2nd test Old Trafford

[dixonsafc]

Ben Stokes on to bowl bouncers at tailenders again…

 

[Steak Pie]

Going to be good batting for the rest of the day, get these early and we could have nice session this afternoon.

Get to 75-2 would be a superb day.

 

[Ghfd]

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No slips

 

[Ghfd]

Four slips and a gully to their captain

Two slips to number 10 and he edges through fourth to third man for 4

 

[dixonsafc]

Four slips and a gully to their captain

Two slips to number 10 and he edges through fourth to third man for 4

It’s madness.

I’m sure some data nerd in the England camp is telling them this is the right way to bowl at the tail, but it looks bollocks to me.

 

[Ghfd]

It’s madness.

I’m sure some data nerd in the England camp is telling them this is the right way to bowl at the tail, but it looks bollocks to me.

Rabada backing away time and again

His stumps all in view no Yorkers
.

Four more to third man, wide of the two slips

Not an edge but a fourth slip would have stopped that

 

[EchoMan]

Four slips and a gully to their captain

Two slips to number 10 and he edges through fourth to third man for 4

They need to get a grip or SA will get to a respectable score

 

[Sea to Shining Sea]

I agree. How many great opening batsmen in history have been stroke players.

I’ll offer up Warner, Sehwag, Slater, Trescothick….struggling now

Hayden and Slater.

 

[dixonsafc]

Not sure Leach is the right option either.

At least he can’t bowl bouncers mind. Well you’d hope not.

 

[Ghfd]

Bairstow is a good fielder out there in the deep

These get close to 200 here and it takes a bit out of the day and lifts them

Still would have took that bowling first

 

[TheRey]

Bairstow is a good fielder out there in the deep

These get close to 200 here and it takes a bit out of the day and lifts them

Still would have took that bowling first

Letting them right off the hook with these tactics. Again.

 

[Ghfd]

Letting them right off the hook with these tactics. Again.

I’m mentally switching off here. It’s crying out for a Yorker

 

[dixonsafc]

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Surely this is proof that we need a rethink of the tactics to the tail?

 

[Ghfd]

Possible drop by pope? No short

A touch deep?

Big edge as well

 

[Sea to Shining Sea]

Nearly 14 overs at 9 and 10. I bet more than half of the balls they’ve faced wouldn’t have hit the stumps

 

[Ghfd]

Top partnership of the innings between 9 and 10

O Yorkers bowled, two slips maximum, short leg about 3 foot to far away

142 for 8

England on top but this will help the saffers confidence

 

[TheRey]

Piss poor, this.

 

[Pete]

They miss, you hit - that's the way to bowl at tail enders....

 

[TheRey]

Top partnership of the innings between 9 and 10

O Yorkers bowled, two slips maximum, short leg about 3 foot to far away

142 for 8

England on top but this will help the saffers confidence

Then they'll bowl full and straight, and we'll collapse to 120 all out.

 

[Ghfd]

No slips now to Rabada.

Is he Brian Lara with 160 odd on the board ?

Then they'll bowl full and straight, and we'll collapse to 120 all out.

We’ve been here all summer and I will never understand the theory of four slips at the top batsmen and at the most two when 9, 10, Jack are at the crease

All the wickets taken are off balls pitched up. Wk, slips and lbws, taken

the last wickets , we seem to want to take, on the edge of the boundary