A good player is able to take a single from even a good ball. The problem with JO is that he struggles to play the spinners. England had a defensive fielding set for Ashley Giles. They had a long off and a long on; no short mid off and short mid on. This means singles were there to be taken but he was consistantly hitting the ball in square leg even though he was trying to place the ball through mid wicket. That was indicative of the fact that he's a good player of spin. With all due respect to Giles he isn't anywhere near the quality left arm spinners like vettori or Raffique so the fact that JO struggled against him further justifies my point. To me his 81 did save us but any other batsman would have simply score much more runs. Even after he was settle he kept on missing the ball. I have always believed that JO is less than an average player who doesn't possess much skills but because of his tenacity is able to stay in the crease.
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