Sri Lanka v England (2nd test) 22nd/26th Jan
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Great fielding mind
King Kareoke
Striker
What an innings and to be fair an excellent bit of fielding
Jack Torrance
Striker
That was his best innings I reckon
Fantastic Root. Absolutely brilliant knock
G
GuestServices
Guest
Class that, fair play to SL. He looked knackered tbf, can’t be too gutted with 186.
Liverpool Beachball
Striker
How good is test cricket though?
King Kareoke
Striker
In that session - you saw how good it can be - great partnership, some good spin bowling, how bad it can be - sorry Woody but it was awful and then how it can kick you in the nads - Root (although brilliant fielding). After that England could still face a tricky 4th innings as well
Paddy O'Dors
Striker
It was gonna take summat special to get Root out and you have to take your hat off to the fielder.
Hopefully last wicket can add a few frustrating runs and/or use a bit of time up tomorrow.
Hopefully last wicket can add a few frustrating runs and/or use a bit of time up tomorrow.
FatDrummer
Winger
Feel really sorry for Root. A superb innings and his tiredness (plus great fielding) did for him just short of reaching stumps.
I know you can never tell, but I think that as long as Leach held his end, he would have made his double century tomorrow and England would be much closer.
Lots of ifs and buts but there you go.
I know you can never tell, but I think that as long as Leach held his end, he would have made his double century tomorrow and England would be much closer.
Lots of ifs and buts but there you go.
TheRey
Winger
Thing with Root is we compare him to Kohli/Smith/Williamson, but they all have accomplished players above them to shield them.
Kohli has Purjara, Smith has Marnus/Warner... Meanwhile, Roots got to work around Sibley and Crawley
poor fucker has to do everything
He has to physically carry our batting, whereas the other three have players who share the load.
His captaincy isnt perfect but is improving, and he's nowhere near as defensive as Kohli. The other three can switch off for a bit knowing their respective top three's are going give them something of a breather, whereas Root has to constantly be ready to go in. Tough gig
Plus he's comfortably our best player of spin. He's absolutely beautiful to watch when he's in
Kohli has Purjara, Smith has Marnus/Warner... Meanwhile, Roots got to work around Sibley and Crawley
poor fucker has to do everythingHe has to physically carry our batting, whereas the other three have players who share the load.
His captaincy isnt perfect but is improving, and he's nowhere near as defensive as Kohli. The other three can switch off for a bit knowing their respective top three's are going give them something of a breather, whereas Root has to constantly be ready to go in. Tough gig
Plus he's comfortably our best player of spin. He's absolutely beautiful to watch when he's in
Jack Torrance
Striker
Thing with Root is we compare him to Kohli/Smith/Williamson, but they all have accomplished players above them to shield them.
Kohli has Purjara, Smith has Marnus/Warner... Meanwhile, Roots got to work around Sibley and Crawley
He has to physically carry our batting, whereas the other three have players who share the load.
His captaincy isnt perfect but is improving, and he's nowhere near as defensive as Kohli. The other three can switch off for a bit knowing their respective top three's are going give them something of a breather, whereas Root has to constantly be ready to go in. Tough gig
Plus he's comfortably our best player of spin. He's absolutely beautiful to watch when he's in
He plays most of his cricket in England as well whereas the others play on flatter wickets most of the time
TheRey
Winger
With the possible exception of the freak Smith (who's a cheating c-unit anyway, I'd have the classy Joe over him every day of the week), the averages of the other two would drop my at least 5 runs if they had to play 70% of their cricket in England. Even Smith's would drop my a couple
A lot is made of his conversion rate and I do think it has been a reasonable concern to mull over but he effortlessly gets to 50 every other innings without much backup, that'll do for me.
Mr Redknapp
Striker
People forgetting about Stokes?Thing with Root is we compare him to Kohli/Smith/Williamson, but they all have accomplished players above them to shield them.
Kohli has Purjara, Smith has Marnus/Warner... Meanwhile, Roots got to work around Sibley and Crawley
He has to physically carry our batting, whereas the other three have players who share the load.
His captaincy isnt perfect but is improving, and he's nowhere near as defensive as Kohli. The other three can switch off for a bit knowing their respective top three's are going give them something of a breather, whereas Root has to constantly be ready to go in. Tough gig
Plus he's comfortably our best player of spin. He's absolutely beautiful to watch when he's in
Slightly selectiveThing with Root is we compare him to Kohli/Smith/Williamson, but they all have accomplished players above them to shield them.
Kohli has Purjara, Smith has Marnus/Warner... Meanwhile, Roots got to work around Sibley and Crawley
He has to physically carry our batting, whereas the other three have players who share the load.
His captaincy isnt perfect but is improving, and he's nowhere near as defensive as Kohli. The other three can switch off for a bit knowing their respective top three's are going give them something of a breather, whereas Root has to constantly be ready to go in. Tough gig
Plus he's comfortably our best player of spin. He's absolutely beautiful to watch when he's in
Williamson bats 3, without a second opener of note after Latham
Labuschange has only been around a year or so
Root was partially “protected” by Cook for a long time. And then Denly was a blocking 3
