bigfluffylemon wrote:I actually thought Harris looked ok technically for the first part of his innings. But he was definitely sloppy for that dismissal.
He wanted to go after Ashwin, it seemed. He went to him, and although he caught one and put it over the bowlers head, a coupe of other times he was loose. And that short ball that flew between slip and gully, well it depends on how you look at it; the commentators thought he guided it, I thought he was in an awful position to that ball and was lucky he reacted late to tilt the bat. Id certainly be throwing in a few short balls straight up to him in the second innings.
For the first time i feel we have actually improved in pace attack department. A lot of credit has to go to the administration for setting up NCA, having world renowned pace bowlers as coaches and the management. The fast bowling culture has been caught up in India now which is very evident not only from the number of pace bowlers in our domestic and international teams bowling consistently over 140 kph.
Its good to see. Mohammed Shami must be the most unlucky bowler I have seen in a while. He got numerous drops in England, and in all the tests he played he deserved far more wickets; he remained wicketless today, that last over he had Travis Head beaten all heads up three times.
Must smash mirrors as a hobby.