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Originally Posted by GiggsysGirl
Ok so yeah they effectively beat us by an innings...but if you look at the actual scorecard, apart from Prince's 149 and De Villiers' 174 no other RSA batsman made more than 44.
So tecnically, if you discount those two...the top scoring batsmen were Cook and Broad.
I feel better now.
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Why couldn't our specialist top order batsmen apply themselves in a similar manner to Broad and Anderson though? It irritates the crap out of me when we just give our wickets away like that
Players like Bell, Vaughan and Straus are keeping their places by putting in one big innings, quashing reports they should be dropped, then putting together a succession of failures. Collingwood has bailed out the England top order on many an occasion, but because he hasn't had that get out innings for a while, he's dropped. I don't disagree with him being left out if he isn't performing, but I don't think we're as ruthless with the batsmen higher up the order