Cook looked a totally different batsman in the absence of Starc. Cook has issues with left arm seam bowlers Starc, Johnson, Khan, Amir etc. Cook lines up the right arm seamers a lot better. Elsewhere Root once again gets out after getting to his 50. Only 13 centuries from the 48 tines he has crossed 50. A paltry 27% conversation rate.
Th guy does score runs and no one can argue with that. However, when a commentator is waxing lyrical about his defence and when you look he’s not into tha ball and got a huge gap between bat and pad you’ve got to wonder what these commentators are smoking.Always got to remember pundits are paid to BS players and games up. Hell, even Hussey was saying how good Bancrofts technique was.. I think he’s lost his marbles if he thinks that Sure England went negative but against batsmen who can’t stand more than a couple of dot balls it works.. they get all annoyed and flash. Warner could have been out a lot in his innings but some how people seem to be forgetting how often he hit it in the air
Cook giving about as many chances hitting in the air as Warner 😂🤣😂 Dropped 2 or 3 times now