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not even difficult.

Not sure about Brook at 3 with his short ball playing but still better than Lawrence. Bairstow at 6 makes more sense but longish tail if they are going to keep up the aggressive lower order batting.

Botham outed Roebuck as the "mastermind" as well in one of his biographies.

Context has to play apart in this. if england were 89 for 9 or 368 for 6 not sure there's so much uproar.

It's a highly paid professional sport that needs to maintain income streams. As one of the Aussies said excitement comes from winning. Compare it to Rugby which has become far more cynical in the professional era in terms of gamesmanship.

Few players walk anymore unless it's blatant. Consensus seems to be it's up to the umpire, not the player. Disputed catches similar. Majority of the time catchers know whether they caught it cleanly or not - still force umpires to make the decision.

Don't have much of a problem with the Bairstow dismissal. Symptomatic of a team that lacks concentration too often ATM or is too focused on just the one thing. This isn't a smart team at times. Yesterday we were 6 down and needed 70 odd to win with 60 overs left. No need to try and win it in 20...

Yep. Pick your moments.stokes now a good example. Last proper batsmen so how does he bat with the tail?

Think Broad could be wearing a few after his verbals

Hopefully makes England more focused and determined going forward. Whatever the result it's still England's mistakes and sloppiness making these 1st 2 Tests more difficult than they could be.

Australia playing the short ball like the English batsmen albeit with the lower pace. Looked comfortable against it earlier. Lack of concentration??

where's the raw pace outside of Archer, Stone & Wood - none of whom can stay fit? Tongue has previously been clocked at 90 but down from that 1st 2 Tests. Maybe Carse at Durham, Jamie Overton. A load in the mid-80s but raw pace out there - unless I'm missing somone.

Yep. Eg Fielders go back to the boundaries take 2s can still keep rr well over 4 per over. Applying pressure isn't just through boundaries. If that option is closed off run better the wickets and force opposition to bring Fielders in. Duck under 90 mph bouncers. It's max 2 per over. Maximize...

Hard to blame Anderson in some ways. Stokes and McCullum have asked groundsmen to produce dry, flat wickets. Anderson isn't suited to those (some of his overseas records show it too). He admitted as much after Edgbaston. Not a lot of thought seems to have gone into how to take 20 wickets with...

Australia should just take their time to get to a score of 250+ then have a day and a half at least to win the game.

Going to have to argue Bairstow & Robinson - who can both bat -were Bazball. Wickets falling and both out trying to score big runs. Last recognised batsman has to do better and nurse the tail - not expose it. Bazball is about maximising pressure not crumbling under it. Sometimes you have to...

Patience with Bazball will wear thin if the number of ridiculous dismissals doesn't reduce. And Bairstow has to be scoring runs to justify keeping Foakes out. And they all better get used to short bowling - what was that 4 batsmen hit??

Not smart enough to le them go. Still a fine line between aggressive and stupid batting.

Brook going to need to learn fast. Going to spend a summer having to deal with short pitched bowling.

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