Stuart Broad
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You have to be incredibly talented.
It's fine when Mitchell Stark's doing it because you've got the pace to work with.
So the only play there, if you decide, and Joe Root came out and said, five overs to the new ball, try and get as many runs as we can before...
you step inside and you whack it with all your power muscles over the leg side and clear the ropes.
That seems to be the only sensible play.
So that was terrible, terrible cricket.
And maybe that's just Jamie Smith not understanding the game.
That's the frustration that's been within the media, I suppose, and the supporters now,
for in the big series, isn't it?
Because ultimately you can't talk a good game and then deliver what England have delivered.
So I have no doubt there will be conversations about adapting the style.
And actually, if there's any
sort of face of English cricket batting going forward.
Yes, of course, we've got Joe Root, we've got Harry Brooke, but the way Jacob Bethel has played here at the SCG, you watch the highlights and he's hit through mid-wicket, he's cut, he's driven, but outside of those highlights you'll see with his boundaries, he's left the ball, he's on 99 for 20 minutes, I mean, leaving balls outside of somebody, defended solid.
That was a proper test match innings that had Ricky Ponting purring.
You know, that's test match batting and that...
To me, the accountability is not for a coach to come up to me and tell me off or raise his voice.
That is a teammate thing.
It's a teammate thing.
If I'm bowling a bad spell and not putting in, Jimmy Hansen would come up to me and go, poor Eli, your knees are not firing up.