The Bedge wrote:Can England show a bit of fight today?
Geez they've relied heavily on Malan and Root to score their runs - only two blokes with 100+ runs this series so far.
Hameed 58 @ 14.50 from 4 inn
Burns 51 @ 12.75 from 4 inn
Pope 44 @ 14.66 from 3 inn
Do they have any other batsmen on this tour?
No, they'll fold like a deck of cards.
Buttler may as well go the slap once he gets out there, you can see the lack of confidence Stokes has in the tail by the way he won't take singles while he has someone up the other end who has a HS of 169.
We've been fortunate that we've batted at the right times this series, I thought it was a ballsy decision to bat again Saturday night instead of enforcing the follow-on, lucky Don Harris stepped up and got us through the night.
One thing that has irked me is the fact that we've had two Aussie umpires, we've been afforded all of the favours on-field, it's embarrassing, Smith's LBW yesterday and then Burns' getting fired out caught behind last night almost before the ball made it to Carey.