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This is gonna end up with some mental situation where they run out of time in a minute and will have to come back tomorrow for 1 wicket or about 25 runs!

Robbing all the paying punters of a great finish.
 
Mark Wood has definitely lost a bit of pace. He's going at about 140kph now (87mph) but had been up at around 90-95mph last year.

He's still quick of course, but he's not a tall man so really needed to compensate for the relative lack of bounce with express pace, which he seems to have lost. Maybe it's an issue of spell length and sustainability over a test match / series.
 
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Mark Wood has definitely lost a bit of pace. He's going at about 140kph now (87mph) but had been up at around 90-95mph last year.

He's still quick of course, but he's not a tall man so really needed to compensate for the relative lack of bounce with express pace, which he seems to have lost. Maybe it's an issue of spell length and sustainability over a test match / series.
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The pitch isn't ideal as the surface is rolled a lot and contains less clay then harder pitches found in Australia or the West Indies as a result a lot of the pace and bounce is taken out the ball once it pitches.

The next test is in Visakhapatnam, the pitch there is a bit more balanced so we're likely to play at least one more pace/swing bowler (Jimmy Anderson).
 
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Freddie1980 said:
The pitch isn't ideal as the surface is rolled a lot and contains less clay then harder pitches found in Australia or the West Indies as a result a lot of the pace and bounce is taken out the ball once it pitches.

The next test is in Visakhapatnam, the pitch there is a bit more balanced so we're likely to play at least one more pace/swing bowler (Jimmy Anderson).
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Pace is measured at the point of release I thought, in which case the pitch is irrelevant to his measured speed.
 
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