Fielding is an attitude, said Shane Warne often. Insofar as he could sometimes be tempting to conclude that Shane Warne did not have 37 different nuggets of well -struck cricket wisdom, he just said the same nugget of cricket wisdom well struck 37 times. But Warne was, of course, well, because he was on all things of cricket, as you can expect any deluge of independent genius leg, poker game, bikini-so-so-so.
In relation: England suffers from the late Zak Crawley Blow in the pursuit of 374 to win the fifth test and the India series
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What attitude was expressed by the implementation of England on the third day of this final test in fine Margins, when India was heading for a 373 advance? What type of atmosphere, aura, the energy is projected by a unit that has lost a total of six second -round catches in India at the Oval, the most by a team from England for almost 20 years?
To judge by the current range of Go-Tos, the obvious choices vary between super cool, jocular moralization and inexplicably piss. Maybe England was just bored by rehearsal. In the absence of Chris Woakes, Ollie Pope spent almost all the first two sessions on rotation of his three large right arm pass, in what was surely the attacks of Bowling most in England of the Samey England of all time, death by Bang-it-in.
For long periods, this induced a kind of dogs at the end of the summer bored. It was at least a chance to feel in real time the exact meaning of the English word “Overton”, which describes a state of glass and satisfied stashed melancholy by looking at excessive quantities of rapid wood medium was a man in a visible black nylon subvider. As in, At 2 p.m., the entire oval crowd languid in a state of depth Overton.
He sometimes felt in this test as if Jamie Overton had been chosen only for his threat to lightning points on the ground, like a porter or a bailiff assistant. But he found a little rhythm before tea and seemed to swing the ball more than anyone. Otherwise, it was tempting to wonder if the pope could opt for plan B: Harry Brook Bowling Lobs, with an added shame of the inner field. “Are you going to build a third -rounded third -round advance against this?”
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In the event that the drop of drops provided a punctuation in the afternoon while India went to 396 all. The final list started the day before and reads like that.
4.5 Overs Yashasvi Jaiswal fell by Brook off Gus Atkinson. Bordered, second shift, travel, burst the reverse cup. Fall assessment: medium.
12.2 Overs Jaiswal off Josh Tongue, fell by Liam Dawson. Hard flat hook which traveled 40 meters directly on the Dawson collarbone. Gout evaluation: Lost lost it in the lights. Benign. With village notes.
14.3 Overs Sai Sudharsan fell by Zak Crawley off Overton. Third shift, wide, good height, adorned. Fall evaluation: bad regulations.
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25.3 Overs Akash Deep, Crawley again, out of tongue, plunging to his left, strikes him on the wrist. Gout evaluation: Oh FFS.
53.4 Overs Karun Nair Off Overton by Brook in the second shift. Difficult, Crawley Super-Manning, low, little out of your fingers. Evaluation of the fall: I could go home.
57.4 Overs Jaiswal fell Overton by Ben Duckett to Leg Gully, at the end of the finger, full of stretching. Put it for this purpose: the smallest man in England. Deposit assessment: hold me, I’m cold. So … so cold.
The first of the Misses on Saturday set the tone for what followed, Spur for half a fascinating half-century of Nightwatchman. The combined cost of the six was 127 points. The last of them was the 20th in the England series.
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Between Jaiswal, we gave space to compile a assured century. This was defined by its super resistant square cut, which goes from the magnificently carved elevator, arising his body in an S and deviating the shifts and sometimes the rope; And the ovens and the two most violent saber and two. Deep kept him company, standing standing and pleasure like a tribute crawley act. The last time he had exceeded seven years was December 2024 in Brisbane.
Shubman Gill briefly briefly. His dismissal, as in the first rounds, seemed to be a function of being too good to mark races, dangerously in good shape, too perfect, vertical, balletic for this world. Gill was LBW playing through a right and examined because it seemed impossible that he had not really struck him.
England was held on the task, but was Walope on the rear foot by the superb 39-ball 50 of Washington Sundar, Sundar taking the abandonment of the equation by lifting short stuff with the new ball in the crowd. Why did it happen? We are always talking about “bad grounds to see”. But this was not in particular the case here. You can’t do that, well Stokes! It was on a dark day in the oval. Seemed ok.
We also know that Nobody wants to drop a catch. Is it useful? No one wants Nick to WETHING behind, or on average 29.9 as a surgery. Cricket is essentially made of things that no one wants to do. Remove them and what you have left is: no cricket.
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But England is less concentrated in the field without stokes. This bristling with ginger with coverage makes a difference, real and intangible. There were other moments of negligence. Jamie Smith had to perform a rhythmic gymnastics routine behind the stumps. Overton Bowling outside the stump with five fields of fields on the side of the leg. Is the problem here a drop?
In addition, England looks naturally tired. It is an neglected aspect of the modern calendar that, although five series of tests have always occurred, players often do it now with zero cricket on each side, a sudden burst of brain taking place between rest periods. The calendar is all year round. The levels of concentration, intensity and load come and go. The players are rested, then hammered. No one really knows what the effects of this are on the body, tendons and mental reserves.
England has taken the final Indian counter here in double field player without Drop, Pope and Crawley turning together under the Hoick Skyés of Sundar, stretching her hand and taking her, in a way, in their 20 fingers combined. There will be a result now with two days to play and England needed 324 points to win with nine counters to play. At the end of Saturday, these 127 additional races looked like a product of gravity, fatigue and wear. In addition, it must be said, guaranteed to a large but deeply exhausting.
