Quote Originally Posted by AdiSalisbury View Post
Root not standing up again, not good enough
Feel a bit for him Adi. Fifth highest run scorer in the series and he might as well have been opening given the repeated failures of one or two of the genuine openers.

Can’t help feeling, Smith apart, it’s in the bowling department that we’ve lost it. Think Broad especially, but also Archer, have been excellent but them apart we’ve been short of a threat.

Both teams are reliant on two or three reliable batsmen but the Aussies always seem to have had three or four decent paceman compared to our two and a better spinner too.

Full marks to Leach and Overton for guts with the bat but I fear their bowling isn’t Test class. Sam Curran for the Oval please...really don’t know what he’s done wrong. Such a pity that Wood and Anderson were injured.