Fuller Pilch
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Would Australia promote Starc for quick runs? Neither Paine nor Cummins are very quick scorers.
Could be a change made to adapt to the conditions. He does do that a lot
Nah, he has done it all series, even when he was making big runs in the LO games, and when he was not scoring many runs. Guess there are enough moving parts to the way he bats that it could swing back around to normal, but I feel these seem more age related. A bit like Lara in his latter days, will score big when he gets in but may just present more opportunities to be dismissed before he gets in than he used to, at his best.Kimber had a piece the other day pointing out that people are bowling shorter and straighter to him and he's having a lot more difficulty scoring off those balls. It's an interesting thesis tbh, not sure if I buy it though - seems very much a consequence facing so much Wagner more than anything else.
HiSmith 57 (153) but no discussion about his strike rate for some reason
Was still worse batting than Pujara before this acceleration(which everyone kne was coming) when you consider Smith is in a declaration situation and Pujara wasn't.
What about it? They already have enough.So about the morning's go slow...
Wouldn't be surprised.If that was a caught behind decision it would have been given out because there was a tiny spike on snicko.