Athlai
Not Terrible
Bravo has the golden touch and has a wicked slower ball. Broad bowls a pretty immaculate line and length despite that being all he does. Somehow they both get wickets and moreso than Harmison has done (since he was good ala2005)
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Broad doesn't get wickets, not in tests. Well, extremely rarely. Absolute beast of an ODI bowler though.
Bravo, well, he's played 30-odd tests now and still averages about 40 with the ball. And unlike Edwards or Taylor, he hasn't been showing any real upturn since he debuted.
He's better than that suggests, and a more than serviceable fifth option. But Harmy's definitely better.
tooextracool
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Is there a reason why Rashid is playing ahead of Swann?
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Thought about this earlier in the thread, and came up with a few possibilities:
1. They already know what Swann can do
2. Swann is going to play the second warm-up and they didn't want to bring Rashid on tour without giving him a game at all.
3. They want to experiment with the wrist/finger spinner combination
I'd say option 2.
1. They already know what Swann can do
2. Swann is going to play the second warm-up and they didn't want to bring Rashid on tour without giving him a game at all.
3. They want to experiment with the wrist/finger spinner combination
I'd say option 2.
Scaly piscine
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I know it's only a final warm-up game, but the decisions over picking Bell and Monty are hugely important. If they're picked we're screwed because they'll play against West Indies and fill their boots - before reverting to being useless against good opposition and costing us the Test series.
FBU
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Don't forget reverse swing -
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All of England’s seam bowlers put a notch in the right-hand column. Stuart Broad, playing only because of Andrew Flintoff’s withdrawal through injury, and James Anderson were the pick, with a brace each. Broad experimented to good effect with his length and slower balls, and Anderson found the most reverse swing in a particularly good spell immediately after lunch.
tooextracool
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I certainly hope so, because there isnt much doubt in my mind(and there shouldnt be in most peoples minds) that Swann was leaps and bounds ahead of Monty in terms of the way he bowled in India.
tooextracool
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Mumbai 2006.
tooextracool
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It was indeed competitive, a lot due to the fact that Chanders batted like a demi-God. The WI batting almost completely relies upon Chanderpaul to the point where if he has a bad series, which hes been due for a while, I'd be really worried.
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Ah, okay. I didn't mean he couldn't do it, just that i hadn't seen him do it.
Don't wait for this to happen.
England has a bigger problem in gayle being inform, and playing really good. Sarwan is due to score some runs aswell.
WI has more proven dangerous than England, if the up and coming players in the WI squad play good I think England can be easily beaten.
Jerome taylor is the most reliable bowler from both squads, he will always get a wicket in his first few overs. The english openers aren't capable of hitting the WI bowlers around the way gayle can.
WI have good strike bowlers, I think this will give them the edge, powell is a worm, don underestimate him.
Athlai
Not Terrible
Sidebottom is more reliable than Taylor.
Prince EWS
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Yeah, so's Flintoff.
Athlai
Not Terrible
Not if you include injury.
Prince EWS
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Haha, fair call.Not if you include injury.
TT Boy
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Hope Taylor comes to the party, bit unlucky in New Zealand but he didn’t do as well as I thought. I really fancied him to clean up. The only good thing about Daren Powell is apparently a poor test at home and his test career is over.
Really looking forward to the first test, the Sabina Park test last year against Aus was fantastic and if not for some dumbass batting, the Windies could have taken the test.
Got a real bad feeling that Ian Bell could have a good series.
Really looking forward to the first test, the Sabina Park test last year against Aus was fantastic and if not for some dumbass batting, the Windies could have taken the test.
Got a real bad feeling that Ian Bell could have a good series.
TT Boy
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Shame. I was hoping that Bravo Jr. could impress. Interested to see how Kemar Roach gets on. I thought he should have got a game in New Zealand.
I like sidebottom, he came back into international cricket when W.I was in England, so I know exactly what he is capable of doing. I don't see him doing much damage in the carib. Just like mitchell johnson was being called to retire because of his ineffectiveness playing in the carib. If it wasn't for clark Aus would have been beaten aswell. Because even mcgill retired because he couldn't get any wickets. I just hope WI players show up believing they can win, and we will see.