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Carse justifies England faith as the archetypal bold pick
The Independent
|December 02, 2024
If you won a boxing match after your opponent continually punched themselves in the face, how much credit can you take?
England are one-nil up against New Zealand. They played well, deserved it, and have two enormous bright spots in the emergence of Brydon Carse and Jacob Bethell. But wow, New Zealand were bad. A team famed for their competence, coming off the back of a historic series victory against India, dropped the ball. Eight times.
From a result-based perspective, it is impossible to look beyond this as a key factor in England’s victory. The visitors were 45 for three when Harry Brook arrived at the crease and in trouble. Brook went on to make 171 and was dropped five times along the way. Three of those occasions came before he reached 60. According to statistics company CricViz, which has ball-tracking data going back to 2006, only on one other occasion in the previous 18 years has a player been dropped five times in an innings: Stuart Broad in 2009. The Kiwis were making history again, this time the bad kind.But you can only beat what’s put in front of you and England cannot be blamed for capitalising on their opponents’ generosity, with Carse, in particular, impressing.
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