With a baseball score of 5-2 it is very clear which team is on top, but if you follow cricket you have to work things out for yourself. Note immediately that this is different from just about any other sport in the world, because it does not tell you who is winning. (Australians, because they live upside down, will write the same score as 5-236). A cricket score is generally expressed in the form of 236-5, meaning that the team batting has 236 runs and has lost 5 wickets. The most important thing is, of course, the overall score in the game. But, just as not everyone who follows baseball knows how to read a box score, the numbers pumped out by cricket commentators have a jargon of their own and need a little explanation at times. It is also a game with a long history, and much time is spent talking about great players of the past. However, when you've only got three runs to your name and it's the last over before tea, to hole out at deep square leg trying to hit a six is just a horrible dismissal.Like baseball (and gridiron), cricket is a game that is obsessed with statistics. Jos Buttler showed us in Adelaide that he can knuckle down but he wasn't asked to play that kind of innings today. You want your batsmen to be confident enough to play their natural game. Yes, Root made a nice fifty, but you can tell from a batsman's reaction that they know it's a poor shot and he was furious with himself.
Root, Stokes and Buttler played poor shots. We saw the videos of them practicing batting on one leg in the nets - well, they may have been batting on one leg out in the middle, frankly.
We've heard the positive stuff all week about how they're going to play, what they were going to do. If they'd made it through to lunch just two wickets down, which they so almost did, they could have moved the game on a bit.īut after that, the batting was just indescribably awful. You're looking at a score of around 320, maybe, batting first.
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