yuppie wrote:Aidan11 wrote:Smith not happy with the decision.
Difficult to call on the replays but KP seemed convinced it wasn't out.
The umpire giving the soft dismissal out which meant that the 3rd umpire had to have convincing evidence that the ball touched the ground.
Tough call on the batsman because there was enough evidence to suggest their was doubt. Certainly if the umpire gave it not out and England went to the third umpire it would have stayed not out.
It seemed the umpire was not sure that it carried, but still gave it out.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Didn't think England would win that when I went to sleep, a bowler down and one barely part-time option. Seems the weaker bowling suit did a fine job.
Rashid is a very usefully exotic variation on a fairly familiar menu of staple English bowling skills.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:England can call on Curran, Willey and Ball if Plunkett is out.
Every tour seems to carry a ghost with the squad, someone who used to be around the team, but gradually faded away from the consciousness of the spectators and reporters, becoming a vague presence more sensed than palpable, experienced with a shiver at team meeting, or presumed responsible for the recurrent manifestations of plastic cones in the middle between sessions. Last winter it was Gareth Batty, this time it is the lingering memory of Jake Ball.
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