We've gone the other way now and we're too aggressive at the top of the order. Moeen Ali is a good player and I rate him highly, but he's taking too many risks. He needs to be more calculated and he's certainly capable of that.
This is what I mean though, he needs to learn to pick his shots even when the bowling gets a lot more aggressive and especially if wickets fall at the other end.
Quote from: paul_e on February 22, 2015, 11:06:29 PMThis is what I mean though, he needs to learn to pick his shots even when the bowling gets a lot more aggressive and especially if wickets fall at the other end.The standard of bowling has to be taken into account Paul. The commentators were saying that train of thought is that Moeen is particularly vulnerable to full pitched bowling after a short ball.Don't really understand the logic of Ballance coming in at three when we're 174-1 after 30 overs against Scotland.