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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    I’m pretty sure I read that’s his first single figure score in that time?
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    In Pakistan they celebrate Shrove Tuesday very late!
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    I asked a very similar question when Stokes got injured, while we have a few bowlers who could potentially do the Woakes role with the bat (Carse and Atkinson are already in the team), but no realistic Stokes replacement as a batting all-rounder
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    If everyone bats to their current Test (or FC in the case of Carse) average (which may be selling them short given how flat the deck is), we’ll put on another 150 plus whatever Root and Brook make and extras, 700 plus is well within their capability
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    Who will score the next triple hundred in Test Cricket in the 2020's ?

    Even if it ends up with England losing, they’ll always go for the win and not chase personal milestones. Come to think about it, apart from Pope against Ireland when was the last England double centurion? We get a lot of very pretty, and actually sometimes pretty effective, scores, but few...
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Duckett spoke about earning the right to crank it up to 5th gear, hoping to get the lead to 200 and then trying to get them out from then on when the pitch hopefully starts to break up. Ideally Root, Brook and Smith stick around for a bit longer so that when Woakes and the rest of the bowlers...
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Might be a while before he comes out to bat lol
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Definitely England’s day, albeit with the caveat that batting looks extremely easy on this placid surface and the chances of winning the Test are still fairly slim. Not that England are exactly Boycott-ing it at the moment, but I think they’ll try to get to Pakistan’s total before really...
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    Who will score the next triple hundred in Test Cricket in the 2020's ?

    Maybe if he gets pushed up the order? He’s a makeshift 4 this Test, I think in this instance, either ultra-aggressive batting to try to force a result or a declaration might hinder his chase for 300, probably be easier if England bat first
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    I know that Woakes is batting up the order these days, but he and Carse are more bowling all-rounders, in the absence of Stokes, it’s a shame we don’t have someone not named Woakes (who is averaging just shy of 20 over the last 2 calendar years—pre-Pakistan anyway!) deemed suitable to bat in the...
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Time to have a smack around or is it still too early? Lots of wickets in hand, but with only one more specialist bat to come, even if the tail is strong
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Pakistan playing for the draw?
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Nasser pointed out that opening is a much different role in Pakistan, where the pitches often do nothing and there is no swing, compared to England where opening is one of the hardest jobs in cricket, considering the number 3 is one ball away from being a de facto opener, the same is largely true
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    I don’t think he should be in the team, and if he wants to be, I think he should play more red-ball stuff, but at the same time, does his face not fit with the Test team no matter what he does? We could do with an all-rounder with Stokes out
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Says a lot about the pitch that we are still so far behind, we still need to bat and bat and bat! Should get to the end of the day still batting, which will give us a chance
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Crawley and Duckett at least do their first job of giving those below them a platform and not forcing Root in with single figures on the board, but definitely not enough centuries from everyone not named Joseph Edward Root
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    A ton genuinely feels like an event these days, and with the pitches we’ve played on even in England, it shouldn’t really be (Atkinson excepted lol)
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Crawley you doofus
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    On the one hand, when you’ve got a bang average record and you want to gatecrash the Test team, you should play as much red ball stuff as possible, on the other, does it matter at this stage? Would it actually matter if he prioritises the County Championship, or is there simply not a way back...
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    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Been watching highlights of the previous series, I forgot Keaton Jennings went out there lol, what’s the harm in having him out there again just on the off chance one of the openers can’t bat? It’s interesting, the early BazBall era had Lees playing and Jennings travelling out to Pakistan, not...

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