By the end of the game, it's sloppy and chopped up. It is what it is."And Soldier Field didn't provide a pronounced advantage for the home team this season.If bowlers are Testmatch finishers, then batsmen do the spadework. But until recently England have rarely run up mammoth totals. Watching the way prolific subcontinental batsmen such as Mahela Jayawardene and Rahul Dravid assembled their scores, they realised the secret was to keep playing the same way throughout an innings, rather than seek to go through the gears and finally dominate the bowlers.

Cundiff does not have the range of Akers, who has made 24 of 47 attempts from 50plus yards, including an NFLrecordtying 63yarder in Week 1. Cundiff is 5of19 from at least 50 yards and has missed 9 of his past 10 attempts from that distance. He has made 81.2 percent of his attempts (134 of 165) from inside 50 yards..Please feel free to submit your comments. We expect our readers to engage in lively, yet civil discourse. I