Skipper Root would put the Aussies in again, says Bayliss
Trevor Bayliss defended Joe root’s decision to bowl first after a dismal day left england reeling in adelaide. When rain brought an early end to play in the day-nighter, england had reached 29-1 following the loss of Mark stoneman, leaving them 413 runs behind.
But Bayliss claimed that,, given the opportunity,tunity, root would makee the same call again at the toss. ‘ He wouldn’t’t do anything different,’ - the england coach said.
‘it’s well documented that one of our challenges is taking wickets on flatter wickets.. Joe wanted to givee our guys the bestest opportunity to takeke 20 wickets. on this occasionccasion it didn’t work out — it’it’s jjustt the game of cricket.
‘it certainly wasn’t an easy decision. Joe thought our best opportunity was to bowl first on a fresh wicket. We bowled pretty well and didn’t get the rewards we thought we deserved.’
and Bayliss denied his side had a pre-arranged plan to snap back at the chirping aussies, after stuart Broad leaned into the face of Peter Handscomb following his dismissal and delivered a send-off. ‘it’s redblooded young males competing. i think most of the time it’s fairly lightlight-hearted,’hearte Bayliss said. Under lights, Mitchell starc summed up the diffdifference between the twtwo attacks by bowling int the fastest ball of the Test with his ffirst delivery, and later removed stoneman. Bayliss said: ‘it’s certainly well documented that they hahave three guys that are quicker than ours. it doesn’tdoe mean they are impossibleimpossib to play. it doesn’t matter how quick you are — if you bowl straight batsmen can take advantage of it.’ shaun Marsh could be satisfied with his return to the australian team, aged 34, after his fifth Test century followed a 50 in Brisbane. ‘i’m just really happy i’ve got this last chance, and with how it’s going,’ said Marsh, the son of former Test opener Geoff.