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Not a problem, when you're 450+ and NZ having to bat against 3 of the best quicks in the World ... AND arguably the best Offie (with Ashwin), and the wicket taking spin.
Last edited by Donny on Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Pies4shaw wrote:And a complete absence of basic batting aptitude.
That's shared by all cricket nations. It's the Death of Test Batting. As Langer said of Marnus in December:
"... he actually moves his feet, got footwork patterns. It's a dying art in the game of cricket with the amount of T20 and one-day cricket guys play now."
Certainly there was a shocking lack of footwork in Smith's dismissal. The side-on footage looked awful. He just left his feet rooted to the crease and groped at the ball with the bat.
One sign that a nation's batting production line has broken is when it selects two or three wicketkeepers in the same Test side. e.g. There are five (okay, 4 1/2) keepers playing in this Test.
K wrote:...
One sign that a nation's batting production line has broken is when it selects two or three wicketkeepers in the same Test side. e.g. There are five (okay, 4 1/2) keepers playing in this Test.
Err... they claimed Phillips is a keeper too. I must investigate.* That'd be six wicketkeepers playing in this Test then. A clear sign of the death of batting (and wicketkeeping).
Much was made of India playing four keepers (Dhoni, Pant, Karthik, Rahul) in the ODI WC against Bangladesh, but I don't know the most they've played in a Test. (Saha is their Test keeper.)
* Yes, he's listed everywhere as a wicketkeeper batsman. 7 out of his 11 T20Is have been as keeper. I wonder if he keeps for Auckland in first-class cricket.