If I were a quick bowler, one person I would be pretty keen on now bowling short to, would be Jofra Archer. Especially as the Aussies are due to have up to eight more innings this Summer.
Archer's first three balls (all dots) in Test cricket:
1. Safe outside off stump 2. Inswinger that slices Bancroft in two, just misses off stump, carries on swinging past Bairstow to the boundary - 4 byes 3. Quick bouncer that has the batsman ducking
To be fair. Warner looks like a wicket waiting to happen everytime he bats at the the monent. Was he this bad before the ban? He will fit in with our openers?
I said to myself in the previous over - he's nicked that - absolutely no appeal from anybody. Still, it made no difference in the end.
I was convinced he nicked it as well. I don't know why they didn't appeal? I thought Roots lips read "he's nicked that". Maybe they thought they would get him out anyway.
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230-8 Jofra out for 12, Bairstow 45*
Broad now in the middle ... but probably not for long.
Broad 11
He will never make it as an opening batsman in tests imo.
Now for the sandpaper boys.
3 down tonight I reckon.
How about hanging around and accumulating singles with Leach? He proved the other week he's no mug with the bat.
258 ao
1. Safe outside off stump
2. Inswinger that slices Bancroft in two, just misses off stump, carries on swinging past Bairstow to the boundary - 4 byes
3. Quick bouncer that has the batsman ducking
Interesting start ...
11-1
11-1
Still, it made no difference in the end.