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[northernblue]

Sweep shots aren’t fine in those conditions.  Smith’s demise should have convinced the following batters to park the sweep shot.

I haven’t seen todays play, but that’s not now todays players are coached/or play.
They are taught and encouraged to go, you fail and you go again.
It is what it is, we can sit here and grumble that they don’t value their wicket and play poor shots but they go out to score or get out so that someone else has time to score (or go out…)