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It's hard to gauge...
Were they motivated to actually try given there was no way in hell Afganistan were going to get anywhere close to our total? They may just have been going through the motions and avoiding injury.
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It’s a flat track with little for the bowlers, a bit concerned that we dropped some straightforward catches.
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400, against the worst team in the tournament on a flat track, 4th game in a fairly long tournament - why would you kill yourself trying to skittle them for sub 150. Archer and Wood nearly knocked 3 of them out so they weren't holding back and we dropped a couple of dollies. No issues with how we bowled today and I like having Moeen and Rashid bowling together.
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@mespilus
Any concerns over the inability of the English bowling attack to dismiss the Afghans quicker?
Neither pace, nor swing/seam, nor spin seems to have posed any real threat to the Afghan batsmen.
Is getting tonked for 5+ an over regarded as 'containing' in modern ODIs?