Pup wanted to either make England go for it and lose wickets or block and be humiliated in the media. He's just a kerr-azy captain who risks all kind of shizzle, so they call him a maverick genius, and it focusses people away from his utter abject cowardice in the batting ('erm, I might just go in at 7 this time').
As it was, they got stuffed and Pup was lucky the light went early enough to save his blushes.
Pup wanted to either make England go for it and lose wickets or block and be humiliated in the media. He's just a kerr-azy captain who risks all kind of shizzle, so they call him a maverick genius, and it focusses people away from his utter abject cowardice in the batting ('erm, I might just go in at 7 this time').
As it was, they got stuffed and Pup was lucky the light went early enough to save his blushes.