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Where were the bouncers ?


gattaca

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Ishant tried a few bouncers near the end ...2 were quite good and one of them almost got a wicket.

 

Bhuvi tried a couple but both were loopy ones and  both were declared wides.

 

Shami has been our best pacer in this series  in terms of bowling good bouncers and getting quite a few deliveries to climb up sharply from just short of good length...but he did not go for bounce as much as he did in the first two tests.  

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Yeah they went to the short stuff a bit late in the day - only the last couple of overs.  Probably because when Shami tried a few short ones early on, Leon Johnson put him away with absolute ease.  Not the same story at the other end, so yeah, missed a trick there.  Especially with Baby Bravo.  First ball to him was a kachra loosener on the pads, glanced for 4. FGaandu Ishant.   

 

First hour today will decide our fate today.  We need a couple of wickets early if we are going to get anywhere in this match.  

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28 minutes ago, gattaca said:

This is the learning I feel our bowlers lack. No thinking whatsoever just go and bowl like donkey no brains. They should be watching the match and see what is going on. 

That's a bit harsh.  They were really not that bad yesterday.  Apart from maybe trying the short ball stuff at the other end, which backfired early on against Johnson, they were on point.  Ishant gave 2 bad balls that went for 4 and bowled 2 other bad balls down leg that went for 4 byes twice - those were on the 'keeper, they were stoppable.  Other than that, I can't think of any freebies given, at all.  Even Ishant was comfortably the 3rd best seamer on show, changed his angles around and beat the bat a few times.  

 

And keep in mind, with the hot sun baking down, the track was pretty unhelpful too.  Hopefully, there's a bit of moisture early on, and they come out all guns blazing and pick up a few wickets early today.  

 

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