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[Vic Nicholas]

All day batsmen from both teams have been surrendering their wickets in an unecessary, wasteful manner.

All this T20 etc is messing with batsmen's techniques.

Why would you play some of those shots? How hard is it to leave the ball wide of off stump...especially early?

[Wedge2408]

I hate to say it but that was a ripper by Anderson!!

[Vic Nicholas]

Clarke bowled by an absolute beauty.

Not much you can do about that when you first come in.

[Nickauger]

Very good nut! That would get all out I reckon, when on 0!

[Vic Nicholas]

Rogers is looking comfortable and Watson WAS looking comfortable.

Watson's brainfade has triggered this. Make no mistake.

Cowan is simply not up to it.

[qalib13]

What a jaffa from jimmy!

I'm sorry but Steven smith at no. 5, it doesn't really fill the opposition with fear.

[Giraffe208]

What a jaffa from jimmy!

I'm sorry but Steven smith at no. 5, it doesn't really fill the opposition with fear.

This! Not seen too much of Hughes but he was worked out pretty comfortably last time he played against England wasn't he?

[Vic Nicholas]

This! Not seen too much of Hughes but he was worked out pretty comfortably last time he played against England wasn't he?

Given that he went out every different way imagineable in that last series in Australia, I would like you to tell me just "what" the worked out consisted of?

He was bowled, caught behind, run out, caught at cover...what was the plan?

Given that he was averaging only 16 in FC cricket that summer, Lord only knows why he was brought in. The selectors did him no favours at all.

 

[Giraffe208]

Given that he went out every different way imagineable in that last series in Australia, I would like you to tell me just "what" the worked out consisted of?

He was bowled, caught behind, run out, caught at cover...what was the plan?

Given that he was averaging only 16 in FC cricket that summer, Lord only knows why he was brought in. The selectors did him no favours at all.

To be fair it was as much a question as a comment. Memory may not serve me correctly here but was he having problems against the short ball? That could have in turn created a couple of different dismissals? There is no chance I could have recalled how he was out so fair play to you.

[Vic Nicholas]

After Harmison got Hughes with a beauty in the Aust vs Lions game, it was decided that Hughes had a weakness vs the ball at the body (more specifically, the chest).

When Flintoff dismissed Hughes for 36 at Sophia Gardens during the first test with an identical ball to Harmison's, it seemed to confirm it.

Hughes has NEVER been dismissed that way ever again!

At Lord's Hughes was caught behind for 4 strangled down the leg side (the unluckiest form of dismissal). In the second innings, Strauss claimed a catch at second slip that bounced nearly six inches in front of him and Hughes dismissed for 16 was on his way out of the test team (unfairly IMHO).

In Australia in teh fowllow up series, Katich damaged his achillies in the second test and Hughes was brought in even though he was having a nightmare summer being totally out of form. In those three tests, he went out in every concievable manner with no one dismissal following a pattern. Simply put, he was out of form and should not have been playing at all.

The NZers DID have a pattern though. Caught Guptill (second slip) bowled Martin...simply slanting across Hughes and letting Hughes do the rest.

Will be interesting what tactics are adopted to him in this series and how Hughes deals with it all.

[Giraffe208]

That sir is excellent knowledge.

My mind must have jumped on the short ball bandwagon!

[Wedge2408]

I've never been his biggest fan, but it seems that Smith is showing a little bit here, putting away the odd loose ball and keeping out the good ones. Hopefully he doesn't lose his head and can go on to build a decent partnership with Rogers.

[Vic Nicholas]

That sir is excellent knowledge.

My mind must have jumped on the short ball bandwagon!

You Sir, are too kind.

Some things stand out in the mind, even though they may no longer be relevant.

In teh summer of 2010, the Pakistani bowlers had a lot of success bowling Cook as he over balanced as his head was to far to the off. He had a shocking time that series and only a century in the last test saved him from being dropped and missing the Oz tour which he so dominated!

In reality, the ONLY way to get Cook is to get him wafting a drive at a ball going away...like today. That summer versus the Pakistanis when Cook kept over balancing and getting bowled was just an anomoly.

[Wedge2408]

Well, Rogers is out. There goes my hope that he would guide the aussies to a respectable total.

Time for hughes and smith to stand up...

[Vic Nicholas]

Rogers out now...perhaps unluckily...

That was JUST clipping.

Seen others more out than that not given today.