06-07-2022, 01:00
(This post was last modified: 06-07-2022, 02:50 by Ska'dForLife-WBA.)
Yeah, I think this summer feels so good because we've been iffy or downright bad even on home soil for at least three years now. And during Root's captaincy we cycled through two ways of batting with four outcomes:
1. Occupy the crease and score too slowly (= draw)
2. Occupy the crease and get out cheap (= lose)
3. Attack the bowling and get out cheap (= lose)
4. Attack the bowling and score quickly (= 50/50 win or lose)
It seems Stokes & McCullum have simply decided to put all the eggs in basket 4 (at least partly out of necessity) and given the players full backing in taking risks, which they may not have had under Root, when different people were pulling in different directions in the dressing room and among the backroom staff. No idea how it'll work when we end up batting first in a match, and as you say, foreign tours are a different world. And there's a possibility that this summer is basically another 1990: warm weather, flat pitches and a bad batch of Dukes all combining to make fortune favour the bold. But there's no denying that this style has a psychological effect on the opposition which will have teams on their guard for a while to come: India just went to pieces in the field once Bairstow came in (though I don't think it helped that Bumrah had Kohli in his ear; you have to wonder whether the wheels would have come off to that extent if Virat was still calling the shots).
Guess we'll just sit back and enjoy the ride!
1. Occupy the crease and score too slowly (= draw)
2. Occupy the crease and get out cheap (= lose)
3. Attack the bowling and get out cheap (= lose)
4. Attack the bowling and score quickly (= 50/50 win or lose)
It seems Stokes & McCullum have simply decided to put all the eggs in basket 4 (at least partly out of necessity) and given the players full backing in taking risks, which they may not have had under Root, when different people were pulling in different directions in the dressing room and among the backroom staff. No idea how it'll work when we end up batting first in a match, and as you say, foreign tours are a different world. And there's a possibility that this summer is basically another 1990: warm weather, flat pitches and a bad batch of Dukes all combining to make fortune favour the bold. But there's no denying that this style has a psychological effect on the opposition which will have teams on their guard for a while to come: India just went to pieces in the field once Bairstow came in (though I don't think it helped that Bumrah had Kohli in his ear; you have to wonder whether the wheels would have come off to that extent if Virat was still calling the shots).
Guess we'll just sit back and enjoy the ride!