Opinion: What's the Yorkshire Root for red ball cricket?
23.06.26, 12:27 Updated 24.06.26, 14:28 4 Minute Read
Jonathan Doidge
The first thing to say is that every team is capable of a few off days and one of the joys of sport is its unpredictability. That’s what people say, at least until their team comes out on the wrong end of an upset!
In such times, it’s always tempting to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I put up this message on X at the end of day two and it really was no surprise that it (or rather the team) received a negative response given the state of the match at that point.
In his post-match interview, head coach Anthony McGrath used the word "baffling" and talked about the team’s mentality, suggesting that when they get an opportunity they are sometimes too ‘scared’ to take it (he qualified that by saying it might not be the correct expression).
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