The key thing is breaking those partnerships that we allowed to build, especially Langer and Hayden. Whilst it doesn't really matter which field you set to Hayden (he copes with most things except the short lifting ball); with Langer the right field will prevent him scoring and frustrate him. Block off those little legside clips out of the body with a short square leg and leg gully. Put a man on the drive. Attack him. Put men around him and force the aerial route.
With Ponting, whilst an excellent bat, he does play some unorthodox strokes and has a tendency to shuffle across the stumps. This makes him a likely candidate for LBW early on. We need a bowler that can produce decent in swinging yorkers. Freddie can do this but doesn't do it often enough for fear of conceding legside runs.
Break those top 3 up and we are laughing. We need to rotate the bowling, make surprise changes, get a slow bowler to hold an end up whilst we target the weak links. We need attacking fields that force batsmen to get under the ball. On the whole our fielding is pretty tight but it just needs to show disrespect to their batters. Grant them the respect that we did in the first test and we have nobody saving one and everyone on the rope which gives them the chances for quick singles and uppish drives.
The Aussies have a decent batting lineup but we have destroyed it before with tactical play and we can do it again.
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Nice to see an "Ashes" blog..!
The way Indians are losing.., i am not interested in seeing cricket anymore.
I watched most of the SA v India match and I have to say I was disapointed with India's bowling especially as they had SA on the ropes...I reckon you will bounce back though. You certainly have the right players...good luck & Thanks
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