The Aus bowling has been every bit as good as the English bowling yesterday. Not every day you see four catches at first slip and two caught behind from the first six wickets!
Tight line and length (and some poor footwork) made Roy, Burns, Denley and Stokes have big swings at balls they all could have left.
Root fair enough - he got a great second ball, and I thought Bairstow was seeing them well until he nicked one without any footwork.
Persisting opening with Roy is what we would call "throwing good money after bad".
Burns' forward leaning batting stance is his achilles for short balls, and he can expect a lot of them for the rest of the series.
Interesting that Warner missed out on runs at Edgebaston, had another shocker at Lords plus dropped a couple (allowing Stokes to get a hundred), and here he makes runs and all the catches stick.
I guess that's why we all love cricket - knowing that despite poor form, sometimes it can all turn around for you!
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