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Wagner’s dig continues, but this time round things are quiet: just three off it.Kuggeleijn concedes a boundary off his first ball of the over, and Brook then shapes up for a sublime cover drive to add four more. Oh boy does Brook look good.Wagner is up after the drinks break and Brook is onto the pull shot, finding four behind square on the leg side. A couple of deliveries later, Brook backs away to the leg side andAs you do. A staggering shot.
“Morning from a sunny Jakarta,” writes Joel Eley. “About to get dragged to the traditional market kicking and screaming by the wife. At least there is a great coffee shop where I can hopefully follow a cracking century for Root. He is due soon.”Brook pulls one off Wagner and just about manages to get away with it, the ball flying over the fingertips of the leaping man at square leg.Brook is in and Kuggeleijn finds the outside edge, but the ball drops just short off Nicholls at gully.
“Has Joe Root quite adjusted to this brave new world? For the life of me I’d love to see him just play his natural game and get a hundred here.” Hope the show went well! As for Joe’s own performance, he has been quiet of late but I don’t mind him getting all funky with those reverse scoops etc. He’s just so good that he’ll still score big runs playing that way, too – it’s just a matter of time before the score comes.So Wagner’s not been discarded – he’s just changed ends. New Zealand aren’t giving up on the short-ball ploy, just switching up the angles to see if anything changes.
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