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matticus
Guru
Root + Bairstow cruising now - I did not predict this 2 days ago!
Only concern is that Jonny is on track to leave Root stranded on 90-ish ...
Only concern is that Jonny is on track to leave Root stranded on 90-ish ...
Root + Bairstow cruising now - I did not predict this 2 days ago!
Only concern is that Jonny is on track to leave Root stranded on 90-ish ...
dont think root will get 90+ now with 16 left to win
matticus
Guru
Bairstow has made us both look like very slow typists!
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Played England! Great series 
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Wins by 5 wickets, 5 wickets and 7 wickets make it look like it was easy. But given the totals NZ were setting, it was anything but.
3 of England's top 12 run chases ever.
All three matches were much closer than the final winning margins suggest.
3 of England's top 12 run chases ever.
All three matches were much closer than the final winning margins suggest.
matticus
Guru
... and their run-rate was nearly twice that of NZ. (who are reigning Test World Champions) Amazing!
(unusual to win 3 on the trot batting 2nd - where are the stats on that??)
(unusual to win 3 on the trot batting 2nd - where are the stats on that??)
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Absolutely, we still have a shaky top 3, although I think Ollie Pope might just get there, and Stokes lunatic approach to charging down the wicket worries me, Root and Bairstow have a much more sound approach to batting aggressively, the former doing as he has always done, playing proper shots but always rotating the strike, finding gaps and punishing bad balls and YJB is in just irrepressible form and treating it like a one day innings.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
I think the whole England team were treating the second (fourth) innings of each match like a one-day innings.
newts
Veteran
- Location
- Isca Dumnoniorum
It was quite surreal to get 3 consecutive tests where the batters in the 4th innings made it look so easy knocking off towards 300 runs. Englands game management couldn't have work any better, upping the run rate in their 1rst innings & then attacking bowling in the middle days of the tests.
I think Bairstow benefits from the clarity Stokes and BM have brought to his role in the team. He has a great eye and will come off more than he fails, although he will fail. Lees is trying to be Hayden and it will be interesting whether he can do it or not. Stokes was a disappointment, he is a far better batsman than he showed in this series.
matticus
Guru
And the India Test is under way!
I'd forgotten that the last test in 2021 was abandoned with COVID :-/ . I just have happy memories of watching them play at Lords, England's last win before the NZ series!
I'd forgotten that the last test in 2021 was abandoned with COVID :-/ . I just have happy memories of watching them play at Lords, England's last win before the NZ series!
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
And Anderson is back to take the 2 Indian openers. 50 - 2.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
India look to be setting a hefty total. Hopefully our top order will fire and we won't be relying on Bairstow again. Not that I don't think he's capable, he is, but it shouldn't be like that.
deptfordmarmoset
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NZ, England and Indian openers have all been unsuccessful so far and the bulk of the runs have all come with middle order batsmen, while the bowlers complain about the soft and misshapen ball. It's looking like that is flavour of the season.
Root should have been bowling far earlier to the left handers instead of consigning Leach to confidence-destroying defensive bowling, I reckon. Root's ball to dismiss Pant was pure attacking spin bowling; slow, looped flight that turned and left Pant. The slow ball was in response to having been hit for 6 the previous ball.
