***Official*** 3rd Test at the WACA

[TheJediBrah]

All this attention on Boof and no one's mentioned how creepy Smith looks like he's ready to make love to that urn

 

[SeamUp]

All this attention on Boof and no one's mentioned how creepy Smith looks like he's ready to make love to that urn

I think many people assumed TPC can get away with it.

Becauae he is cool like that.

 

[srbhkshk]

All this attention on Boof and no one's mentioned how creepy Smith looks like he's ready to make love to that urn

People have got used to the awkwardness watching his batting over the years.

 

[Spark]

On Root, his issue for me is that he seems to have forgotten how to score runs in Test cricket. His actual shot making in the last couple of years has still largely been fine, hence all the breezy 70s he's made, but his actual approach to building an innings is all wrong.

Yep. It feels like he's let all the"play your natural game" stuff get to his head, or is distracted.

 

[SeamUp]

Yep. It feels like he's let all the"play your natural game" stuff get to his head, or is distracted.

I agree with this. Maybe the Bayliss effect. But he is good enough to grind out hundreds and adapt but he is too loose with all the bravado in my opinion.

 

[Top_Cat]

Yep. It feels like he's let all the"play your natural game" stuff get to his head, or is distracted.

Yeah by being the skipper of a, charitably, inconsistent team.

 

[Spark]

Yeah by being the skipper of a, charitably, inconsistent team.

His conversion rate and throwing away great looking innings problem well predates him getting the captaincy though.

 

[OverratedSanity]

His conversion rate is so much worse away from home (3 hundreds/17 50-99 scores), despite his away record actually being pretty good overall. It's pretty baffling.

 

[Gob]

His conversion rate is so much worse away from home (3 hundreds/17 50-99 scores), despite his away record actually being pretty good overall. It's pretty baffling.

Have to put Virat ahead of him now i guess

 

[Top_Cat]

He's a top player and will figure it out. The greats always do. It was basically a meme how often someone like Dravid got out 50-90 early days but now people only remember the big tons. Root's still only 26 and has 13 Test tons. The guy knows how to score against top oppo at Test level.

 

[Gnske]

So Smith equal with Hutton at 945 points on batting rankings.

 

[Spikey]

goddamnit he was so close to beating it.

 

[SeamUp]

So Smith equal with Hutton at 945 points on batting rankings.

No way could we have seen this leg-spinning 'hack' do what he has done.

This seems a life-time ago. About 1:48 for the dismissal. Forgot this random series happened in England.

 

[Spikey]

i like how his debut innings is in his second match

 

[Starfighter]

Back when Amir could swing the ball both ways.

 

[vcs]

He played a good innings in the 2nd match to stretch Pakistan's target to 180-odd. I actually thought they'd struggle to make it but for once, they didn't bottle it, LOL.

 

[ImpatientLime]

He's a top player and will figure it out. The greats always do. It was basically a meme how often someone like Dravid got out 50-90 early days but now people only remember the big tons. Root's still only 26 and has 13 Test tons. The guy knows how to score against top oppo at Test level.

or he'll go full english and finish with a low to mid 40s average.

 

[Starfighter]

Why do English batsmen do that?

inb4 'they suck'.

 

[GotSpin]

His shot against Lyon was so just D grade awful. Team needs him to knuckle down. First delivery and he goes for a huge wafted drive

 

[Gnske]

No way could we have seen this leg-spinning 'hack' do what he has done.

This seems a life-time ago. About 1:48 for the dismissal. Forgot this random series happened in England.

Superb leaving technique there by Paine in that video tbh, indisputable.