This is nonsense though (what Pope is saying). Every test batsman in history will tell you you can’t drive on the up outside off stump in Australia.
Pope, Root, Stokes, Crawley, Brook go out and drive outside off stump and gets out cheaply.
If one of the Eng batsmen had hit them all over the place driving outside offstump, Australia would have carried on bowling the same line and length because 100 years of history tells you it’ll get wickets eventually.
If they actually wanted Australia to change the way they were bowling, they’d have left every ball outside off stump until the Aussies got tired or started bowling at the stumps to try and get wickets, at which point you can hit them around. It takes about 30 overs.
Head left everything you should leave until England got tired and started bowling crap bouncers so he could hit them about.
This is the problem with Brook and Stokes, a week after the game they’ll give you a nice explanation of why they were right to throw away their wicket, but it doesn't change the fact they threw away their wickets. Last test 9 wickets in a session. Last India test 7 wickets lost for 50-odd runs, Lords India test 5 wickets for 40 runs.
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