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***Official*** England in Sri Lanka 2012

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CWB304

U19 Cricketer
Dissector said:
This is a very average Sri Lankan attack so England can still win this. I think SL will need a bit of deterioration in the pitch by day 4 to win. Those extra 80 odd runs that England conceded today will force them to bat well into day 4 though, so SL should have enough time to build pressure through spin and hope the pitch does something.
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I'd like a bit of whatever it is you're smoking. Get Trott out and you're into the tail.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
LegionOfBrad said:
Grinding to a halt against the spinners now. 70-5 coming up.
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Likely as.

The whole drop 'em debate is a tough call, tbf. Those of us who were around in the 1980's will always err on the side of sticking with a player for too long rather than ditching them after a handful of poor innings. That being said, I'm not 100% convinced that the return of Strauss & Bell after being dropped suggests that they should not have been ditched in the first place - more likely, it sent a message to sort their game out rather than bank on being picked due to past glories. Given what we've seen this winter, it would be hard to justify all of them starting against WI unless things pick up massively in the next 5 innings. Sometimes, the fact that the alternatives aren't averaging 50+ isn't the whole argument.
 
LegionOfBrad

LegionOfBrad

International Debutant
wpdavid said:
Likely as.

The whole drop 'em debate is a tough call, tbf. Those of us who were around in the 1980's will always err on the side of sticking with a player for too long rather than ditching them after a handful of poor innings. That being said, I'm not 100% convinced that the return of Strauss & Bell after being dropped suggests that they should not have been ditched in the first place - more likely, it sent a message to sort their game out rather than bank on being picked due to past glories. Given what we've seen this winter, it would be hard to justify all of them starting against WI unless things pick up massively in the next 5 innings. Sometimes, the fact that the alternatives aren't averaging 50+ isn't the whole argument.
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They likely won't be dropped. The main problem being that come the tests vs the Windies they'll likely rack up 600-2 in non spinning conditions and no one will talk about the problems against spin.

Strauss's days are certainly numbered. I wonder if he will go out after the SA series. I don't think they'll struggle as badly against the SA seamer's (as awesome as they are) as they have on these pitches.
 
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