festa5
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Who'd be a cricket coach at any other test side right now? They'll all be watching with interest. Is this going to be the new way to play test match cricket or will someone eventually find it out a bit?
You don't want to be too late to the party (like England and one day cricket) but hard to change, particularly if you're currently successful. In a way was easy for England to rip it up and start again, we were absolutely dire, particularly at batting and had nothing to lose.
Probably a lot of food for thought for Australia, good to sow a seed of doubt into their minds/preparation. Certainly not going to be anything like the challenge they were expecting 12 months ago!
I think this approach (or similar) will become the norm personally. Batting has evolved massively over the last decade, but seems test cricket is still catching onto that fact. There aren't many players like Alistair Cook around these days.
You don't want to be too late to the party (like England and one day cricket) but hard to change, particularly if you're currently successful. In a way was easy for England to rip it up and start again, we were absolutely dire, particularly at batting and had nothing to lose.
Probably a lot of food for thought for Australia, good to sow a seed of doubt into their minds/preparation. Certainly not going to be anything like the challenge they were expecting 12 months ago!
I think this approach (or similar) will become the norm personally. Batting has evolved massively over the last decade, but seems test cricket is still catching onto that fact. There aren't many players like Alistair Cook around these days.