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*** Official*** South Africa in England 2017
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Groundking
International Debutant
He's had 9 innings, been caught 7 times and trapped LBW twice, whether or not that means he's fixed his issues I don't know, but we need a change and having 3 lefties at the top of the order just seems like sending the lambs out to slaughter against Vern at the minute.
LegionOfBrad
International Debutant
Even without the shadow of Big Vern I think a RH/LH combo opening is always a plus.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
You'd think so, but our best opening combos in recent times have probably been Strauss & Tres and Strauss & Cook, so who's to say.
Groundking
International Debutant
Agreed, but the best players available should be picked in normal circumstances regardless of RH/LH combo. I want us to play the following for the next test:
Cook
Robson
Ballance (he gets 2/3 more tests for me, and then that's it forever unless he does something truly outrageous like averaging 150 in the CC scoring 2k runs)
Root
Bairstow
Stokes
Moeen
Rashid
TRJ
Broad
Anderson
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
That's a beauty.
Groundking
International Debutant
That's a beauty of a ball, that gets out any batsman in the world.
OverratedSanity
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Wow, great ball. Morris is actually good.
flibbertyjibber
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Be all over by tea.
Black_Warrior
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wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Hopefully.
That ball from Morris does rather support the view that the difference in bowling has been a much bigger factor than the difference in batting in this test.
Not that we produce much in the way of sensible alternatives there, either.
wpdavid
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Steyn, Philander, Morkel and Rabada doesn't bear thinking about for the rest of us.
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Groundking
International Debutant
I don't know we played some truly **** shots in the first dig. The biggest issue with the bowling is that Anderson and Broad did their usual clever trick of wasting new ball and golden conditions by refusing the pitch the thing up, oh and Wood has been dog ****.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Wood's historically been pretty poor at backing up in consecutive Tests.
In the end, the third/fourth bowler will probably go further to deciding the series - with Anderson, Broad, Philander and Morkel cancelling each other out a bit over two Tests so far.
Morris and Maharaj stood up in the 2nd Test, Ali in the first.
In the end, the third/fourth bowler will probably go further to deciding the series - with Anderson, Broad, Philander and Morkel cancelling each other out a bit over two Tests so far.
Morris and Maharaj stood up in the 2nd Test, Ali in the first.
Imagine having kyle abbott in there as well
ImpatientLime
International Regular
i'm not sure if the back to back tests excuse works for wood here when you consider the fact that he only bowled 1 over in the second dig at lords.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
I'm not sure there's been much evidence that the openers have cancelled each other out; not with the first new ball, anyway.