http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Flower-c44362 admits batting as the weak link – Cricket News Update
With the English suffering their fifth loss of the tour, coach, Andy Flower admitted that his inexperience batting line-up could not cope with the turning ball against their opposition.
The coach was not impressed with the batting performances, which throughout the course of the series failed to read the spin of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RA-Jadeja-c2238. The Men In Blue duo was impeccable, making full use of home conditions, troubling the
opponents batters at will.
The final ODI witness a similar chain of events maintained by the Indian spinners, which led to the Poms surrendering on 176.Chasing a target of 272, they tourists were on track to get their elusive win, however, a sudden collapse saw them losing 10 wickets
for 47, after the opening paring had put on 129.
Again Ashwin-Jadeja partnership blossomed, with the pair sharing seven wickets between them, and Jadeja consequently named the Player of the Match.
Flower recognized the inability of his batters to play the turning ball, which effectively created the added pressure.
"Our skills weren't good enough and our handling of the pressure wasn't good enough," he said. "We obviously haven't got the players into a good enough state to deal with the challenges of playing spin, judging length and moving feet.”
However, the head coach was keen to praise his bowlers, who he feels gave a good account under testing sub-continent conditions. With the absence of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ST-Finn-c2566 were assigned the duty of leading the attack.
Finn’s performances were a few positive, which came out of the One Day series, with the pacer taking 8 wickets in five outings. Flower sympathized with his bowling contingent and felt that the outcome would have been different if they were provided more
support from the batters.
"I think our bowling side has shown glimpses of skill and if there'd been reasonable totals on the board they would have been better at defending them. But unfortunately the bowlers have had to bowl to very attacking fields all the time because that was
the only way to win because of our under-par totals," added Flower.
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