So it’s completely ludicrous to discard him as ‘****’. Not saying he’s amazing or anything but you can’t describe yourself as cricket fan is you’re gonna go around labelling a guy who’s performed admirably as ‘****’. And, his performances in the context of the overall fragility of the English (and Australian) batting only serves to enhance his reputation, you complete muppet.
Ollie Pope and Dominic Sibley deserve call ups. Foakes should be the wicket keeper ahead of Bairstow, he’s a better keeper and possibly even a better batsmen. Root needs to drop the captaincy and find some form. Personally would give Buttler the captaincy or even Rory Burns but who knows. The selectors have been ****ing **** for a while now so who knows what’s going to happen.
He's not worth your time mate
It's all down to Bayliss and Root. Thank **** Bayliss ****s off after the next test (should have been sacked years ago) and hopefully losing to the Aussies ends Roots time as skipper.
Good post. Thank you for a good assessment and answer. Would you manage Archer better, like not play him in ODIs etc.
Tbf if forced with the choice I’d have taken the WC over the ashes, and I think a lot of that is down to Bayliss. I don’t know why going forward we can’t focus equally as much on both formats, without that being to the detriment of either. Should start with seperate management teams and maybe even selectors for each format. This summer has shown clearly as if it were needed how different the formats are.
The World Cup means nothing without the Ashes imo. Agree with having separate management teams though.
Do you have faith in Ashley Giles to do that? Also, would you have the ECB focus more on developing spinners considering the next WC is in India, or is the focus on Australia ?
Hey look at the bright side, England now have the World Test Maze, T20 WC and ODI WC. Add to those, wins in India, Aus, SA, SL...and its been a good decade for England
https://www.wisden.com/stories/ashes/cricviz-why-hazlewood-cummins-are-australias-lennon-mccartney
Shame about your memory. The run out on NZ'S last ball was the winning wicket. Cheers
Even that was a bridge too far.
But the scores were tied even after that so not it wasnt the winning wicket. You seem to love alt facts. Anyways futile now since your team is on the verge of losing the Ashes. If youre this defensive now, wonder how bad itll be tomorrow. Hope you have a good support system around you. Ashes disappointments are difficult to take. Cheers!
Finding small victories in a huge loss is a good attitude to have. Warner should just go ahead and attack now. What does he have to lose?