Former England Cricketer Sir Geoffrey Boycott has encouraged the English team to consider moving Dawid Malan to the top order. The boycott considered England’s 275-run loss in the 2nd Ashes Test in Adelaide and assumed they needed wholesale changes to participate contest with Australia.
England’s batting unit let them down for the 4th time on the trot in this tour as Australia journeyed another step towards Ashes glory. The visitors began Day 5 on 82-4, chasing 468 and making only 192 replies. The competition Day Test has become a must-win Test for them.
In his column for the Telegraph, Sir Geoffrey Boycott declared that Dawid Malan’s technique suits the Australian decks and England’s top-order must carry out. Criticizing the occupant openers in Rory Burns as well as Haseeb Hameed, Boycott wrote:
“England should consider opening with Dawid Malan. His technique of staying back, judging what to leave, and playing straight is good. It is important for team morale and achieving big totals; you should have successful opening bats. It’s time we accepted our batsmen are not good enough. The two openers are walking wickets, and the Aussie bowlers are queuing up to get at them.”
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The 81-year-old also experiences a case for Joe Root batting at No. 3 as England has been unsuccessful gloriously to put pressure on Australia. The cricketer-turned-commentator mention in this regard:
“It’s not ideal, but Joe Root at some stage may have to bat at three. He doesn’t like it, and I agree it is not best asking your star batsman to move from his favorite number four spot. England has to do something different because they are not scoring enough runs to put Australia under any sort of sc pressure.”
Rory Burns, as well as Haseeb Hameed, indeed have had a terrible time in this Ashes series thus far. The duo’s maximum stand has been 23 in the 4th innings, including 3-single-figure partnerships. The same has put massive force on the English middle-order batters.
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