BG!
Root is not 'reasonably good'. He is the 4th best batsman in the world. Burns is 'reasonably good'.
Next you'll be telling us Archer can 'bowl decent enough'.
Obviously I don't wanna endlessly argue over these things, but I would actually say dirt is very similar to sandpaper.
Different strokes.
Smith gone now.
Massive test for the openers.
He got caught (his players got caught).
Broad and Anderson in 2010-
Atherton was also fined for rubbing dirt into the ball, as I am sure you know.
What the three Aussies did was daft as a brush, but that kind of cheating has been going on for ages.
He might be thick as shit but he's an...