Hurricane2
U19 Cricketer
Root has 40 wickets at 44
Bess 36 wickets at 34
Leach 63 wickets at 31
Would also go with Root.
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1st Test at Brisbane, 8th-12th of December 2021
- Thread starter Starfighter
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Bess 36 wickets at 34
Leach 63 wickets at 31
Would also go with Root.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Didn't we try this four years ago? Or maybe the time before that. These series merge into one nowadays. Don't get me wrong, Broad should have played here and I hope he plays in the next one. Less convinced that Overton should play because of his height
Gnske
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Bringing in the reserve bowlers already? Not much faith shown to their first choicers
Son Of Coco
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TheJediBrah
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I forgot how much I love Damien Martyn
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Is Billings even in the squad? Strewth. Fair play about Vince, although I don't know when he last opened. At least he might be able to catch a ball
Hurricane2
U19 Cricketer
Hameed with his scores of 27 and 25 did relatively well as low as that bar was for England this match.
Real old school opener with a career SR after 7 tests of 33.
Real old school opener with a career SR after 7 tests of 33.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Bairstow opening against a pink ball under lights is a set of splayed stumps waiting to happen, surely?
Starfighter
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Not only were England thrashed, but they played the match for free as well, fined 100% of their match fees and losing five WTC points for their funereal pace while bowling.
theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
Pope keeping up his 1st innings/2nd innings disparity. 1st team innings average of 43, 2nd team innings of 14.
Looking more and more likely that he will be this generations Hick or Ramprakash. Outstanding county record, mediocre test record.
Looking more and more likely that he will be this generations Hick or Ramprakash. Outstanding county record, mediocre test record.
How long until Joe Root gets a match suspension, that was pitiful by England, should have been fined 150% of their match fee.
TheJediBrah
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wtf I don't know how bad the overrate was but it must have been world record levels of bad to justify that
Spark
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I mean it was never particularly reasonable in the first place. It's not like he'd bowled awfully beforehand, just didn't get the wickets on a pitch doing very little for spinners.
Spark
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I don't care about over rates at all usually and I thought it was ridiculously slow on Day 2
I rate Pope and thought he looked pretty good in the first dig but he's going to give Lyon a fair few wickets if he's going to bat like that against spin.
Starfighter
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The WTC table says 7 penalty overs. They were 14 overs short on day 2 but there were plenty of delays, so that seems about right, htogh they might have made some time up on day 3. It was catastrophically bad, especially when you remember that although a day is 'technically' 6 hours there's a free extra half hour. They bowled only 12 overs an hour on day 2.
Prince EWS
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Pope looked heaps better against spin in this Test than he did in England but yeah Lyon's going to get him out most innings anyway IMO. He's actually quite good when he uses his feet and tries to get to the pitch but it's totally against his instincts; he seems to need to consciously force himself to do it, so when he has concentration lapses he gets stuck on the crease.
Ian Bell was the same in the first half of his career against Warne and Ajmal too.
Salamuddin
International Debutant
Way too early to say that about Pope.
Actually think he is a top notch talent along with hameed. They are two of the most promising batsmen in the world.. Have to persist with him as young batsmen take time to mature.
