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This could be true of many openers although perhaps not to this extreme. Getting put in to bat in foreign conditions is challenging, especially as it will favour the bowlers first up. Still dont rate Crawley mind.This Crazy Crawley Calamity Can’t Continue
And also some words that don't begin with C!
Decent analysis of Crawley as England opener.
'when England lose the toss away from home and are asked to bat first, Crawley averages 11.5. When England wins the toss at home and chooses to bowl first, Crawley averages 44.4'
There will always be a good ball that an opener gets that you can't really do much about. The frustration with Crawley is that he routinely scores single digits and only in the most favourable conditions does he average 40+
His career average is 31.18, home 37.26, away a terrible 26.56. At the age of 28 next month he's not going to improve, time to try somebody new.
Agree with you both. His trigger movement and robotic planting of his feet whilst trying to play the ball off the deck with his eyes is just so poor. He just doesnt have the hand eye coordination to bat like that, you can see how he feels for the ball to come to the bat so often. Matthew Hayden was rigid in his stance and planted the front foot but did it with authority.
WTF is this abomination.
Just makes me dislike it even more, and I didn't ever think that would be possible !
Manufactured trash, coupled with the most ridiculous mascot possible.
WTF is this abomination.
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