Its the sort of pitch where if you concentrate and pick the balls to go at

you can score runs but if you play a stupid shot you will get out as there is just enough movement there for the bowlers.

As well as we bowled yesterday several of the Aussie wickets were due to them playing expansive shots at the wrong balls and in terms of our 3 wickets two were stupid shots and Cook was rather unlucky. Its not a 13 wickets in a day's play type of pitch. What we therefore need to do today is go back to playing a bit of old fashioned test cricket for a couple of sessions, leave a lot of balls outside off stump and accumulate runs at 2-3 an over whilst not losing too many wickets. Then, when/if we have got ourselves 150 ahead we can cut loose.

I fancy us to get around 350. The Aussies will bat better second time around and we will end up chasing around 150.

Posted By: Jim, Jul 30, 08:27:44