Ed Gamble

It's bad planning to, to, to give your bowlers that little opportunity to refresh and, and come back and, and yes, save, save the game again.

Pull, pull, pull the rabbit out of the hat.

The only thing I'd say about that is that, yes, I understand that, but Stokes does have the luxury of doing it later on.

they've set this tone of the batsmen to go out there and be positive and smack it about.

It is not the first time by a long chalk that that has failed and Stokes has gone out there and played this very defensive sort of innings.

Now, would he do that if he was batting at number three, say?

I'm not saying he should bat number three, but I'm just saying that the batsmen who go in before it are expected and have been expected to go out there and seize the game by the scuffle, go out and attack the bowling.

And when it's gone wrong, then Stokes has played like this.

Well, that's nice for him to be able to do that.

Some of those up ahead of him have not been able to do that.

It was a bit of a reverse when Daryl Jeffrey was playing.

He'd block it for hours and those lower down the order, Ian Botham would have to go out there and smack it about to try and get up the run rate and so on.

And that's what Ian Botham would say anyway.

So, yeah, I mean, I admire the way that he's played.

He's shown a lot of discipline and a lot of determination.

But is that the message that the other players could have gone out there with at the start of the innings?

That is Ed Campbell, my name is James A. Cousins.

Together, we own a dream.

And every single year, every single year?

What do you leave out for Santa?