We don't bowl an aggressive enough line when the wicket is flat(ish)

I watched boult/southee's opening 6 overs on Saturday night and turned it off because I could see what would happen as they were really targeting the stumps whereas we generally for slip catches ,ie a line about 3 inches outside off peg.when you watched those two you realise how good Anderson is and how much we miss him,so yes there is an issue there.what got me in the first innings was losing 3 wickets to De Grandolme,a tidy cricketer but after you've seen off southern boult and wagner ,to let him nick our middle order out is criminal.

Posted By: protheroe fitzgibbon on November 25th 2019 at 09:11:15

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Just pathetic from England. Shit. (n/m) (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Nov 25, 07:15:46
- It’s only a test match in New Zealand (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Nov 25, 09:53:52
  - nice little training sesh in the sun for our lads, bit of a beano i'd imagine (Other Sports) - Tombs, Nov 25, 09:57:03
- It's pretty poor (Other Sports) - Cardiff Canary, Nov 25, 09:14:46
- I know a lot of the debate is around the 1st innings batting collapse etc (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Nov 25, 08:58:03
  - We don't bowl an aggressive enough line when the wicket is flat(ish) (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Nov 25, 09:11:15
    - I agree entirely. The constant Archer short stuff has to stop too. It no (Other Sports) - Jim, Nov 25, 09:13:56
- A genuine sense now that Root's captaincy has been persisted with (Other Sports) - norway, Nov 25, 08:38:07
  - Yes,they need real leadership on the field,it's all abit too nice imo.plus they (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Nov 25, 09:55:26
    - The one thing I'll cling on to is the churn and relative inexperience of that XI (Other Sports) - norway, Nov 25, 10:07:56
  - Stokes doesn;t strike me as a captain to be honest. Yes he's capable of heroics and (Other Sports) - Jim, Nov 25, 09:11:39
    - Catches win matches. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Nov 25, 09:23:27
- Can't bat, our bowling's poor and dreadful fielding. Other than that we're pretty good. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Nov 25, 08:31:23
  - At least we can watch some live cricket more easily next month Dubbers. (Other Sports) - shoddy, Nov 25, 09:17:41
    - I can see us getting trounced if we don't learn how to play Test Cricket again! (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Nov 25, 09:20:05
      - Yep its gonna be messy (n/m) (Other Sports) - shoddy, Nov 25, 09:54:39
- Dreadful (Other Sports) - paulg, Nov 25, 08:10:45
- Yep there just not able to bat for any time (Other Sports) - eddie, Nov 25, 07:46:18
  - Our batsmen simply aren’t good enough (n/m) (Other Sports) - SimonOTBC, Nov 25, 08:14:58
    - Theres one or two that can help us get out of a hole (Other Sports) - eddie, Nov 25, 08:55:15
      - Yes althoigh he should have been out for 38 and by that I don't mean it was a half chance (Other Sports) - Jim, Nov 25, 09:18:24
      - Worst test team since c2000 or so maybe earlier? (n/m) (Other Sports) - SimonOTBC, Nov 25, 09:13:12

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