Well luckily the guys who actually make the calls aren't any of us, so i doubt you'll here Strauss or Flower say thing like "he can't be any worse" when picking a side. When I do it on the forum, so what, it just means I don't rate either batting but I'd actually pick Boprara atm because he'll bring more to this side than Morgan presently and like I said before knowing that Morgan's place is up for grabs may make the difference.
While Bopara's bowling would be useful in these conditions, I think the difference between his bowling here and Trott's bowling would basically be nil. It's in Australia, South Africa and England where I reckon Bopara's bowling would be better than Trott's by enough for it to be a small factor.
Yep, completely AWTA. If it was up to me then neither Morgan nor Bopara would be on this tour but the selectors obviously rate them or they wouldn't have picked them in the first place - either that or they think there's absolutely no-one bar the current top five and Prior who could conceivably be decent Test players right now, which is highly unlikely.
Who bats seven then? Morgan?
...going to be their 7th best batsman, whoever it's.
Good one.Give de Villiers a British passport - or Amla ...
Yep agree, they were always going to give Morgan a extended run in the side once they picked him and even though he's not great, he's far from the worst and on occasions shown that he can score. I think the England Management had hopped that these conditions would be more suited to him, more so than home conditions, with his ability to play spin bowling so well in one day cricket but we'll see.
Not convinced, tbh. Reckon his batting would've been useful if nothing else, but I have no gripes with any of the bowlers' efforts, apart from an obviously underdone Tremmers.
