Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
That'll be what I'm hoping for TBH.Strauss
Cook
Vaughan
Pietersen
Bell
Collingwood
Ambrose
Flintoff
Sidebottom
Anderson
Panesar
That'll be what I'm hoping for TBH.Strauss
Cook
Vaughan
Pietersen
Bell
Collingwood
Ambrose
Flintoff
Sidebottom
Anderson
Panesar
If he plays he must play instead of Collingwood in the above team.Harmison for Anderson perhaps? I know Broad hasn't been getting many wickets, but it still seems hard to drop someone who's just made three 50s in consecutive Tests. Not many of the batters have managed that.
Oh dear - anyone seen the latest? Bangs A's 59-6 replying to 429-3. Not sure if Smith would even consider this worthwhile practice.
This is one of the worst First-Class mismatches of recent times.South Africa have a lead of 308, by no means guaranteed that they'll enforce the follow-on though.
He's a wicketkeeper in domestic cricket ffs. Just a wild slog from Amla I suspect.Why the hell hasn't Dhiman Ghosh bowled again though??????
No, he's still posting his drivel, amazing isn't it?bastard isnt censored?
Nope.bastard isnt censored?
Drivel = quite possibly the worst word ever used on CW. Generally those who use it can be identified as poor.No, he's still posting his drivel, amazing isn't it?
That'll be what I'm hoping for TBH.
Oh so now drivel is the worst word ever used on CW...I'm sure you were around in the earlier days when this was not only a cricket chat forum but a place to express your disliking for other inferior racesDrivel = quite possibly the worst word ever used on CW. Generally those who use it can be identified as poor.
I'd go with one of two XIs.
If it is a flat pitch:
Strauss
Cook
Vaughan
Pietersen
Bell
Broad
Ambrose
Flintoff
Sidebottom
Anderson
Panesar
If it is a seaming wicket:
Strauss
Cook
Vaughan
Pietersen
Bell
Collingwood
Ambrose
Flintoff
Sidebottom
Anderson
Panesar
No, he's still posting his drivel, amazing isn't it?
Yeah, was interesting stuff. Victor has a beautiful speaking voice, doesn't he? Gus looks about 50 now tho, mind you he always did look like he was knackered when he was playing & kept charging in.Cricket Writers on TV was a good watch this morning. Think we can say for sure that the following things will happen:
Broad won't play, Harmison will
Bizarrely one of the writers said he'd drop Anderson for Harmison (IIRC, was a fair racket in my living room at the time) which is one of the worst things I've heard for a while. For me, I don't object to Harmison playing (though it will be without expectation) but it has to be as part of either a fourth seamer with no spinner or part of a five-man attack. He has no right at this point to play ahead of either Anderson or Sidebottom, and it would also be ludicrous to pick him ahead of Flintoff (not that that would happen anyway). Potentially intriguing selection coming up, tbh I think it could well fall down to Collingwood V Panesar.
Pitches can, in general, start to take spin on the fourth and fifth days, even if they started as seaming wickets and in such a scenario, Monty could be crucial to pushing for a result in the final innings or in the third innings.So why would you want Panesar on a seaming wicket? So Vaughan can break Flintoff again because he's only got 3 seamers?
I know Richard is a computer program, but I didn't know he was a Dalek.Oh so now drivel is the worst word ever used on CW...I'm sure you were around in the earlier days when this was not only a cricket chat forum but a place to express your disliking for other inferior races