unless cook quits, he will stay as captain at least til the end of series.
no bad bot scotty has no chance, under the current management and cook will be retained at least until the end of the summer.
i called for it pre season. buttler was in form and had a point to prove after his mankadding. only for cook saying he was not ready for tests. so we have an unfit keeper, low on confidence, dropping dollies and getting out to ridiculously poor shots
your short pitched leg theory won again today
morgan has an ecb central contract which covers tests. he blew the ipl out this year, so from that, you could assume, he had a chance at test level.
It's a good ploy when used correctly. On the first day of a green seamer is a case of when it isn't used correctly! They shouldn't have scored 200 first dig. That's where the test was lost.
Morgans last 6 FC knocks are 191,20,27,81*,12,62. A century and two half centuries in last 3 games. That's not a man who's finished with longer form of game mind.
agreed. its got to be coming from the management this short ball rubbish. would be acceptable if the actually placed the field correctly. no third man kills me. miss hit shots going for fours. the first place i would have a fielder and if we had at least 50 runs would have been saved this test.
I never felt the need to bowl with a fine leg. If getting hit there too often you're bowling poor and need hauling off. Indians got a lot of nicks but play a lot quite late with soft hands and deliberately guide it down to third man. Crazy how many runs we leaked down there.
Don't rate him. I know he got more runs than Cook this summer but 26 tons and 8000 runs says hel come good again.
it happened throughout the sri lanka series. surely moores, saker, farbrace and cook are aware that at least 25% of runs are through that area? they have analysis on everything and the placement of a third man, intead of a fine leg, which is for off line and rubbish bowling, is the correct place for someone to field. the slips often dive half hearted and the ball goes through for four. all this woulkd be cut to one
