Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Yesssssssssss get ****ed Potts.
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*Official* South African tour of England and Ireland 2022
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Marius
International Debutant
Harmer added to the XI, may play tomorrow.
GRAB
First Class Debutant
https://cricketfanaticsmag.com/we-have-12-players-dotted-down-dean-elgar/ as above, but more detail than the twitterz.
Red_Ink_Squid
Global Moderator
What's your thing about Potts, PEWS? I've seen you post similar before but I missed where your anti-Pottsness started. Is it just that you don't rate him or is it something else?
Gremlin
U19 Vice-Captain
Precisely this.
Crawley had already been selected. We shall see how things fair for the 3rd test, if I'm honest I think he's got the summer.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
lol yeah pretty much
I don't like watching him bowl and think he's been exceedingly lucky so far to end up with the figures he's got. Robinson's far better IMO.
Marius
International Debutant
I don't feel strongly about Potts either way, but his action does not spark joy.
Arachnodouche
International Captain
There's inordinate praise around him in the media too. He's a standard English seamer with no real pace or movement about him. He does seem at home bowling long spells which is a good thing generally and will be useful outside of England where they'll be in the field for 150 overs.
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
No they need to pick the best side and Broasd took the most Wickets and scored the second most runs.
Anyway, bowlers shouldn't be the focus after that shitshow of a batting performance, but as ever hideous batting means dropping a bowler. Foakes, Lees and Crawley should not be there IMHO.
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
His stamina is all he has really, otherwise he's just another guy. Yet all our really fast bowlers are injured, and TBH looking at Nortje even they don't look so quick.
Nintendo
Cricketer Of The Year
Yes, foakes, who's been great in the championship for the past 2 years and played multiple crucial knocks needs to be booted out the door 1 match after coming back from injury for..... Billings? Make pope bat 3 and keep? Give johnny the gloves and **** around with his form?
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yes, Foakes whose 'keeping as not been all that at all is averaging 19 in the last 3 years. He needs to be ditched for Bairstow whose good form is always down the order, and he was excellent doing so whilst 'keeping until they decided to bugger about with him. He still averages more as designated ;keeper than not.
Look if Foakes' 'keeping was as brilliant as many suggest I wouldn't be having this convo, I'd have taken a lower average, but it just hasn't been, he really isn't Knott or Bob Taylor.
Give Brook a go.
If Crawley flunks the rest of this series and is still selected for the Winter then I'm giving up. I'll find a different sport to watch.
Socerer 01
International Captain
Foakes has been properly Rahane’d tbf with how he wasn’t picked when he was in form
Red_Ink_Squid
Global Moderator
I'd agree that Robinson is better but as a partisan England fan I have a much more favourable view on Potts.
I think with him you need to take into account that at the start of the England home season he was nowhere near in the reckoning for a Test spot, full Natarajan distance down the pecking order. He only made the squad due to a bright start to the County season and simultaneous injuries to Robinson, Woakes, Wood, Archer, Stone, Mahmood, Fisher, SCurran and I'm probably forgetting more. Being called up in that context he's been way better than could have been expected. By all rights his bowling should have been a major weak link in the side, but I don't think it has been, even if you think his figures flatter him a bit. Obviously he's young enough to hopefully keep improving too.
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I think they've played it quite well with Potts. Dropping him for the first test wouldn't have been great from a team building perspective given Robinson was dropped for attitude/fitness reasons and Potts's attitude and fitness have been impeccable (while also taking lots of wickets). But Robinson is the better bowler and it's great that they haven't messed around any longer.
GRAB
First Class Debutant
Will likely be Harmer, but they're both 8s...SA can GTFO with Maharaj at 7