Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
Agree completely - it's my age I suppose, but the modern philosophy seems to be that building an innings gradually is uncool somehow, better to go out and "express yourself" and then get your stumps knocked out after scoring a flashy 20 off fifteen balls.
The longer forms of cricket had been played a certain way for well over one hundred years, but lately the thinking that this has been based on has been overtaken by the theory that sides "move the game forward quickly" or try to hit their way out of trouble when they are under pressure.
It's the usual thing that there is a middle way between the two extremes (in this case, a typical Geoff Boycott innings and the sort of absolutely mad shot Mark Wallace played to get out to yesterday) which is the right way to go, but Glamorgan have got themselves into a rut whereby they score at something like four an over, yet struggle to bat more than fifty overs.
The batsmen who were at the crease before Carson and Morgan got together yesterday should be feeling embarrassed after seeing two youngsters with about ten first class matches between them battle retrieve the mess they had created, but, they never play as if the lessons of previous failures have been learned, so I doubt it if they will - they'll no doubt go out and "express themselves" again in the second innings when we'll be something like 80-6 off about twenty overs.