Matter of time with Denly innit
Highest opening partnership of the series right now (obviously I have jinxed it)
England’s highest opening partnership of the summer (just overtaken burns & Leach vs. Ireland)
Real quiz.
Yep, and none of you got it right.
And there we go
Excluding burns, openers have faced 20 balls per innings this series
Even that seems a bit high if you’re excluding Burns. I’ve been putting together a great openers in England stats post but I’ll save it for now.
Denly and Warner both have 50s, which have bumped the stats up a bit
Warner has face 154 balls in 8 innings, 94 of them in one innings
Yeah, that Warner fifty was an oddity. Made in probably the most testing conditions he’s batted this series. Was Broad on holiday that day?
Not sure how the Denly experiment got this far to be honest. Another shocker
In a sea of incompetence he was a life raft of mediocrity that he everyone was clinging to
Pretty sure he had about 15 lives in that innings.
Youch, someone should have told him it wasn’t catching practice.
Root is trying to improve on that.
They’re just trying to show how little they care about this match aren’t they? Bowling first on a flat track, picking Mitchell Marsh and dropping Root three times. I fully expect Steve Smith to leave his first ball and get bowled.
Chance of Root not converting a 50 = Chance of Smith converting to a 100
Looks from the post count like everybody has lost interest. Certainly the England batsmen have.
I was trying to follow along but there’s something wrong with my BBC Sport app - it says we’re getting rinsed by Mitchell Marsh?
