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Bad habits developed from having to play across the line on their slow turning pitches.
India tour of Ireland and England - 2018
Bad habits developed from having to play across the line on their slow turning pitches.
Gethelred
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... and the lack of pace and bounce causing blokes to get used to getting on the front foot the whole time stopping some of them from being able to adapt when the ball leaps at you at pace.
Bear in mind though, Laxman is a textbook example of a player whose technique shouldn't have worked away from the subcontinent, yet he played some of the most unbelievable knocks I've ever seen in Australia. Sensational player, as determined as he was classy.
You can get over the limitations of your technique if you're willing to work hard enough, and to want it hard enough.
India has some alright pace bowlers these days. It's the conditions and wickets.
Even though it's been dry over here - if that test had been held in London, it would have been highly unlikely for them to get the movement they got in Birmingham - they did have some overcast sessoins. Or at least the sessions I saw.
Even though it's been dry over here - if that test had been held in London, it would have been highly unlikely for them to get the movement they got in Birmingham - they did have some overcast sessoins. Or at least the sessions I saw.
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Laxman was a very smart player. Really elegant driver but his weaknesses were masked by calculating what not to play. He wasn't someone who tried to score in all areas of the pitch. Whereas these days the mindset of getting the upper hand of a challenging bowling spell is to fight fire with fire and belt your way through it. England are bad at that too - It's like having a team full of Sehwag's at times
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Malan dropped and no Stokes (court case) for 2nd Test. Will be interesting to see how much that affects England.
Malan is no big loss and woakes for all his struggles away from home is a genuine allrounder in england. 23 bowling average and and 42 batting average won't be maintained but he is clearly a different player over there.
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The biggest challenge for touring sides in a test series is the first test.
Whilst India had a three game T20I and a 3 game ODI series prior to the tests, they only had one 'red ball' game, which was a three dayer. Hardly adequate preparation for such different playing conditions.
The fact India ran England so close should fill them with a great deal of confidence. They are clearly the number 1 side in the world according to the ICC rankings and their performance in South Africa was very positive despite losing 2-1.
The top order batsmen must take inspiration from their leader and carry the responsibility to put up a formidable total in the second test onwards.
By it being a five test series, India have a greater ability to regroup and win the series after a 1-0 deficit.
Whilst India had a three game T20I and a 3 game ODI series prior to the tests, they only had one 'red ball' game, which was a three dayer. Hardly adequate preparation for such different playing conditions.
The fact India ran England so close should fill them with a great deal of confidence. They are clearly the number 1 side in the world according to the ICC rankings and their performance in South Africa was very positive despite losing 2-1.
The top order batsmen must take inspiration from their leader and carry the responsibility to put up a formidable total in the second test onwards.
By it being a five test series, India have a greater ability to regroup and win the series after a 1-0 deficit.
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India seem to not want any practice matches though in order to conserve the players. The Essex warm-up was supposed to be a 4 day game but India asked it to be shortened so they could train for an extra day. They did the same thing in South Africa.
I might be wrong here but I think they did ask for it to be shortened due to the heat wave.
With the South Africa one, I think they were playing a 2 day game so they opted for the practice sessions instead.
I guess tour scheduling is a difficult task so it's easy to say they should have 2 four dayers, but it certainly doesn't make it easy for the touring batsmen so I wouldn't rush to kick guys like Dhawan and Rahul out of the side immediately. A few more days of red ball practice and match day experience might do the trick for them.
Should be ok today for the first session. Might get another session's worth of play throughout the day today.
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It isn't even that!
I've seen blokes that can swing the ball that far out. I've seen blokes that can make the ball cut that far. What I really don't understand is how you make the ball cut out whilst swinging out, and get both to go that far in the same delivery.
On his day, Anderson's as much a freak as any we've seen.
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Rain is pretty set in. Don't expect much play today.
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Reckon they'll get in on bits and pieces but it looks like it'll be a frustrating day.
The forecast after 5pm is pretty clear so they might be able to get in a good chunk of overs later on.
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This is the risk of pushing all the tests to the end of summer. Lose days of play to bad weather.
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Lovely weather at Lords.
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Big shower just coming through now.... This will wipe out more time unfortunately - possibly even the day if this goes for a while. Its pretty heavy.
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Looks pretty dark there in London.
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Bahahahahaha running yourself out in these bowling conditions tho. Hahahaha and off for rain too.
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