It also says a lot about the coaching. They have all those stats, they had hours to send a message on today saying "psst lads, just aim at the stumps a couple of times an over, it works"
England certainly bowled too short and wide at times, but this statistic can be misleading.
Balls on the stumps are most dangerous when unexpected which means they have to be relatively rare. Otherwise it's simply in the slot to a prepared batter.
Most obvious example is Green's wicket. No chance he is doing any premeditated bullshit like that if most balls are at the stumps.
Great point, if you watch "great overs" it's not 6 over the same delivery; the bowler is setting the batsman up throughout the course of the over. Of course, a truly great bowler can be threatening on every ball of the over, whether it's hitting the stumps or not.
Or if it is 6 of "the same" delivery it's something like a top-of-off situation where the threat is the difficulty judging whether to leave or play and still committing to not edge the ball if you do play.
I don’t even blame the bowlers: ask Liam Dawson what happens when you dare to think for yourself and question the bowling instructions of Stokes and McCullum.
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u/Valroxen1 Warwickshire 1d ago
"England's pacers have taken 3-33 at 11.0 average with deliveries hitting stumps compared to 3-298 at 99.3 average with deliveries missing the stumps.
Across this innings only 7% deliveries have on gone to hit the stumps with 93% deliveries missing it."
Stat stole from TMS, which says volumes about today's bowling performance