England thread

[Pothas]

Well this had to happen I suppose. As other have mentioned the problem is now Morgan....and us not being very good.

 

[GIMH]

Imagine if we won the World Cup with an Irish captain. Uppercut would have a field day

 

[fredfertang]

Wtf is all this bollocks about Cook being "sacked" or "dumped" - even our own press are at it - the bloke's been rested from a format to which he's never been ideally suited - 'tis no biggie

 

[Cabinet96]

Nah I think it is pretty big. As I've been saying loads on here it's not really a singular format issue because he hasn't been scoring test runs for ages. Regardless of how the world cup goes he'll be under huge scrutiny for the Windies tests.

 

[Spikey]

"So who will replace Cook"
"As captain, Morgan, in the team, probably Hales"
"Are their recent performances good"
"Well"

 

[GIMH]

It's official now

 

[BoyBrumby]

My word Downton's a fecking hack, isn't he?

Barely 48 hours after he blithely annonces to the press that Cook is the man to lead us into the WC the captain's out on his aris.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

"So who will replace Cook"
"As captain, Morgan, in the team, probably Hales"
"Are their recent performances good"
"Well"

Bell to open.

 

[Cabinet96]

You use a smiley like it's not exactly what's going to happen.

Seriously, that's why it's a much of muchness. They're just going to replace him with Bell who's crap as well. At least Cook hadn't been crap for as long.

 

[YorksLanka]

My word Downton's a fecking hack, isn't he?

Barely 48 hours after he blithely annonces to the press that Cook is the man to lead us into the WC the captain's out on his aris.

apparently he didnt have a vote on the decision though, so his inital comments could have been misrepresented by the press as gospel rather than his own personal opinion?

 

[Cabinet96]

Ballance in, no Stokes.

World Cup Squad: Morgan (c), Ali, Anderson, Balance, Bell, Bopara, Broad, Buttler, Finn, Hales, Jordan, Root, Taylor, Tredwell, Woakes

 

[flibbertyjibber]

As I expected after yesterday. Good luck to them, probably going in with lowest expectations of any England side ever so who knows.

 

[grecian]

So Ballance would bat where exactly? Surely Taylor has cemented the spot at 3?

 

[Spikey]

"So who will replace Cook"
"As captain, Morgan, in the team, probably Hales"
"Are their recent performances good"
"Well"

"And in the squad?"
"Gary Ballance"

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So Ballance would bat where exactly? Surely Taylor has cemented the spot at 3?

Doubt he will play.

Ali
Bell/Hales
Taylor
Root
Morgan
Bopara
Buttler
Broad
Jordan/Woakes
Finn
Anderson

 

[Cabinet96]

So Ballance would bat where exactly? Surely Taylor has cemented the spot at 3?

I think he'll only be a reserve batsman. Taylor bats five for Notts doesn't he? Could always be an option to stick Hales or Ballance up the order have Taylor at five if Ravi is being a ****.

 

[GIMH]

Doubt he will play.

Ali
Bell/Hales
Taylor
Root
Morgan
Bopara
Buttler
Broad
Jordan/Woakes
Finn
Anderson

It doesn't look an awful side.

 

[Cabinet96]

That side is considerably better in Aus/NZ conditions than the side four years ago were for 2011. Will also probably be the first time we're actually playing our strongest XI since the Champions Trophy, where we got to the final. No Trott is huge and we need Finn to find his proper one day mojo again, but it's still an OK side. We'll qualify for the quarters and then you only need to win three games, so who knows.

 

[Cabinet96]

I'm going to make posting these Sky Sports info graphics into here a regular thing.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

It doesn't look an awful side.

It doesn't but you would have liked them to have had more games as a unit and not been cobbled together last minute and hope it comes off.