guaranteed runs down there as his average will show.
  19. I’m not sure that Wood offers much on a pitch like this. The pace is negated by the pitch and he just ends up bowling himself into the ground. There’ll be far better pitches for Wood later on in the series. Two spinners would have been nice but the fact that we’ve had to recall Moeen Ali 2 years since his last test shows the state of English spin bowlers. Im not sure that Dawson, Parkinson etc. have much of an impact on this game.
  20. It’s a dreadful pitch to bowl pace on. Cummins went wicketless at over 4 an over. Hazelwood went at 4 an over for his 2 wickets. Boland went at over 6 an over. Australia batting sensibly aren’t going to offer many chances on this. An actual frontline spinner would have been useful for England but we don’t really produce those at the moment.
  21. Bairstow had an average of 66 from 19 innings last year and scored 78 in the first innings here. Given that foakes averages 32 I don’t think it’s wild to assume Bairstow would score far more runs over a 5 test series. It then becomes a question as to which batsman you drop to bring in Foakes and I don’t think there’s an obvious choice there either really. You’d have said Crawley before this game but he batted nicely. Duckett was in great form going into this series but looked poor first innings. If you drop an opener I don’t think there’s an obvious choice to move up to open either. I don’t expect them to bring Foakes in. Bairstow took a great catch to get rid of Labuschagne and generally has been a serviceable wicket keeper albeit not top class like Foakes. I think Bazball values the fast runs that the likes of Crawley, Duckett and Bairstow can make more than the couple of missed opportunities.
  22. It’s Pep’s new thing so everyone raves about it. He’s ok there and it’s a good move by Pep. Not sure it works in the long term and they’d certainly want an upgrade on stones if that’s a role they want to keep going forwards.
  23. Getting bowled out for 172 on a pitch that England then scored 524-4 at better than a run a ball suggests that their batting isn’t particularly great. If anything the fact that the Irish 7th wicket partnership is now at over 100 shows how easy it is to score on this pitch.
  24. Jude Bellingham is worth £120m plus. I’m not sure you’re making a like for like comparison.
  25. Other than Forest beating Brighton three days ago you mean? Brighton were always likely to beat wolves. If you’re competing for European football you’re going to be competing against teams that win more often than not. Just have to keep getting results ourselves.
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