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Strauss wouldn’t have had a worst day!

England had just managed to escape a very evident defeat in the third test match versus South Africa and the Barmy Army would have been hoping for a better show on the first day of the final test match. However, it was their captain, Andrew Strauss who had a particularly bad day, and did nearly every thing wrong to squander away
England's chances. For starters, he chose to bat on what is essentially a typically English, green, swinging pitch. Secondly, he got himself out on the first ball of the match. Yes, Amla did take a great catch but getting out for a duck in the decider can never augur well for a team that isn’t high on experience or confidence. What confuses me is the fact that Sidebottom was chosen over Graham Onions although the latter has had a very successful series. This means that the team is depending a lot on Sidebottom’s ability to swing the ball and yet, when the chance to bowl first was served on a platter, Strauss just turned it down and the entire England team has been shot-out for less than a 200!

4 comments:

  1. I agree to a certain extent but not entirely. Just because strauss got out or the England team got out so cheaply, doesn't mean that the pitch was too conducive for swing bowling or that batting conditions were seriously bad. It is just that the entire team collapsed as a batting unit and Strauss was just the first one to be claimed by Steyn.

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  2. I would agree: just because there has been a batting collapse does not mean that the decision to bat first was totally wrong. So what if Strauss chose to bat first? if the conditions were typically 'english' for bowling, they were equally 'english' for the England batsmen, weren't they??

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  3. further, i don't think that strauss is the right man to lead the England team either in the one-dayers or the T20 matches. He seems like a pure test batsman.

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  4. I agree your part about Strauss not being fit for T20 captaincy but then how many options do the Poms have? Flintoff is injured and Pietersen is no longer favored by the ECB

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