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And just like that, the word ‘otiose’ appeared in an OBO for the first time. I think they’ll take Cox as much as the spare batsman as the back-up keeper. Mind you, second guessing Baz, Ben and Bob is a fool’s errand. As for the spinners, I think they would definitely do that if they were going to, say, Bangladesh, but seamers usually play quite a big part in Pakistan.
“We’ve gone from one Surrey opener who tried to hit everything on the legside to another in Dan Lawrence,” says Gary Naylor. “It’s not going to work second time round either is it?” England’s new white-ball coach is reportedly at today’s game, and Duckett tries to impress him by playing two spectacular shots for four – the first was blasted over extra cover on the run, the second driven over wide mid-off. Just outstanding batting.Duckett is in Sri Lanka’s heads. They only have two slips, can’t decide where to bowl to him and for the moment look like a team on the defensive.
Dan Lawrence is on his home ground but there’s nothing comforting about these conditions. He’s effectively an alien, opening the batting against the moving ball, and he is again beaten when he tries to work Vishwa to leg. “You are going to have a tough time deciphering which Fernando bowled and which Mendis took the catch,” writes Krishnamoorthy V. “Best of luck with that. As if the existing dread of a typo is not daunting enough, another layer of complexity has been added to your tasks.”
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