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rentaghost said:
That's the issue. All the opposition had to do was bowl a tight fourth stump line and he was a walking wicket. He was dropped because of a clear and obvious technical flaw. I haven't seen much of him since but his ecord since was really poor until last month- if hes worked on his technique successfully in this area then all well and good.
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Well, if he's anything like Ballance he'll listen to the criticism and do sweet fuck all about it and will face the same problems at Headingley

Excerpt from Steve James column in The Times today

It appears it was a close call between Stoneman and Jennings for that first Test because, just before the selectors met for the final time, the head coach Trevor Bayliss had watched Jennings score a fine century in the County Championship against a Nottinghamshire attack including Stuart Broad at Trent Bridge.

Even Broad was impressed apparently (it is in a bowler’s DNA not to praise any batsman) and Bayliss was particularly impressed by the technical changes the left-hander had made over the winter with coaches Andy Flower and Graham Thorpe.

If you wind back to last summer and Jennings’ travails against South Africa you will remember that he had become a sitting duck at the crease, pinned there by some excellent bowling from the likes of Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel, but mostly in defence he was offering a bat that he hoped might be hit by the ball. He was horribly rigid with his head nowhere near being over the ball.

Jennings has worked hard on getting some movement in his backlift, moving his hands back so that he is now hitting the ball as opposed to it hitting the bat. And he has retained his strong back-foot game, being especially strong on the cut — as you would expect from someone brought up in South Africa.

But has he improved enough to succeed in Test cricket? We shall see but I am not convinced that his weight distribution is still quite forward enough for him to be able to defend sufficiently well when put under the most severe pressure.
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