Originally Posted by Bhaveshgor:
“yeah especially with the style of play this England team play at, being aggressive means you need 2 solid batsman in the team so you can at least bat 50 overs at all times.
Although quite funny reading twitter now with everyone attacking england style of play considering the same people were probably asking for this 4-5 months ago.
Nothing wrong with the way england play they just need to find the perfect balance between having the best batting line up and having loads of bowling options.”
i was one of the people who wanted us to be much more positive and even if we lose today and lose the series i am still happier than i was this time last year
i just think we would have a better balance with the 2 aggressive guys opening and root/taylor behind them
if we get off to a flyer we promote the likes of morgan, stokes, buttler up the order
if we lose a couple of wickets we have 2 guys in root and taylor who are both capable of "anchoring" the innings , and i dont mean in a jonathon trott way as both can do that without really being reckless and can keep the scoring rate reasonable whilst doing it
having said that i assume morgan is meant to be playing the role of that second accumulator and him hardly making a run has exposed the hit and miss nature of the middle order