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Donny Aries

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:49 pm
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First Test.

SL 135. Bess 5/30, Broad 3/20.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:49 pm
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Poms 2/131. Root 70*.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:50 pm
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3/259.

Root 126*, Dan Lawrence 63*.

Lasith Embuldeniya 3/94.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:56 pm
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Bess ? Off spinner, Dom Bess is playing his 11th Test. Had 19 wickets @ 40.6 before his 5fa.

Lawrence ? Batsman, Dan Lawrence is playing his first Test. Has 10 centuries and 18 half tons. Bowls a bit of off spin.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:33 pm
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SL 135 & 4/242
England 421

Day 4, Session 1.

Root 228.
Thirimanne 111.

SL are paying for the disastrous Day 1.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:31 pm
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SL made 359 in their 2nd innings.

England, 3/76, won by 7 wickets.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 5:35 pm
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Forgotten man (maybe not for much longer) Joe Root made another century.

At lunch, Day 3, 2nd Test, England trail by 200 runs with 6 wickets in hand.

SL 381
Anderson 6/40 (29). Shocked
England 4/181
Root 105*, Buttler 30*.


(I thought Anderson's record overseas was poor. Maybe I should check.)
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 1:48 pm
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Root run out for 186.

He missed out on becoming the first England player to score double centuries in consecutive Tests since W. Hammond in 1928 and 1933. But he did pass Gower on the England Test run-scorer leaderboard.

Cook 12,472
Gooch 8,900
Stewart 8,463
Root 8,238
Gower 8,231

Obviously they play much more nowadays... Stewart is obviously not a great batsman.


Dobell, cricinfo:

"So, what is Root doing differently? Well, from a technical point of view, the obvious change is that he is currently going back and across as part of his trigger movement. In recent months, he had slipped into the habit of merely going back and, as a result, his balance wasn't as good. He also opened his stance, extravagantly at times, to allow him to manoeuvre the turning ball square of the wicket.

But how much of this splurge of runs is down to technique and how much is temperament is hard to say. He went through 2020 without a Test century - the first time in his career he has been through a full calendar year without scoring one..."
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 2:18 pm
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N. Hoult, Telegraph, London:

"He ate a banana and drank an energy gel every 45 minutes, seven of each in all, to stave off cramp, and with the burden of captaincy to handle, too, he cannot carry his team through a tour to India as well.

Root has scored 415 runs in this series; the other 11 players picked by England have mustered 383.

Root, up to his dismissal, had been on the field for all but 37 overs of the series; his powers of concentration and stamina were remarkable given the heat, the pressure of batting against the turning ball with men around the bat, and the amount of sweep shots he played.

Root swept 58 times in this innings (108 in the series)...

Footwork has been Root’s distinguishing feature, either forward or back. He defends right under his nose, a walking blueprint for England’s younger batsmen, who have been caught off edges playing too straight and in front of their pads as they would against spin in England.

Against the seamers, Root has started to twirl the bat in his hands as he settles into his stance, a memory aid to stay focused, a nod to his conversion rate of fifties to hundreds."
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:04 pm
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SL 381 & 126
Eng 344 & 4/164
England won by 6 wickets inside 4 days.

England won the series 2-0. Shocked

SL crumbled in their 2nd innings.
1st innings: Leach 0/119 (38 ); Bess 0/76 (26).
2nd innings: Leach 4/59 (14); Bess 4/49 (16); Root 2/0 (1.5).

Man of the Match & Man of the Series: Joe Root (of course).
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:24 pm
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No mention of Lasith Embuldeniya's 10 wickets ?

7/137 & 3/73 (Only 4 Pommy wickets fell).

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:06 pm
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^^^^^^

Yeah congratulations to England for deservedly wining the test and the series. They were the better team. However Embuldeniya’s bowling was the highlight for me. Hopefully he can stay injury free and continue to get many wickets in a long and fulfilling test career.
The rest of the team have to either improve enormously or be replaced by better versions of themselves. Their current batting is just awful with only Mathews the occasional exception. They need to be consistently competitive. This will take a while to happen with the next generation. Until then it will be a case of lambs being thrown to the wolves.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:07 pm
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K wrote:
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Anderson 6/40 (29). Shocked
...
(I thought Anderson's record overseas was poor. Maybe I should check.)

157 Tests, 606 wickets at ave. 26.60 and SR 55.9.
Home: 89 Tests, 384 wickets at ave. 23.83 and SR 50.2.
Away: 62 Tests, 200 wickets at ave. 32.59 and SR 66.7.
Neutral: 6 Tests, 22 wickets at ave 20.54 and SR 58.9.


The media may have missed the fact he brought up 200 away Test wickets.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 6:36 pm
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For comparison:

Stuart Broad

144 Tests, 517 wickets at ave. 27.56 and SR 56.4.
Home: 82 Tests, 334 wickets at ave. 25.54 and SR 50.0.
Away: 56 Tests, 163 wickets at ave. 32.27 and SR 68.5.
Neutral: 6 Tests, 20 wickets at ave. 22.85 and SR 62.6.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:48 pm
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Oz "begin an intensive series of Test assignments in Asia from early 2022. Trips to Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India are planned, totaling eight Test matches in all."


Time for predictions:

I cannot predict if these tours will go ahead as planned.

If they do, I predict Embuldeniya will expose Steve Smith's known obvious weakness against left-arm orthodox bowling (and, I suspect, legspin).

(And Shah will be waiting for him in Pakistan too.)
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