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aussie
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Am not really, him being a regular 12th man unfortunately doesn't make him the next best candidate at all. If ENG are going to pick 4 quicks ATM it should be Freddie/Sidebottom/Anderson/Jones with immeditate back-up from Harmison & Hoggard.
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Commentators talking about Warne commenting on Panesar being incapable of taking wickets when the pitch doesn't turn. Atherton suggests that Panesar talk to Warne on how to improve his performance on such pitches. Fundamentally there are several things wrong with that suggestion.
jammay123
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mainly him being nowhere near as good as warne.
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Mainly him being a fingerspinner and thus guaranteed to never be as good as Warne on pitches that don't turn.
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Something about those left-handed middle order batsmen who aren't too bothered about their scoring rate.
BoyBrumby
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Looking terminal, I'm afraid. Fair play to Prince tho; super knock in the circumstances.
Goughy
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I hope it pisses down for 2 days and we can forget this Test ever hapened. I still want resignations.
Just to show what I think of the composition, I think the selectors should be investigated for matchfixing. I dont think they are guilty but to select a proven failed concept, have the longest tail in Test cricket and pick a nobody ahead of at least half a dozen more likely candidates means the question needs to be asked.
Just to show what I think of the composition, I think the selectors should be investigated for matchfixing. I dont think they are guilty but to select a proven failed concept, have the longest tail in Test cricket and pick a nobody ahead of at least half a dozen more likely candidates means the question needs to be asked.
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wpdavid
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Never mind resignations: a couple of lynchings pour encourager les autres is what's really needed.
Beyond that, Prince once again has given our boys an object lesson in test match batting. Are they smart enough to learn from him? Are they buggery, I suspect.
As for the rain, I have mixed emotions. Part of me prefers us not to lose and would welcome it. The other part thinks our selectors & captain need to be thoroughly ground into the Headingley turf if any iof this is going to be taken on board.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
If lessons were really learned in defeat we'd be world champions by now.
Pattinson is an awful selection, not only inasmuch as he's been rushed into our test sqaud with umseemly haste under what one must assume to be a flag of convenience as Nasser mentioned his dad saying he considered himself to be a "proud Aussie", but also as a slap in the mush to other more experience bowlers who might reasonably have considered themselves to be above him in the pecking order (Hoggard, Jones, Tremlett, Shrek, Onions, etc).
Ambrose at six is just so counter-intuitive I suspect foul deeds afoot; Tiny Tim's been set up for the drop almost. This may be bordering on conspiracy-theory territory, but one might think that by looking so out of his depth at 6 the call for another, more Sussexish keeper who is better with the bat might go out for the third test if we're to persist with a five-man attack.
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A bit of an overstatement.
