Stop knocking Saleh!
Poor guy was made to go out and open the innings in failing lights and got a good short delivery from Harmison. Its not like he is getting out playing wild drives at balls wide outside the off-stump. If batsmen get out to good deliveries, thats fine, as long as they don't throw their wickets away.
We are too ficke as fans. After every innings, we make some sort of judgement about our players, most of the time without even watching the game. Last night, everyone was saying how ordinary Enamul Huq Jnr is. Today he took 2 wickets for 30 runs in 20 overs!! Thats fantastic bowling, and one of his victims was Trescothick!
Anyway, I thought England would be something like 450 for 7 or 8 at the end of the third day. Instead we bowled them out for 295! Thats a super performance. On the day, we took 10 wickets for 184 runs! How brilliant is that? Now if we can tough it out tomorrow, try to bat for most of the day, this game could be very intereting indeed. Especially if we can drag it to the fifth day and have some runs to defend. This wicket is already starting to misbehave. On the fifth day, anything is possible!
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