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*Official* West Indies Tour of England 2020

honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
I am juz happy we may have some test cricket to watch and talk about next week. I am gonna spam the thread so hard with my observations on every ball, lol.






I jest, of course... I will be around for sure though.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

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Howe_zat said:
A couple of times, but only with Root at three.

I'd probably play Bairstow for one game and maybe move Pope. 4-6 of Stokes-Bairstow-Pope in some order isn't too bad.

Crawley is 21, he's not going anywhere.
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Presumably with Burns and Sibley also in the top 3?
Not sure about the current version of Bairstow, irrespective of how good he used to be. Denly's two hour 30s after we've lost a couple of quick wickets might be useful against this attack.
 
theegyptian

theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
Vince isn't in the training group for the tests so seems unlikely he'll play.

Against the Stokes captain thing strongly. 1) He's too on the edge emotionally and thus too liable to do something stupid. 2) he's already got plenty going on with batting/bowling/fielding thing without burdening him with captaincy duties. It's not just the management of the players, it's all the time you have to spend with the press. I don't think he can do that really whilst maintaining form.

If it's a one off then it probably won't be too bad, however we know he has ambitions of captaincy and as vice-captain he's in prime position to takeover if Root goes in the next few years. The often repeated words from the changing room is that he is a leader in the changing rooms and on the field, so I don't see why he can't continue doing that whilst not being officially captain and all that entails.
 
ImpatientLime

ImpatientLime

International Regular
has the blm message on the west indies collar been okayed by the icc?

can see the icc making an absolute **** of this and fining the west indies similar to how they did moeen for his wrist band a few years back.
 
theegyptian

theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
Behind-Closed-Doors Training Group

Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Jofra Archer (Sussex), Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire), Dominic Bess (Somerset), James Bracey (Gloucestershire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Rory Burns (Surrey), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Zak Crawley (Kent), Sam Curran (Surrey), Joe Denly (Kent), Ben Foakes (Surrey), Lewis Gregory (Somerset), Keaton Jennings (Lancashire), Dan Lawrence (Essex), Jack Leach (Somerset), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Craig Overton (Somerset), Jamie Overton (Somerset), Matthew Parkinson (Lancashire), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Ollie Robinson (Sussex), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Dom Sibley (Warwickshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Olly Stone (Warwickshire), Amar Virdi (Surrey), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wood (Durham).

That was the training squad. Intrasquad 3 day game starting wednesday. ecb live********* it.
 
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wpdavid

wpdavid

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ImpatientLime said:
has the blm message on the west indies collar been okayed by the icc?

can see the icc making an absolute **** of this and fining the west indies similar to how they did moeen for his wrist band a few years back.
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Was Moeen's about Palestine? Different sort of political, so maybe it's OK.
 
Daemon

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ImpatientLime said:
has the blm message on the west indies collar been okayed by the icc?

can see the icc making an absolute **** of this and fining the west indies similar to how they did moeen for his wrist band a few years back.
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They've effectively green lighted it by issuing a statement saying they'll take a "common sense approach" towards such actions.
 
trundler

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The ICC Facebook page made a post about it so either they have very dumb admins or they're onboard with it
 
Howe_zat

Howe_zat

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The ICC, of all people, showing support for BLM as a general humanitarian cause is a bit off to me given the ICC's approach to political messages, yeah.

I always thought BLM was a very worthy political campaign focused almost entirely on the behaviour of the American police and courts. But it's not the ICC's fault that it seems to have gone a bit vague lately.
 
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