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Message: [QUOTE="Fitzy, post: 3338163, member: 9881"] I’m not saying I’d like to see them 4 down. Your not understanding at all, there are ways to bat more agressively without throwing your wicket away. We had less than 60 runs after 10 and a good chunk of those overs had fielding restrictions. You do not start protecting an innings the way they played at 2 wickets down with big hitters and bloke who can play that style of cricket far more efficiently yet to come. Your perspective of the approach is that there were no batters left to come. Just because they play a more agressive style doesn’t mean they necessarily get out any earlier or for any less. Peirson, Wildermuth and Bazley are all great T20 batsman that would arguably make our strongest lineup (especially the first 2). They all essentially had to throw there wickets away without getting a look in to try and give us a semi reasonable score. Unacceptable if your 2 previous batters consumed 3/5ths of time at the crease and the score is not a reasonable one. 140 isn’t a reasonable score, it just gives us a bit of dignity. Only way you win is by getting them all out. Look at our bowlers. Never going to happen. Can’t be scoring just above 100 strike rate for a collaborative 72 balls (/12 overs). Whilst I really shouldn’t be promoting the idea of throwing your wicket away I would much rather value that effort in trying to rectify the innings rather than tapping away a very ugly 40 odd and leaving us with little to no chance of winning the game at 140. Only thing I respect about Max Bryant is he doesn’t stick around if it isn’t going his way, he will try and go up the gears. Usually he picks the wrong ball to do it and it is very half assed but would much prefer that than what the other 2 did leaving us no chance to win. You don’t play that style of cricket if your behind the 8 ball from the get go and you have 3 very capable batters left (arguably 3 of our better ones last year) as well as a bowler who is no slouch with the bat in X. I completely get you I’m not fazed by losing at all especially with the side we dished out. But better approaches and a bit of game awareness of what is an acceptable total and whether you need to get going or not can make our summer a lot more enjoyable if we can see some wins on the board. I get they were both a bit scratchy but a bit more of an effort to have a go with wickets in the shed and a especially slow start would have been nice from 2 blokes with International white ball cricket experience. [/QUOTE]

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