Good posts as always WW. I agree with you 100% on Abir's footwork. Shakib and GJ tend to experience lapses in their batting after a boundary or two, and don't pick up certain deliveries early enough to front-foot in due time, often dragging the ball back into the stumps, or edging it to second slip. Tamim has shot selection issues more than anything else, and the RHB GS's back-footed jumps inside the crease are bound to get him out sooner than the myth of his "staying power" would have us believe. Anyway, both GS and Abir seem focused solely on keeping their places for the upcoming ODI series. Wonderfully selfless, won't you say?
Afterthought, oft repeated: the only way to learn how to stay in the middle, is by actually staying in the middle. More first class cricket please.
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