Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Or maybe he was unlucky and careless - treading on his stumps, getting given lbw incorrectly and being run-out.
And if you seriously think getting him caught off a Hook-shot is working him out, you're delusional!
Bicknell has got him lbw twice, Hoggard once - and 3 times he's played at balls he needn't (and not doing that is his biggest strength), being at Headingley, PE and Kingsmead (first-innings all 3 times).
Before long he's going to get back his judgement of most of the rest of his innings, leave the balls he needs to leave, and wait for the totally unavoidable balls on the pads.
He'll probably stop missing straight balls, too - given that he's not done that much, either.
And if he gets caught Pulling or Hooking again this series I'll be quite amazed.
It's been a combination of different circumstances that have caused his cheap dismissals - until there is a sequence of similar dismissals, you can't say anyone's worked him out.
And if you seriously think getting him caught off a Hook-shot is working him out, you're delusional!
Bicknell has got him lbw twice, Hoggard once - and 3 times he's played at balls he needn't (and not doing that is his biggest strength), being at Headingley, PE and Kingsmead (first-innings all 3 times).
Before long he's going to get back his judgement of most of the rest of his innings, leave the balls he needs to leave, and wait for the totally unavoidable balls on the pads.
He'll probably stop missing straight balls, too - given that he's not done that much, either.
And if he gets caught Pulling or Hooking again this series I'll be quite amazed.
It's been a combination of different circumstances that have caused his cheap dismissals - until there is a sequence of similar dismissals, you can't say anyone's worked him out.