Wow, what a game.
Ben Stokes is the man. Shows he is England's most valuable player at the moment.
Been looking at the stats as always, and Stokes, after an average First TEST (a Z-score of basically 0...the average player), has outperformed in TEST 2 (Z-Score of 2.78) and this TEST (Z-Score of 2.62)
For Australia, Labuschagne has been a good addition to the team (Z-Score 2.89) and Warner finally had a good game (z-score 0.62) after a couple of shockers.
In the bowling stakes, again, Archer is proving to be a handful. In two tests, he has had Z-Scores of 1.1 (in the 2nd Test), and 1.95 (in this one). Already 13 wickets for the series...
Bowling for Australia...Hazlewood (z-scores of 0.11, 1.35) is certainly a better option than Siddle (z-scores of 0.26, 0.09). Siddle will always give you an average performance, but he doesn't have the capability to out perform. Cummins (z-scores of 1.99, 1.44, -0.09) had his first average game after blowing England away in the first 2 tests. Pattinson is a question at the moment. I don't think he has done enough (z-scores of -0.07, 0.44). I think the best bowling attack is yet to be released. For me, it is Cummins, Hazlewood and Stark, with Lyon as the spinner. They should go with that attack in the 4th TEST.
But the stats don't show the fact that Australia received a shocking LBW decision...amazing how little decisions can have big impacts...
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