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Not hooping, but enough swing and movement off the pitch, got to make the most of this new ball, early. Not dropping catches always helps.
 

Arnoldtoo

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Very quiet in here when England bowl well :cautious:

Apart from 2 spilled in the slips it was a good, if fragmented day. Not much to complain about apart from the weather.

Can't fault the selection as Anderson got a couple and Curran chipped in and was frugal. Buttler hasn't dropped anyone or missed a stumping. Rotation of bowlers worked. What's not to like?

No doubt some A&C on a Pakistani website is berating Azhar's decision to bat!
 
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Dependent on the over head this morning it should still do something off the pitch after the amount of rain they had down there. Should be another result as long as the weather doesn't get involved - can't tell about spin yet, thought there was a period just before lunch where if you apply yourself there were runs there.

Catches win matches btw.
 

UncleBuck

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Root needs some bedtime reading material and serious guidance from his bowlers with regard to the field placements, it’s been a bugbear of mine for ages and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better.
 

Arnoldtoo

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Root needs some bedtime reading material and serious guidance from his bowlers with regard to the field placements, it’s been a bugbear of mine for ages and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better.

I'd expect Broad and Anderson to be helping; do they not do so?
 

southlondonyiddo

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I'd expect Broad and Anderson to be helping; do they not do so?

That’s the problem. They 'help' too much. The grunts need to be told where and how to bowl and to a plan

The captain needs to assess the situation and reading of the game and apply his tactics accordingly

Obviously no captain always gets it right or has the rub of the green but the good ones get a huge amount more right than wrong even if the outcome doesn’t always end up in the positive

Root imo gets 60+ % of his on field tactics wrong. His decisions are ordinary, at best
 

Arnoldtoo

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That’s the problem. They 'help' too much. The grunts need to be told where and how to bowl and to a plan

The captain needs to assess the situation and reading of the game and apply his tactics accordingly

Obviously no captain always gets it right or has the rub of the green but the good ones get a huge amount more right than wrong even if the outcome doesn’t always end up in the positive

Root imo gets 60+ % of his on field tactics wrong. His decisions are ordinary, at best

I appreciate that there may be things a captain wants that a bowler might not fancy for fear of leaking runs, but with 300 Tests and 1100 wickets between them, Anderson and Broad are grunts who need to be told what to do?
 

Spurs_Bear

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If someone is bowling with the 2nd new ball and it's doing allsorts, there is no way anyone worth their salt wants 6 fielders on the boundary to the number 7 bat playing his 8th test match. It was shameful field placings, and it's always the same against the tail, when a "batsman" is in our tactics are embarrassing, and the buck stops with Root there. It's a disgrace.
 

southlondonyiddo

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I appreciate that there may be things a captain wants that a bowler might not fancy for fear of leaking runs, but with 300 Tests and 1100 wickets between them, Anderson and Broad are grunts who need to be told what to do?

Yes. They need to be told what to do
 

southlondonyiddo

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Big trouble for our batting today!

The wicket looks bloody lively and the ball is moving around like a motherfucker
 
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