(12-28-2018, 01:08 AM)DJC link Wrote:Bad batting will always overcome dead pitches LP
I think scoreboard pressure is a major factor now.
Yesterday it was a boring road, today it's deadly, unpredictable and breaking up!
It's not gone through some dramatic change.
The real difference is the discipline of the bowlers in building pressure by bowling at the stumps and in good zones. Our batsmen have hardly had a delivery they can leave! I'm normally a bowling booster having spent 17 years playing cricket as an all-rounder, but I just can't find a positive for our current crew of quicks, they are very average in terms of control and consistency and they are not beginners.
Not that I'm making excuses for a batsmen either, they have been average as well, the Indians can get wickets even when the ball doesn't bounce!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"