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Old 28-01-2007, 09:29 PM in reply to Rachael's post starting "I think the point about playing the big..."
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Originally Posted by Rachael
ps. Shahid Afridi has scored two out of every three of his runs through boundaries. I calculate that he's faced about 4535 deliveries.... and off 3859 (85%) of those he's scored... 1742 runs.. suggesting that he returns a dot ball for well over half (and probably near three-quarters) of the deliveries he faces! No wonder his average is just 22.91!
Thats the problem with our batters at the moment, trying to hit fours off everything. They are playing ****** or bust and keep coming up bust! Granted, I think you should have one opener with licence to be agressive from the off (in our case Loye).

The annoying thing is Bell and Colly should be good at working the ball around but even they are struggling to do that.
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