Because 3 innings make or break a test player.Has Narine had three tests to prove himself like Bairstow?
He was blowing his hands constantly so clearly the cold was getting to his bowling imo, and he did spin it both ways and show a straighter one which nearly got a LBW, got great flight and turn with the edge he got off Bell aswell,
Well if you can't handle a short ball then whether it's three innings or thirty you're gonna get found out!!Because 3 innings make or break a test player.
You talk about all the lions programs but you have to remember these guys are still very young, and nowhere near their peaks yet. Bairstow is developing his game and just because he didn't do particularly well in a test when he's 22, it doesn't mean he can't perform in a few years time, or even tomorrow.
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Well if you can't handle a short ball then whether it's three innings or thirty you're gonna get found out!!
Yes because players don't improve as they mature do they, they're the same at 22 as 32. it's actually funny hearing you slate Bairstow while coming out with all kinds of excuses for Narine, poor stuff tbh.
If push came to shove it's who I'd prefer to see walk out at 6 against SA.
Yeah, it's getting a bit farcical now, I wanted Bairstow to do well, but Bopara has scored runs and bowl. He is in form too.
True, funnily enough Jonny looked good against the short ball today, he just forgot about keeping out the full pitched fast one though.
He could, but he chose not to. Was quite the happy hooker as a youth, but tended to get out to it a fair bit. Put the cue back in the rack permanently and became a ducker, swayer or let-it-hit-himmer.
You're basing this assumption on what? The evidence of one innings? And as Jacknife rightly pointed out things like that can be improved on, I even think he improved in the week between tests to be honest, with regards to playing the short ball.Well if you can't handle a short ball then whether it's three innings or thirty you're gonna get found out!!
While I kind of feel it's the right thing to do, we've got 2 huge series coming up, one against a quality bowling attack, the other in conditions we've really struggled to make runs in. For that I think they should decide which batsmen they think is most likely to make runs in those tests, and pick them.
I'm not slating him, i'm just telling it how i see it, at least Narine has genuine excuses, what does Bairstow have? the english media have been bigging him up but it was all on false hope imo, Taylor was better than him in the Lions game, Narine hasn't even completed his first innings yet and if he takes four of the last five wickets would that change things? of course it would, that's why it's naive to compare Bairstow's failure to Narine's first spell today!!
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Whatever dude.I'm not slating him, i'm just telling it how i see it, at least Narine has genuine excuses, what does Bairstow have? the english media have been bigging him up but it was all on false hope imo, Taylor was better than him in the Lions game, Narine hasn't even completed his first innings yet and if he takes four of the last five wickets would that change things? of course it would, that's why it's naive to compare Bairstow's failure to Narine's first spell today!!
