Adil Rashid

[trundler]

Does your praise have the opposite effect?

 

[Spintolose]

Here's the thing . England don't produce a lot of good spinners these days . Now pitches are well cared for the role of the spin bowler has lessened over here . We made changes to our County structure a while back to try to bring spinners into the game more , but not seen much fruit out of it yet .

I remember some of them. Whatever happened to that Kerrigan guy that played against Australia? I don't think he even plays county cricket now.

Crane, Leech, Dawson are the others that come to mind. Then there was the bringing back of David Batty 3 centuries after his England debut.

 

[Neil Young]

I remember some of them. Whatever happened to that Kerrigan guy that played against Australia? I don't think he even plays county cricket now.

Crane, Leech, Dawson are the others that come to mind. Then there was the bringing back of David Batty 3 centuries after his England debut.

Yeah, I'm thinking you mean Gareth.

 

[Bijed]

I remember some of them. Whatever happened to that Kerrigan guy that played against Australia? I don't think he even plays county cricket now.

Crane, Leech, Dawson are the others that come to mind. Then there was the bringing back of David Batty 3 centuries after his England debut.

Kerrigan's career just kinda died after his torrid test debut IIRC - played in the CC for a while afterwards but never seemed to do much. Crane's domestic stats don't demand a recall whatsoever, not sure he really deserved his first call-up for that matter. Leach is presumably our go-to 2nd spinner in tests now, but his lack of batting means Moeen will always be preferred as first spinner if bowling well, so for a few years at least he's probsbly only going to get a look in in certain circumstances. In another lifetime, Dawson could well have had a solid enough LO career for England, but I guess doesn't quite fit with our 'brand' nowadays.

 

[wpdavid]

Leach is probably our best spinner, and I could cope with him batting at 10 for us behind Woakes and Broad.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Leach is probably our best spinner, and I could cope with him batting at 10 for us behind Woakes and Broad.

Moeen not getting dropped though so think we can forget that one. Will Woakes play in the test side ahead of Archer?

 

[Pothas]

Could definitely see Leach replacing Moeen at some point but Moeen has bowled really well since he came back into the side.

Archer can bat as well of course. Got a very decent first class record.

 

[wpdavid]

Moeen not getting dropped though so think we can forget that one. Will Woakes play in the test side ahead of Archer?

The other variable is whether Anderson's fit. If not, maybe we're looking at Woakes, Broad, Leach and Archer from 8 to 11. Thinking about it, Archer would bat above Leach of course.

 

[andruid]

He is the chosen one. That is why he is always being chosen

 

[ImpatientLime]

adil rashid; world champion

 

[91Jmay]

https://twitter.com/Vitu_E/status/1150498159682105345

Big if true

 

[ImpatientLime]

https://twitter.com/Vitu_E/status/1150498159682105345

Big if true

oh my days the first response

CC@Jacob_Rees_Mogg

 

[sledger]

Can't rule it out tbh

 

[91Jmay]

oh my days the first response

CC@Jacob_Rees_Mogg

What a muggy **** that inbred dog****er is

 

[sledger]

What a muggy **** that inbred dog****er is

I think you quite like him actually

 

[cpr]

Kerrigan's career just kinda died after his torrid test debut IIRC - played in the CC for a while afterwards but never seemed to do much.

In truth Kerrigans career stats were massively inflated by a year playing at the North Wests finest out grounds whilst Old Trafford was redeveloped, we won the title on spin that year.

The test fiasco shot the hell out of his confidence too.

 

[Athlai]

Hes no Santa