nah he's too loose, will last a couple of series imo
Sure? His batting looks bloody trenchant for an English keeper. If anything, his indifferent glovework's gunna let him down, from what I've seen as an antipodean.superkingdave said:
As for getting rid of triangulars, trying to read the ECB's mind here, they probaby felt they were either "twosided" triangulars (as in 2003 and 2005) or if you had two good teams against us there would be a very big risk of no England in the Final (as in 2001 and 2004). They seem to be going out of fashion outside Australia - I know SL were meant to stage one last year before SA pulled out, but I can't remember the last triangular in a test country outside Australia. (was it in Zimbabwe in 2005?)
100% agree.We should be playing five ODIS gaainst WI and not the seven we will be against India
Maybe that's the thinking, but I think it's flawed. Either way, two lots of five this summer, with a max of 2 dead games each time, would be preferable to 3 and 7. This series is too short to give the newer players a decent run in the side, and obviously 7 is far too long, as any fule knows.
Wouldn't expect anything more from a guy who averages 19 in domestic one day cricket. I mean selecting Yardy in a one day team is akin to selecting Alistair Cook to open in a Twenty20 match.
Pretty decent FC player mind.
Yes, he's a very good first class player with an average of close to 40 and gets big scores. Would thought he'd still be pretty low down for a test call up mind. Shah, Joyce, Bopara would definetely all be ahead of him.
Kabir Ali?
Explained by his exceptional economy-rates in recent years...
You need the basic skills, though, and the place to develop them is at the domestic level. None of the bowlers in the line-up picked these last few games possess said skills.
The "evolution" (it can and I presume will go in the other direction too) is in good death-bowling being a scarce thing at present.
It's unfair to take-out the inadequacies of the death-bowlers on those who've done a good job in the middle. It's death-bowling that needs to be improved. I couldn't care less about getting wickets in the middle of the innings, hardly anyone routinely does that, because you don't need to if your death-bowlers are good enough.
And I'm glad he's finally made one down the order, TBH.
I'm honestly not sure Bopara should be ahead of Yardy, though, TBH. Sure, Bopara actually looks like a batsman far more than Yardy will ever do, but right now Yardy is the more adept at actually scoring the runs, having been doing it for a few seasons now. Bopara, on the other hand, has always blown hot and cold to date.
How Shah has userped him is beyond me. This is now his fourth coming - he's in danger of becoming the next Vikram Solanki.
