*Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

[wpdavid]

Burns injured during a football match and may miss the test, or even the rest of the ****ing series.
You couldn't make it up.

 

[Arachnodouche]

^Yeah this keep happening doesn't it? Train for what you're paid to do ffs.

 

[honestbharani]

Why do cricketers keep playing football before games as warm up? I wonder if the Man U gentlemen play a game of cricket to warm up.

 

[Tom Flint]

Ruled out for the series

 

[Starfighter]

What a farce. Someone should make a compendium of pre-match-training football injuries.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

We deserve to lose 4-0, bunch of ******s allowing football after the Bairstow incident. Hopefully a crushing defeat will see Root sacked.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

someone to book Orlando Stadium and arrange a football match, Proteas vs England

 

[Neptune]

Absolute travesty of a tour.

 

[theegyptian]

lol. wonder who gets called up next?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

lol. wonder who gets called up next?

Jennings

By all accounts he is going to Sri Lanka anyway.

 

[Tom Flint]

Crawley will open right?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Wow that's a huge loss. If he had kept scoring runs for the rest of the series I wonder if the captain's armband was a possibility for later in the year.

 

[fredfertang]

A soccer team near Oxford recently went in at half time 8-0 down against their local rivals, got changed and went home - wonder if Chris Silverwood has read that story

 

[hazsa19]

Approaching 2006/7 level of shambles.

 

[hazsa19]

Jennings

By all accounts he is going to Sri Lanka anyway.

Any excuse to keep Bairstow in the side.

 

[Woodster]

Disappointing to lose Burns when he was showing real potential in securing one of the openers spots. Despite not being particularly orthodox or pleasing on the eye he’s shown excellent temperament and discipline and has scored runs on a fairly consistent basis, will be a loss for sure.

 

[Gnske]

Burns injured during a football match and may miss the test, or even the rest of the ****ing series.
You couldn't make it up.

Amazing.

He isn't ACTUALLY being replaced by Keaton Jennings though is he, like people in the thread are saying? Because that would be laughably stupid.

 

[Father Time]

Didn’t see the first Test. Doesn’t sound like Archer will play. A chance for Mark Wood to back up his pacy performance from the Caribbean? I desperately hope Bairstow isn’t picked in place of Zak Crawley. Looks like it’s going to be.....

Sibley
Crawley
Denly
Root
Stokes
Pope
Buttler
Bess
Wood
Broad
Anderson

 

[Neptune]

Don’t think Mark Wood is fit to play unfortunately.

 

[Daemon]

Didn’t see the first Test. Doesn’t sound like Archer will play. A chance for Mark Wood to back up his pacy performance from the Caribbean? I desperately hope Bairstow isn’t picked in place of Zak Crawley. Looks like it’s going to be.....

Sibley
Crawley
Denly
Root
Stokes
Pope
Buttler
Bess
Wood
Broad
Anderson

Why would you drop Curran