This I agree with. I thought England's bowlers as a unit first innings were excellent. And I think we need to keep Wood fit for this series. He's the second most important bowler after Anderson now, I think.
They weren't doing that because of the pitch but because of the team spirit - the holdover form NZ - let confident teams play aggressively and if they fail let them make their own changes.
Yes, you may be right. I hope so. But Bell in particular doesn't have to, and shouldn't, play that way. He's actually better than that. When he gets in, he should be thinking of setting himself for a big score.
Get better ffs. Don't you know the Ashes are on.My husband was taken to hospital yesterday so I have missed last 2 days play.
I hope he's on the mend but I doubt I'll have much time to catch up - fingers crossed though
That's a rubbish excuse. Roger Federer is interested in cricket and he's Swiss.Yeah, that's just what I was thinking.
Of course he uses being a Scot as an limp excuse for not being interested in cricket
Proud not to knowI think people who aren't interested probably don't want to admit that they don't understand the scoring system - I say this because I can remember a time (about 40 years ago) when I didn't know what 148 for 3 meant
But I learnt
This is absolutely correct, there aren't many players I want to utterly fail every game but he's one. Just a huge, huge dick.
Cook's the one that I think someone needs to have a word with, two sloppy dismissals from playing in a way which isn't really his natural game. And he seemed to be looking in good form too. That said still a good performance overall, bowling especially.
Stokes has a tic of dragging his bat across the crease after every ball, a tiny little thing he feels he has to do - lyon and warner were running up to him and literally standing up to him blocking him from moving until the bowler was ready so he couldn't do his routine. I mean 5 cms away from him. Like some arsehole blocking the door to the toilets in the walkabout.
