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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #13860 on: Today at 11:22:51 AM »
Embarrassing, no other word for it. They have embarrassed themselves. They look mentally gone after 5 days of cricket.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #13861 on: Today at 11:48:29 AM »
So many have had terrible games. Smith is a real worry too, he looks gone

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #13862 on: Today at 12:18:01 PM »
Englands batting is pure shit and their philosophy on how to play test match cricket. It's lazy, just throw the bat at everything, requires no thinking or planning or management.

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« Reply #13863 on: Today at 12:31:37 PM »
Englands batting is pure shit and their philosophy on how to play test match cricket. It's lazy, just throw the bat at everything, requires no thinking or planning or management.

I think England need to play positively. They tried the negative attritional approach in 2017 and 2021 tours to Australia and they got smashed anyway.

The problem is that they can't (more likely won't) adapt to conditions or match circumstance. How many players have got out driving at balls on the up this series? It's a shot that everyone knows you just don't play in Australia, yet they keep doing it.

Also the bowling and tactics on the field. All day yesterday exploring the middle of the pitch giving Australia runs. Its arrogance. Its the whole "we are the saviours of test cricket" bollocks that they think they are. They got away with it for a year and a half when it took teams by surprise, but for a long time now its been dross.

 


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