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Brook what have you done!? world of cricket now knows bounce you and you more than likely get out because you go for it all the time!


Australia will make mince meat of us if we going to keep going for the pull shots..
 
trueblue1972 said:
We can criticise the shots that some have got out to , but i don't think anyone thought we would get parity , and we may well do that , I'll take it
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Take it? I'll do more than take it.
Two points when I was frankly shivering: when the Indian batsmen knocked off those three centuries, I thought, “This is a cool 650, no sweat”. That we firstly got them out for not far short of two hundred less than that is something like a miracle.
Then when Crawley went really quickly, second shivering spell. I thought, “Oh shit, here we go. All out for about 120, follow on enforced, maybe”.
This has been a magnificent rearguard action, twice over, the more so in that some of the really senior players like Stokes and Root haven't really stepped up.
Match on!

Edit: I'm talking about Stokes at the crease, of course.
 
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Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Take it? I'll do more than take it.
Two points when I was frankly shivering: when the Indian batsmen knocked off those three centuries, I thought, “This is a cool 650, no sweat”. That we firstly got them out for not far short of two hundred less than that is something like a miracle.
Then when Crawley went really quickly, second shivering spell. I thought, “Oh shit, here we go. All out for about 120, follow on enforced, maybe”.
This has been a magnificent rearguard action, the more so in that some of the really senior players like Stokes and Root haven't really stepped up.
Match on!
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Spot on. I can’t believe some of the stuff I'm reading on here.
 
The relay catch to dismiss Smith would be given not out under the proposed new rules, where BOTH fielders need to be on the field at the moment of the catch.
 
trueblue1972 said:
We can criticise the shots that some have got out to , but i don't think anyone thought we would get parity , and we may well do that , I'll take it
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Correct. That awful, boring team before bazball arrived would have been 168 all off 110 overs. I don’t see a reasonable argument to say this approach doesn’t work. Yes there will be plenty of mistakes, but the pros far outweigh the cons. It’s brilliant to watch.
 
jimharri said:
Spot on. I can’t believe some of the stuff I'm reading on here.
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They’re from boring gits who know nothing about modern cricket who are just missing the match day thread. I went from watching every day of every test match, to not watching at all under the previous regime. Cricket has been a massive part of my life for over 45 years - including being a job for a while - but the test game was dying and was too sad to watch. What MaCullum and Stokes have done is truly remarkable and has saved the game
 
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