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    *Official* England Tour of West Indies 2019

    I was only using your logic champ. If you are going to claim one side is bad because they performed badly enough in one test match to lose to a side who are generally considered below average (cherry picking in the way that you've accused me of here), then losing 4-1 to that side you are trying...
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    *Official* England Tour of West Indies 2019

    Yeah West Indies genuinely have a very good bowling attack, baring a decent spinner. Can someone explain to me why Nikita Miller has only ever played one test for the West Indies? There's probably a good reason, but 500 fc wickets at 16 is outstanding and I would have thought he would have got...
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    *Official* England Tour of West Indies 2019

    Wouldn't this outlook make losing 4-1 to the side that lost a test to the West Indies even worse?
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    *Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

    The draw is probably the favourite result at the moment but both teams probably still have a decent enough chance of winning. Neither really pushing ahead at this point, and the pitch could well break up given the groundsmen would have had the ramifications of it not doing so in their heads in...
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    He won't get into the test team right now. With the summer coming up. Woakes, Curran, Broad and Anderson all perform well enough in home conditions. Broad is the only one suspect on form but at home against Australia you'll back him to perform well. Probably doesn't have another 8-15 in him but...
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    *Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

    It's funny to think that only a few months before the ball-tampering scandal, the Australian media were accusing Anderson of ball tampering when he was cleaning dirt off the ball right in front of the Umpire; a pretty illogical place to tamper with the ball but a lot of people ran with it...
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    Long term bets..

    Thing is, its too rare for a player to have a 10+ years career and not have a slump at some point; usually at the end. His average being roughly the same takes into account a continuing rise of average, but then a bit of a slump at one point. But maybe since NZ play less test cricket than the...
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    Long term bets..

    Kohli to retire by 35, between 10,500 - 11,000 test runs. Average between 55-57 Williamson - Retires at about 38. 11,500 - 12,000. Between 50 and 52 Smith - retires at 37 but to average just less than 50 in the second half of his career. 13,000 - 13,500 between 56 and 58. Root - To retire at...
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    *Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

    Yeah I think that shows up in conversion rate actually. Root's is a meme, but if you look further down the batting lineup there aren't many players with a conventionally good rate of conversion. Of course, simply having a similar number of tons to fifties doesn't necessarily mean your record is...
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    *Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

    To be fair I get the impression that Indian fc averages are generally very inflated. There's so many players averaging north of 50 compared to other FC set ups but many still end up exposed at the highest level
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    *Official* Sri Lanka Tour of New Zealand 2018/19

    Sri Lanka probably deserved that wicket on balance. If they can get Williamson out (probably strangling him down leg is their best option) they could put on some real pressure I reckon. Also Mathews was impressive when he bowled; or at least he bowled much better than I'd have expected. If...
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    *Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

    This is an incredibly early call but with 4 seamers, with no quality spinner available this could get quite ugly for India
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    *Official* Sri Lanka Tour of New Zealand 2018/19

    I actually think Sri Lanka have the capacity to be competitive in this series. The Sri Lankan seamers (Chameera, Lakmal, Pradeep and Kumara I assume as the selection) are no pushovers given favourable conditions. Importantly they have batsmen capable of big game defining scores as well. Mathews...
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    *Official* England Tour of Sri Lanka 2018

    So let's say England were picking a side for the Ashes now... Who plays as the first spinner and do we play a second? I could only see the latter happening if Ali plays an all-rounder but I don't think his batting is much a relevant factor anymore. Is Leach picked ahead of Ali if bowling quality...
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    *Official* England Tour of Sri Lanka 2018

    If Burns gets a decent score in the 2nd innings I think this might end up being the perfect tour for England; almost too perfect actually because I have no idea who is going to get left out in the West Indies tour when we will play two spinners at most. Rashid's 5 on a generally flat track...
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    *Official* England Tour of Sri Lanka 2018

    Take the gloves away from Bairstow, bat him 3 and he scores 100. Imagine my shock. Hopefully he can keep that up, and this isn't a one off performance motivated by his obvious disdain with being put in a less secure position in the team. A no.3 who can average 40+ would significantly improve...
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    *Official* England Tour of Sri Lanka 2018

    Have a feeling Leach is gonna take 10+ wickets in the match. If the pitch only deteriorates from here his line is going to be a nightmare for the Sri Lankan batsmen.
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    *Official* England Tour of Sri Lanka 2018

    Stone probably deserves a shot in the test side at some point this winter but there's no way he forces out one of the spinners after the last test IMO, especially Leach who is proving himself to be our most accurate one. If it weren't for his spells, I genuinely don't think Ali or Rashid would...
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    *Official* England Tour of Sri Lanka 2018

    Foakes said in the MoM interview that he doesn't really know if he'll play in the 2nd test because he thinks Bairstow is going to come back in. Wouldn't read too much into it, since he was probably just trying to stay grounded but I wonder if they would actually force Foakes out of the team if...
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    *Official* England Tour of Sri Lanka 2018

    Anderson and Curran have already done a very decent job with the new ball

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