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Story Of 2nd Inning ; Australia vs England 2nd ODI 2020.

ShahFaisal Archer and Wokes turned the table on Australia with efficient bowling in mid innings.       The 2nd ODI between England and Australi might not be considered a close and nail-biting game after sometime, but it, surely, was a genuine ODI played by Best odi players, having relatively par sore on the board, with intellegent bowlers from both sides supported by demons in the pitch. It often happens that a low scoring game demands more wit from the captain regarding his bowlers circulations and field setting, and the bowlers have less space to exercise the innovation against batsman. All of this happened on the ground in the second innings when Australia came out to bat- chasing 232 against England.       It seemed quite clear that England were highly expecting from Archer to,both, take early wickets and also tame dynamic batsmen like Warner, Stoinis and Finch who can blow the wind out of oppositions' sails in no time. Archer did succeed in removing Warner and Stoinis , it wa...

FAB FOUR OR SUPERB SEVEN? The dynamics of current Batsmanship Oligarchy..

Babar Azam, KL Rahul and Nicholas Pooran are strongly battering the tag of cricket kings, they contain the same spirit and ablity to become as magnificent as the Fab Four Currently the cricket world is going through a, reasonably, good patch, teams have started winning games in overseas conditions. With T20 CWC around the corner more competition is expected to happen as we have seen so far between India & New zealand and England & S Africa. The up comming events will bring more adventure which would possibly create and introduce much better players.         So Far, the cricketing world in batting is hinging around four major player namely; Kholi , Williamson, Root and Smith. But it's been long since they have collectively occupied the face of cricket batsmanship, most of them have marginalized their self to one format like; Smith who playes good in tests, Root is only better in ODIs, williamson has just started to stamp his authority on T20 cricket. This leaves us wit...