(12-16-2018, 09:59 AM)crashlander link Wrote:Our batsmen are certainly our Achilles' Heel at the moment. Very ordinary.
I think it's both batting and bowling, our players and coaches are making excuses for poor to average bowling on a deadly pitch. India get hold of a pill and it again magically looks unplayable.
Bad batting certainly yes, good bowling no way in hell!
(12-16-2018, 10:58 AM)JonHenry link Wrote:Nothing to do with Hick.
These blokes have been born and bred on garbage cricket.
Change the academy or centre of excellence and change the style of cricketer that emerges from it
Yep, this is the long term price the national team will pay because the ACB's emphasis on T20 and ODI. If the ACB keep bending over for the BCCI and it will continue indefinitely.
Keep in mind, most of the Indian's are trained and coached by premium former test playing Australians at the MRF Academies, while the ACB hires a bunch of B-Graders.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"