stephen
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Why break the only thing working for you?Boycott reckons they should try Stokes at 3. Is the cupboard so barren
Why break the only thing working for you?Boycott reckons they should try Stokes at 3. Is the cupboard so barren
This is really odd. If they'd batted this way round at Lord's they might well have lost.Buttler is playing as a specialist batsman at 7???
I do wonder if this has something to do with all the overseas and kolpak players being either top order batsmen (hence your surfeit of no 6's and lack of top order options) and opening bowlers (hence your latest bowling sensation learned their cricket on overseas pitches). The rubbish scheduling that misses the best part of the season would be a further hindrance.this isn't a selector issue
there is nothing in county cricket to make this xi better
Wasn't that the case when he was first brought into the team though?Buttler is playing as a specialist batsman at 7???
It should have been 4.It's a wide half-volley. If he's leaving that he's leaving everything in his half outside off.
Which I'm usually more fine with than most, but it's not Stokes's game.
pope has been injured and only just come back before he got that score earlier in the week. i mean sure pick him but for someone as inexperienced as him, i don't see him putting up numbers against this attack in these conditions.Pope being ignored? Roy being expected to succeed as a test opener? Those are selector issues. Is your point that they are forced to make funky decisions due to a lack of batting options in county cricket?
I think this is a good reason as to why India seem to be one of the few sides who can actually bat. Because the IPL is after the usual domestic season, they don't need to make compromises with regard to FC scheduling like Australia and England.I do wonder if this has something to do with all the overseas and kolpak players being either top order batsmen (hence your surfeit of no 6's and lack of top order options) and opening bowlers (hence your latest bowling sensation learned their cricket on overseas pitches). The rubbish scheduling that misses the best part of the season would be a further hindrance.
They have, but you don't help yourself when two of the batsmen woft the bat at wide ones and your opener flaps at a short one.Yes we’ve been crap, but let’s give the Australian bowlers some credit. They’ve bowled phenomenally this morning.
pope has been injured and only just come back before he got that score earlier in the week. i mean sure pick him but for someone as inexperienced as him, i don't see him putting up numbers against this attack in these conditions.
roy was probably worth a gamble. since strauss retired we've picked a long list of guys who put runs up in domestic cricket like sibley and were nowhere good enough at international level. lyth, carberry, robson, compton, jennings etc. but again sure give sibley a go but don't expect him to succeed.