5th Test at The Oval, London

[Daemon]

MMarsh could definitely be a 6. Or even bat higher. Just needs things to click a bit. He's shown that he's clearly good enough at the level below to play as a specialist batsman.

This sounds a bit like me fooling myself every pre-season for the past 10 years thinking I just need to fix my grip to finally start scoring runs

 

[stephen]

MMarsh could definitely be a 6. Or even bat higher. Just needs things to click a bit. He's shown that he's clearly good enough at the level below to play as a specialist batsman.

Australian Ramprakash with the bat. Great one level down, can't step up.

 

[King Pietersen]

Jack Leach. WAFG.

 

[Daemon]

If only he didn't run out of partners/a target to chase, Leach would probably have 500 runs this series.

 

[Daemon]

hahah feels like ages since I've seen an ump call a wide in tests.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

His fastest delivery was 144km/hr too.

He came back pretty lame pace-wise after his injury and his few months playing as a specialist bat but his bowling seems to be back to where it was now.

Yeah. When fit he is much sharper than people think. Think said 144 ball was fairly wide, but his pace was definitely up almost all day

 

[Groundking]

Jos

 

[King Pietersen]

Jos Don't know why he was basically slogging though, no need to when Leach is solid at the other end, they should have just milked the runs.

 

[GIMH]

Jos Don't know why he was basically slogging though, no need to when Leach is solid at the other end, they should have just milked the runs.

Because any minute Leach could be gone and then the opportunities run out. Come on, it's fairly standard.

 

[wpdavid]

Jos Don't know why he was basically slogging though, no need to when Leach is solid at the other end, they should have just milked the runs.

Smith batting with Siddle at Edgbaston wasn't a bad template for this situation.

Anyway, Broad at 11. Maybe he's wondering how it came to this.

 

[mr_mister]

Maybe moving forward we can play an extra specialist bat and use Marsh at 8 as a bowling AR

 

[OverratedSanity]

Why did Lyon only bowl 4 overs?

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Tasting it rn

I don't mind though, Marsh was quality

 

[GIMH]

Has a batsman ever regressed as much as Stuart Broad?

 

[Pothas]

Has a batsman ever regressed as much as Stuart Broad?

Gough? Was never as good as Broad with the bat but feels like a similar story.

 

[Groundking]

Shame we couldn't make it past 300, but we've done alright considering we were 226/8

 

[TheJediBrah]

Can't wait to see another Warner duck

Harris to make 80+

 

[King Pietersen]

Warner's finally going to make a score today I reckon. Like Hayden in '05.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Warner should just be having a crack IMO. Play like it's a T20

 

[social]

Has a batsman ever regressed as much as Stuart Broad?

Knock on the head stuffed him