Ah Duckett unlucky 98 is a decent knock though only what 13 runs short of Smith
How long can they keep this short ball stuff up?
How long can they keep this short ball stuff up?
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Feck sake. I want us to spend a full week just ducking under balls before the Headingly test
From everything Stokes has said, it’s about having a positive mindset and taking away the pressure to allow them to perform. No one has said we have to be slogging shots over fielders at all times regardless of the situation.
Clearly didn’t fancy his century because he’s just out there having a hit.
Not unlucky - plain stupid. Rimaldo is absolutely bang on - we are just trying to show Australia that we can still do Bazball even when they have fielders on every boundary.
One will be on the honours board, the other won't.
Another wicket just given away.
Duckett massively exceeded my expectations. But yeah, silly shot.
You'd also think that having that century in the books would have been huge for Duckett mentally
When the top 3 are all scoring before we get to Root I don't think we can complain too much when they get out to a dodgy shot. That's an improvement on most of the last decade.
Could be a wicket or a 6 off any ball here.
Exactly you'd think we only had 50/3 not 200+
Put the macho Bazball bullshit away and leave the fecking ball.
Just gifting them wickets... No Lyon, just let them Traveller themselves out. Factoring in as well, still 200 behind and a longer tail.
Just gifting them wickets... No Lyon, just let them Traveller themselves out. Factoring in as well, still 200 behind and a longer tail.
The macho Bazball madness got us here. You can't do it at 75%. It's all in and that means pulling your hair out as supporters.
This is a horrible watch but it's hilarious.
Don't think anyones saying we're not doing very well in general... Just frustrating when you see a lad on 98 get out to the exact same thing he saw his team mate get out too literally a few balls earlier.
Yeah all Duckett had to do was nudge two singles
This like Pep pushing all his players up to the halfway line against Ole. The only way we can possibly give away a wicket is by doing exactly what they want. “We’re gonna do it anyway”.
wtf is going on 
Why are they playing at these short balls it’s mindless
Smith is a cheat but that's out
From the side on that doesn't look out at all
Correctly given for me,
That is really poor. We had enough warnings and he’s just done exactly the same thing to the same area again.
We’re letting them get back in out of nowhere.
We’re letting them get back in out of nowhere.
I feel sick we keep falling for it
They'll keep doing it until we stop playing them
Why do we keep falling into the trap
Need a big score from one of these three or the ashes are disappearing. All that hard work to get back in the game.
Why on earth do we keep playing them,this never works when we try this tactic
Bazball
England set to be a 100 behind at this point
If we actually manage to calm down a bit, I can see us getting to within 50.
We were playing so sensibly until they started with the short ball. Why they then felt the need to start taking absolutely everything on is beyond me. There’s playing Bazball and then there’s just being absolutely stupid.
Anyone know what the run rate has been since Pope’s wicket? Have we even hit any boundaries off pull shots to justify these wickets?
Fecking moronic batting, throwing the advantage away.
If a team is a bowler down and going short ball theory surely you just let them tire themselves out and then punish them later, not all the dominance has to be immediate.
It’s so fecking stupid, more risk for scant reward, just tore the bowlers out.
About 4 an over. They're winning the tactical battle for now. If you cancall the England approach tactical
The daft thing is I remember Bairstow playing out a passage of play against India last year so England clearly have the ability to read the game but Australia seem to bring out all the ego in them .
.Brook wasn’t making hundreds playing shots like that previously. You can call it Bazball all you want, but there is a difference between how they’re playing now and in those earlier tests under Stokes.
About 4 an over. They're winning the tactical battle for now. If you cancall the England approach tactical
We could score at that rate knocking a single down to fine/square leg four times an over.
You’d have thought Joe Root of all people would have twigged this, he’s even more aggressive in tests now than ODI’s.