Originally Posted by Aaron_Silver:
“I missed most of today's play as I had to work, was the bowling really as bad as some are saying?”
for me they bowled too short for too long and basically wasted the new ball
at risk of getting flamed for being "anti-cook", i agree with the earlier comment about cook being a "by the numbers" captain. it looked to me today they had a plan of bowling how you would usually bowl at edgbaston rather than taking account of the fact this pitch is a bit slower than normal so needed the bowlers to bowl a fuller length.
what i can never work out is why it takes them so long to amend plans when its obvious that plan A isn't working, or that they didn't learn from watching pakistan bowl that bowling back of a length might not be the way to go.
no knee-jerk reactions here, as others have said broad and anderson have shown they are our best bowlers and can have a bad day, same can be said for waokes after the summer he has had even tho he will be disappointed he had it on his home ground. i said before the game i wouldn't have picked finn and apart from the odd delivery today i'm not sure anyone could really justify his inclusion.
it is a little bit of a worry how sloppy england can get in the field when things aren't going their way as well.
got to give credit to pakistan tho, after a big loss in the last game, and then losing a wicket in their very first over today, they could have been feeling the pressure but it was a cracking partnership from ali and sami to get control of the game.