[First Test] England v West Indies - Southampton



Not going to criticise a bowler coming in and messing up when its the batsman above who should be doing their jobs. Agree he is better than that but Archer and Wood should not be trying to save us here!!

Bowlers coming in always have the potential to do something like that. Its not great but its not what he is paid for. Target the likes of Burns, Denly, Sibley or Stokes for not going big.
 
Think we are short unfortunately. Both in time and runs, another 30-40 minutes out of the game and another 30 runs might have made it interesting.
 
Well after Holder let us back in the game as windies should have had at least 150 lead.

That batting performance after all our top 5 getting starts isn't good enough.

Covid ain't an excuse once your set.
 
Just saying if one of them had gone big we wouldn't be getting twitchy about our lower order not getting runs. Lower order runs should be a bonus not a necessity!
Mate wood mad a bad decision doesn’t matter where you bat you shouldn’t do that It was A stupid shot by no means am I saying we are relying on wood Archer etc and the earlier batsmen get criticism when due but he should have been blocking you don’t need both your lower order batsmen playing shots.
 

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