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He can't bowl all day though. The balance of the team is wrong.
And that's the value of him. He's still got it. Good thing we didn't send Chris Woakes home when we finally got a track this winter that suited him.
Jimmy was testing that ankle a bit. How good could it all go: Jim pulls up lame, Stokes is still bowling with a cork up his arse, Bess is offering whatever the Indian culinary equivalent of pies is...
Maybe we need to use the rules to find an Indian spinner who might be similarly "qualified".
Bess's over this evening was all over the place. A no ball, two rank half-trackers and a couple of pretty good deliveries.
Yes I'd like to see Stokes bowl spin too. Apparently he turns it square.
Mind you South Africa fielded Imran Tahir...
He's got a busy little action in that he ambles up and then goes through the action really quickly, lots of arms and everything.
When something that is explosive like that gets out of sync, you end up with the full mixture: rank shit, some good balls, wickets taken and runs conceded, which has been his pattern really for 2020 and the winter tours. We even had a no-ball in there for good measure.
There's no discernable changes to the action and delivery, the body angles all look very similar to how he was bowling in South Africa when he took five wickets. Perhaps he should follow the lead of the other spinner in the side and work on the approach to the wicket, get a bit more momentum in there.
Virdi's the one to watch. Moriarty's only played two FC games, both at the Oval, on helpful wickets. The video below is worth a watch as it ably demonstrates some of the problems we have with slow bowling in this country. The fifth wicket down from the start which I think is Nick Gubbins of Middlesex and one of the worst reverse sweep shots in the history of willow on leather.
Sadly we don't have more wickets like Taunton or the Oval.
Pant v pants?
Pant versus two part time spinners and a new ball taken by two tired seamers.
And MV's farting on abotu Bess being ruined by England. Crap, mate. I know he's a Yorkie now but have some objectivity for once. He bowled shite last year in England and got wickets bowling shite against the worst Sri Lankan side since the days pre-Ranatunga and some lucky snags against India.
I think some of the article and the problems of 2019 apply very much now and that the real reason Bess was dropped was less to do with on-field matters than his psychological state off-field.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/dom-bess-reveals-mental-health-struggles-1220194
Looks like another early finish is on the cards.