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*Official* Fourth Test at Trent Bridge

Black_Warrior

Black_Warrior

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England being in their current position means the form of Lyth is not an immediate concern and when they win this test match, they don't have to worry about it for the fifth test match.

But what's the CW take on Lyth? Is he a long term prospect? England haven't had a settled opener for 3 years now since Strauss retired. Of all the blokes they tried, I felt Compton and Carberry were the two most solid players. Is there any chance that England will look back at either of those 2? At least Compton who I believe has 2 test hundreds? if i'm not wrong?
 
Spikey

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Dan said:
"Sooner or later a ball will have my name on it or I'll be stranded. May as well be on a risky 30 when than happens rather than an utterly useless 5"

It didn't come off and the ball he chose to hit was obviously very poor, but controlled hyperaggression in that situation is a passable strategy option IMO. It comes off, you get the team up to 100 and things are slightly-less-pathetic. It doesn't, and you end up bowled out for around the same amount as if you'd pissed around for 20 minutes doing your best not to nick one before inevitably nicking one (in which time two other batsmen have also got out).

There's no use Australia pretending they could come back from 5/21 to make a meaningful score, on that deck, with Broad bowling as he was. They simply aren't good enough to do that. May as well score as many as you can before the inevitable happens.
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Yeah to me it's just not a big deal, in comparison to what went on before. But whatever
 
Hurricane

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Black_Warrior said:
England being in their current position means the form of Lyth is not an immediate concern and when they win this test match, they don't have to worry about it for the fifth test match.

But what's the CW take on Lyth? Is he a long term prospect? England haven't had a settled opener for 3 years now since Strauss retired. Of all the blokes they tried, I felt Compton and Carberry were the two most solid players. Is there any chance that England will look back at either of those 2? At least Compton who I believe has 2 test hundreds? if i'm not wrong?
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Lyth should be reassessed at the end of the series. If he fails in his last three digs then it wouldn't even be fair to him to keep him on.

Personally I can feel a big score coming for him.
 
Son Of Coco

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Full credit to Clarke for insisting he be the one to front up to major media commitments yesterday. Wouldn't have been the easiest job.
 
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Read recently that Lyth has been a big nicker all of his career, had one great season last year and has simply reverted to normal this time around

Not hard to believe after seeing him play
 
ImpatientLime

ImpatientLime

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watching root got me thinking, who was the last english batsman to finish with a test career average at 50+.

ken fricking barrington back in 1968. how is that even possible? only the banglas (understandable) and new zealand have failed to product a 50+ averaging batsman since then. even zimbabwe produced andy flower.
 
Son Of Coco

Son Of Coco

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If Wood doesn't cop a short one soon I'm going to snap. I've already give my wife my credit card for her shopping trip tomorrow, I'm on the edge of an emotional precipice.
 
LegionOfBrad

LegionOfBrad

International Debutant
Black_Warrior said:
England being in their current position means the form of Lyth is not an immediate concern and when they win this test match, they don't have to worry about it for the fifth test match.

But what's the CW take on Lyth? Is he a long term prospect? England haven't had a settled opener for 3 years now since Strauss retired. Of all the blokes they tried, I felt Compton and Carberry were the two most solid players. Is there any chance that England will look back at either of those 2? At least Compton who I believe has 2 test hundreds? if i'm not wrong?
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There is stuff that went on behind the scenes with both of these two. Compton because he felt he was injured during the NZ series and Flower/whoever not believing him.

With Carberry I think the ECB even tried to get an interview he did with a paper pulled after the 13-14 debacle.

An awful lot of "face doesn't fit" with both of them.
 
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