Nah, **** off.This is the kind of attitude why England hasn't produced leg spinners of callibre in so much time. You bowl a bit erratically and you are considered a **** bowler.
gonna have a guess that you've never seen him bowlThis is the kind of attitude why England hasn't produced leg spinners of callibre in so much time. You bowl a bit erratically and you are considered a **** bowler.
Moeen not bowling half as much as Rashid (who isn't considered a specialist). Just speaks for itself really. Moeen hasn't really bowled that much. Has had a good year and suddenly he is considered good enough to take on the responsibility of the main spinner on wickets with spin.Geoff Boycott has 22 test tons but that doesn't mean he's a better batsman than me. Also looking at the stats, Rashid has bowled like twice the overs of Moeen. I think you also forget that the sole purpose of a spinner isn't really to take wickets ffs
His mother is though.Geoff Boycott has 22 test tons but that doesn't mean he's a better batsman than me.
I hate this post so much.Haha you wouldn't really put it past them though, would you?
I can just see it now -- he comes in for Tredwell and has an average game on the back of questionable fitness and morons like Botham start talking about how the selectors were made for not selecting a "specialist spinner" (even though Moeen is the better bowler) and talk about how harsh it was to drop Tredwell after "doing so well" (ie. outbowled by Root in the fourth innings when he was really needed..) in the first Test.
Yep. Graves was correct. For England to be close to where they want to be then they should easily beat this West Indies team. Before this series I said it would say more about England then WI and I think that has been the case. England are not a very good team at the moment with 4, generously 5, established Test players. Too many ordinary players IMO and jumbled ideas.Sorry, but if we have any aspirations of performing at a high level in the International game then you have to be aiming to beat one of the weakest opponents, home or away. How many of our players have performed at the levels you would expect of them? Had they done so, would we have won the series? Is that acceptable?
Graves may not have come up with a media-sanitised soundbite, but he's a Yorkshireman and you can't expect much else on that front. We've been railing against corporate speak and bland nothingness in the Moores era and yet a blunt challenge to our own side - and indeed an admission that we're not as good as we'd like to be - is unacceptable? Do we think the Australians will be hand-wringing when someone tells the world they're coming here to hammer a "mediocre" England?
We weren't good enough. Again. We've done that a lot recently and nothing has changed.
So maybe this time something might?
this is one of the few tables where Bangladeshi batsmen are just like batsmen from the other teams btwhow exactly did england get themselves into a position where both of stokes and moeen got games anyway
also it's time for an important update
Ian Bell's average in games England have lost: 26.93 (0 100's, 8 ducks)
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