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    IPL 2025 retentions / mega auction

    There’ll be some team willing to pick him up on name value, and I’d love to see it
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    IPL 2025 retentions / mega auction

    I would hasten to say he has the best bowling average of anyone in the auction!
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    Thank You James Anderson- Farewell Thread

    My concern was if we got to Pakistan and the bowling struggled without the know-how of Anderson, in the end we struggled there, but the seamers were absolutely fine, it was the batting that was the main issue. Think the same lot who did well in Pakistan will do fine in New Zealand
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    Thank You James Anderson- Farewell Thread

    Chris Woakes batted at 7 against Sri Lanka, I would agree with that sentiment if he were a bunny, but he’s in the team as an all-rounder rather than solely as a bowler
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    Bowling All Rounders or Batting All Rounders +

    With 3 spinners! :laugh:
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    Bowling All Rounders or Batting All Rounders +

    Dan Lawrence says hi!
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    Bowling All Rounders or Batting All Rounders +

    Our spinner stocks are low, but we’re putting a lot of faith in Bashir
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    Bowling All Rounders or Batting All Rounders +

    :laugh: On a serious note, I think a lot of coaches and selectors if they were in charge of England would use Root as a frontline spinner if Stokes is not around, but the current England setup are very keen on Bashir
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    Bowling All Rounders or Batting All Rounders +

    Also, as I said earlier, there seem to be a dearth of top 6 batters who are more than part-timers with the ball but not at the Kallis 1.75 wpm mark (Green and Marsh immediately spring to mind, Hammond and Jayasuriya don’t quite qualify) but a lot of bowlers who are borderline all-rounders
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    Bowling All Rounders or Batting All Rounders +

    Anyway, to answer the question, I think batting all-rounders are more valuable to the team, if we take England right now, I think most people would agree that Woakes classifies as an all-rounder (yeah he bats a lot at 8, but he has a Test century and averages nearly 27), but when he goes, we...
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    WTC 2025 Final : Qualifying scenario

    Just went and checked, Sri Lanka have never played a 4-match series, mind blown!
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    WTC 2025 Final : Qualifying scenario

    If the WTC became 2 divisions, how much would the lower-ranked teams focus on Tests? To use the West Indies as an example, a Test nation struggling enough as it is to entice their best players to the format, if they get stuck in the second division and are blocked them from playing the big...
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    Bowling All Rounders or Batting All Rounders +

    A batting average close to a bowling average does not an all-rounder make, or else I'd have been an all-rounder at U12 level when I averaged about 4 with the bat lol
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    Bowling All Rounders or Batting All Rounders +

    Without looking, I feel like there aren’t many players with a significant body of work who have between 1 and 1.75 wpm, being an all-rounder (especially a seam-bowling all-rounder) is a demanding job, I feel there are probably a fair few up and coming all-rounders who got weeded out early by...
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    WTC 2025 Final : Qualifying scenario

    Hard to work out when it’s based on % points, can South Africa take it out of everyone’s hands if they just win all their games? India and Australia are going to take points off each other (see also Australia and Sri Lanka)
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    Bowling All Rounders or Batting All Rounders +

    What about someone like Stokes, who has been above 2 wpm for most of his career but whose bowling has become less of a factor in recent times, not because of ability, but fitness?
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    WTC 2025 Final : Qualifying scenario

    Bumped for no apparent reason…
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    *Official* England's Tour of the West Indies, OCTOBER 31st to NOVEMBER 17th, 2024-- 3 ODIs & 5 T20Is

    A silly dismissal in the end, still quite early in the innings, but I think Bethell deserves some credit for how he paced his innings before then
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    *Official* England's Tour of the West Indies, OCTOBER 31st to NOVEMBER 17th, 2024-- 3 ODIs & 5 T20Is

    Had an excellent T20 series with bat and ball against Australia the other day
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    *Official* England's Tour of the West Indies, OCTOBER 31st to NOVEMBER 17th, 2024-- 3 ODIs & 5 T20Is

    Ideally, you'd want to blood a couple of inexperienced (and by that I mean in relative terms, not guys who have barely play 50 over cricket at professional level!) players at a time, but with away Test series either side, obviously the multi-format players can't play. What happened to...

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