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Credit to the Aussie bowlers for sticking in there - No rest from this attack
This England team bats like idiots. There needs to be a 'proper' batsman in the middle order now, I'm not sure a middle order of all rounders and wicket keepers is taking enough responsibility.
Coming up well short here, 350-400 was the order of the day to capitalise on that poor call at the toss by Paine
It's not just that we have all-rounders everywhere. It's that we bring in all-rounders at lousy times. I moaned about Overton coming in having played a load of T20 cricket and one FC game in six weeks and being expected to be the third seamer and to bat decently. How can you do that with so little long format match under your belt recently?
You can put Curran in the same boat now. Since the Test against Ireland where he didn't bowl in the second innings, he's had one first class game where he batted for one innings and bowled in one innings before being replaced after being selected for the England squad. He's then expected to go and be the all-round Stokes replacement (if he wasn't then Woakes would have been ahead of him in the batting order).
It's more of the same old madness.
Negative thinking: the defeat by an innings is still on...
Positive thinking: well at least we avoided the follow-on!
@earwighoney Gill's in the squad for SA
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27598493/shubman-gill-gets-maiden-call-india-test-squad-rohit-sharma-picked-opener
Back to the test match, great to see ButtLea build a solid partnership. It's a pretty decent recovery now.
That's fucking terrible. Paine should be fined for a slow over rate but there's no chance of that happening.