ganeshran Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Stokes is key here. Root fails to convert yet again Link to comment
ssurenn Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 Stokes smashes Keshav into the stands. Link to comment
Stan AF Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Stokes throws away his wicket. Link to comment
Real McCoy Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Stokes chokes express bowling 1 Link to comment
putrevus Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Butler has to play fearless cricket to succeed in tests.Good start for him can he sustain. Link to comment
Stan AF Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 England need to get to 300 somehow so that their bowlers can have something to bowl at. Link to comment
Cricwala Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 This Pretorious guy is trundling at 120-125 but keeping it tight bowling around off. SA is still playing him as all rounder at 7. This forum would hv been all over him castigating for lack of speed if he was an Indian. In thirst for speed, which we have lacked for so long, we hv gone to other extreme and now condemn decent cricketers who bowl military medium as 2nd skill - along with Pandya, guys like Vijay Shankar, Dube have a role to play in international cricket. Maybe Pandya needs to focus on bowling ~ 133 but with better control instead of aiming for 140 and getting injured so often. Link to comment
Cricwala Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Real McCoy said: England crumbling again like usual. They have one gun player in Stokes. Root scores in meaningless dead rubbers and others are missing in action. They lost to NZ ffs. SA may not have the talent as before but are mentally equipped to beat the poms Shows why our 4-1 loss to them was such a shambolic performance. Link to comment
Stan AF Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 butler gone...got himself to an awkward position and nicked it successfully. Link to comment
ganeshran Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Buttler scored runs but he never looked comfortable. He is lucky to have scored even 29 Stan AF 1 Link to comment
ganeshran Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Karan Arjun will face the new ball soon.. lets see if he can last Link to comment
putrevus Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 (edited) England with their make shift batting lineup is doing better than what Indians did in SA and people expected miracles with that line up. Edited January 3, 2020 by putrevus Link to comment
Stan AF Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 India tormentor karan goes again cheaply. Link to comment
Cricwala Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Butler flops again - another guy who makes merry against India but is mediocre otherwise. He averages 44 against us, 33 overall. Same for Curran - 39 against us, 29 overall. I put this down to inability to work players out, put plans in place...we rely too much on just on-field thinking and rote tactics. Curran and butler provided the lower order edge which cost us series, Bumrah was back by 3rd test and we had best attack - Bumrah, Shami, Ishant - for last 3 tests, yet lost 2-1. This pattern will keep repeating unless we get better backroom staff. Our current bowling is good, yet it's not mcgrath-Warne or walsh-ambrose level that captain can just throw ball and they will run through good teams. They need to be backed by thoughtful coaching, plans and smart captaincy. I can see santner, Watling, Wagner etc frustrate us similarly in NZ tour. Suhaan and Jimmy Cliff 2 Link to comment
ganeshran Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Didnt even last till the new ball Link to comment
Stan AF Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, Cricwala said: smart captaincy. 2020 will be the make or break year for Kohli in captaincy. Both LOI's & Tests. Too many important tours and wc coming up. Suhaan 1 Link to comment
Ajju Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 V philander Unsung hero of SA Link to comment
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