Decent five overs from Ireland here but the rest of the innings was played out with consumate ease.
Yardy's sent in as he's quite good at unorthodox shots behind the wicket rather than the big hitting. As proven by the end of the innings its not always big hitting that gets the boundaries.
Didn't prove anything in the end, two batsmen made a run a ball or better while two made a run every other ball. Perhaps the attempt to "do the unorthodox" isn't always the best, sometimes working ones and twos and hitting out in an orthodox way is as important as "unorthodox" if not more.
Then again look at these stats (I know you all luv 'em
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ENG 257/2 (40 overs, rpo 6.42)
ENG 327/8 (50 overs, rpo 6.54)
Just 70 runs off the last 10 overs at 7.00 rpo having started with eight wickets in hand and a run rate of 6.42 already achieved (works out at an increase of an extra six runs for every 10 overs bowled)
I do like this comment on cricinfo :
"So Collingwood and Prior, the two biggest culprits in England's failure to force victory against India, are reunited "
Eng 327/8 (50.0 ov, GP Swann 9*, JF Mooney 4/63) - Innings break | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo