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Orthodoxy is not a dirty word: Konstas' adjustment sees youngster bat like a real opener
Gerard Whateley • February 20th, 2025 12:22 pm
Leave. Leave. Block. Leave. Block. Block. Block.
You won’t see it on TikTok, but what a beautiful sight. The first seven balls of Sam Konstas' second innings against Scott Boland yesterday.
The teenage opener who holds us all enthralled batted without his stunt double on Day 2 at the SCG.
Not a ramp, reverse or lap on show.
We told the Gen Z member of our team Konstas was 1 run from 22 balls... he was aghast: “What, was he missing them”.
No Ollie, he was batting like a real opener… that’s the generational divide.
16 blocks and 11 leaves. Konstas saw off the first spell from Boland without scoring – a 17-ball duel of quality bowling and applied, disciplined batting. That’s the stuff.
Whether Konstas made the adjustment himself or whether the intervention came it was reassuring and conventional.
He didn’t get rewarded for the grind… and that was a shame… but he gave himself a chance.
Boland got him slashing in the air to point for 17 – but it was 66 minutes well spent.
Orthodoxy is not a dirty word.
He’ll bat next in a Shield game on March 6. We’ll all be watching.
