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*Official* 3rd Test at the Sardar Patel Sports Complex, Ahmedabad, 24 - 28 Feb 2021

Woodster

International Captain
what's the plan behind all these sweeps? seems a near impossible shot to get right to me
The unknown of how much it’s turning (from little to huge) probably means they’ve more chance of a decent connection with a horizontal bat, bit like when you’re not picking a spinner, of course with the inconsistent bounce top edges become a very real possibility.
 

Spark

Global Moderator
The winner of this might actually be Kraigg Brathwaite's 6fa. Certainly a much worse bowler and it was instrumental in the way the game went.
was that 6/single figures on a total rank turned where he turned into syd barnes on a wet dog though
 

Spark

Global Moderator
The Sibley review and several others of this type dispel the myth that batsmen always know whether they’ve hit it or not, they clearly don’t!
surely no one actually paying attention has believed in this myth in at least five years, at least here
 

Spark

Global Moderator
i don't mind the approach at all but i still think the inconsistency in bounce makes that shot not the right one to play. attacking anything seemingly overpitched definitely the right call though.
 

Burgey

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Stokes is playing this exactly right here, can tone it down if root gets out first.

Ashwin been a bit average this dig so far by his standards
 

Spark

Global Moderator
Nah but the fact that the pitch wasn't really that bad actually made it funnier imo, especially since the actual spinners in the his team were getting milked.
eh bad bowlers getting a bunch of wickets is definitely funny, but part timers being made into gods by the pitch is the pinnacle of comedy cricket imo
 

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Amazing, isn't it? It's 34 for 3 but if they get bowled out for 50, it won't be a shock, or perhaps even a surprise.

Not good enough for test cricket IMO, this pitch.

Stokes playing the shot of the innings so far though.
 

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