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Hope to see SA put up a better fight this test
SA 1/75 in their 2nd innings after rolling England for 205. Lead for SA is 205.
Why the f**k do England keep picking Ballance?
I came in here to say this exact thing.Gee the Pommy top order is rubbish bar Cook and Root.
They are going to be packed raped this summer if we ever sort the pay dispute out.
100%.All the praise that Stokes and Moeen are getting for their batting illustrates the problem. You should not need your 6 and 7 to be bailing you out as often as they do
Likewise even picking Dawson in the first place - he bats at 3 in country cricket and they've got him at 8 as a spinning all-rounder. It's to paper over plodders like Jennings and Ballance.
Not that I want to assist the poms too much but I'd ditch Ballance and bring in Buttler to keep and have Bairstow to 3 as a specialist batsman. The young guy Hameed who played in England looked a better opening prospect than Jennings too.
Cook
Hameed
Bairstow
Root
Ali
Stokes
Buttler
Still pretty wobbly but better than what they've got now.
If the top 5 or 6 don't score the runs then a 20 or 30 from no.7 or no.8 won't help you down under where Australia's flat track bullies will hit 400 every first innings.
Because when the other team bats it's a minefield. It's a highway only when Australia is batting on it. Just ask our mates from New Zealand.if Warner and co are such flat track bullies here then why do poms cream their pants on the same deck?