The change in pace of the wicket and softening of the ball definitely has something to do with it but, apart from perhaps Root, we are a team of only two gears.
Rule of thumb with wickets in hand is that a side should double their score in the last overs of a 50 over match. With the change in pace of the track, getting 388, even with 9 wickets in hand, was always going to be a challenge but not even managing to get 140 in that time or even a run a ball is very poor.
It seems that most teams are struggling towards the end of their innings in this tourno - Australia and India included. Lets hope we have enough runs and knowledge to be able to put the pressure on NZ - i think the keys are 1)early wickets 2)get Williamson early
Poor choice of words by myself, dragging in sense feels like its been going on forever. I do quite enjoy that there is a lot of cricket to watch aswell, but only flick in between other games (which aren't England)
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66/5 in the last 15 overs.
Morgan 42
272-7 46.1
194-1 after 30 overs.
111-7 off the last 20.
A lot of the pitches seem to be slowing down as the day progresses which is a bit weird
Lets hope we have enough runs and knowledge to be able to put the pressure on NZ - i think the keys are 1)early wickets 2)get Williamson early
Poor choice of words by myself, dragging in sense feels like its been going on forever. I do quite enjoy that there is a lot of cricket to watch aswell, but only flick in between other games (which aren't England)