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*OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

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LangleyburyCCPlayer

State Regular
Think we’ll go something like this for the first Test:
Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Smith (top 7 looks as set as it’s been for a while)
Woakes
Atkinson
Stone
Bashir

That looks our deepest batting lineup for a very long time, but if Stokes can’t bowl, we’re either going to be short in the spin or seam department. Hoping he can bowl in the second and third Tests and we can bring in Leach for Stone
 
Third_Man

Third_Man

First Class Debutant
Molehill said:
He's taken 4 wickets at 79 from his 6 CC matches so far this season. As soon as Lyon was signed by Lancs he should've got out of there.
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not as simple as blaming Lyon's short stay at Lancs. Hartley played three games (1-178) whilst Lyon was with Lancs for nine games but only missed out on two of the other six because of Lyon. He missed the other four because he was on England drinks duty (ICC and Pakistan series).

Now he's out of the England set up (all three formats) plus dropped from the Lancashire first team for the last two championship matches as Wells takes on the senior spinner role (due to taking more wickets than Hartley who whilst he has become economical has a season's best of 2-46 av over 80. He was Lancs' only bowler to contain Bedingham and Ackerman and not selected since.
 
mackembhoy

mackembhoy

International Regular
LangleyburyCCPlayer said:
Was he going to play? I feel like his pick for Sri Lanka was in part because the series had already been wrapped up, I’m not sure he’d have played it the series were still on the line
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No I doubt he was. We picked too many seamers for the series if the pitches are anything like last time. We rotated between Jimmy,Robinson and Wood. Overton was taken too but didn't play. Stokes only bowled one test.

Unless you used a different attack each game a few of these were going to be carrying drinks

Potts
Woakes
Atkinson
Carse
Stone
Hull
 
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LangleyburyCCPlayer

State Regular
mackembhoy said:
No I doubt he was. We picked too many seamers for the series if the pitches are anything like last time. We rotated between Jimmy,Robinson and Wood. Overton was taken too but didn't play. Stokes only bowled one test.

Unless you used a different attack each game a few of these were going to be carrying drinks

Potts
Woakes
Atkinson
Carse
Stone
Hull
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Given how many of our bowlers have been dropping like flies, I get picking plenty of bowlers tbf. Now we’re down to 5, if we pick 3 seamers per Test that seems like enough in case of injury or if we want to shuffle the pack a bit (I don’t see Atkinson playing 3 Tests back to back after what happened towards the end of the Sri Lanka series). Last time out in Pakistan we picked 3 seamers in the first Test, one being Stokes who only bowled 7 overs (that was the Test Will Jacks bowled nearly 50 overs and got a 6fer), then in the second we picked 3, and then finally in Karachi we only had 2 seamers, Robinson and Wood with the additional frontline spinner in Ahmed
 
Molehill

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
LangleyburyCCPlayer said:
Think we’ll go something like this for the first Test:
Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Smith (top 7 looks as set as it’s been for a while)
Woakes
Atkinson
Stone
Bashir

That looks our deepest batting lineup for a very long time, but if Stokes can’t bowl, we’re either going to be short in the spin or seam department. Hoping he can bowl in the second and third Tests and we can bring in Leach for Stone
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If Stokes can bowl, then surely we play 2 spinners. I'd swap Leach for Woakes who is unlikely to be of any use on these pitches.
 
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LangleyburyCCPlayer

State Regular
Molehill said:
If Stokes can bowl, then surely we play 2 spinners. I'd swap Leach for Woakes who is unlikely to be of any use on these pitches.
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Stokes has said he won’t be bowling in the first Test. Be interesting to see what pitches Pakistan prepare, it was a lush green one for Bangladesh the other day, anything like that and it might bring Woakes well into the game
 
Apex Predator

Apex Predator

State Vice-Captain
LangleyburyCCPlayer said:
Think we’ll go something like this for the first Test:
Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Smith (top 7 looks as set as it’s been for a while)
Woakes
Atkinson
Stone
Bashir

That looks our deepest batting lineup for a very long time, but if Stokes can’t bowl, we’re either going to be short in the spin or seam department. Hoping he can bowl in the second and third Tests and we can bring in Leach for Stone
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Hartley probably would have given similar returns with the bat as Woakes & offered a extra spin option.
Woakes trundling on those roads of Pakistan is a joke. Stone must play over him.
 
Chin Music

Chin Music

State Vice-Captain
LangleyburyCCPlayer said:
Stokes has said he won’t be bowling in the first Test. Be interesting to see what pitches Pakistan prepare, it was a lush green one for Bangladesh the other day, anything like that and it might bring Woakes well into the game
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I would be astonished if they went with green pitches as it would bring in Woakes as well as any of the other seamers England could pick. I never know what's going on in Pakistan. Every Pak origin person I speak to with a knowledge of their game always says that there are a few folk who are not on the radar who simply don't get picked because of selectorial favouritism.
 
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govinda indian fan

State Vice-Captain
LangleyburyCCPlayer said:
Think we’ll go something like this for the first Test:
Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Smith (top 7 looks as set as it’s been for a while)
Woakes
Atkinson
Stone
Bashir

That looks our deepest batting lineup for a very long time, but if Stokes can’t bowl, we’re either going to be short in the spin or seam department. Hoping he can bowl in the second and third Tests and we can bring in Leach for Stone
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Woakes in asia is a joke but think they have taken punt since this is worst test team pakistan ever had
 
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LangleyburyCCPlayer

State Regular
Apex Predator said:
Hartley probably would have given similar returns with the bat as Woakes & offered a extra spin option.
Woakes trundling on those roads of Pakistan is a joke. Stone must play over him.
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govinda indian fan said:
Woakes in asia is a joke but think they have taken punt since this is worst test team pakistan ever had
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I’ve picked Stone and Atkinson alongside him, which one of Potts or Carse is guaranteed to outperform him? The seam bowling stocks are looking pretty mediocre right now
 
Chin Music

Chin Music

State Vice-Captain
LangleyburyCCPlayer said:
I’ve picked Stone and Atkinson alongside him, which one of Potts or Carse is guaranteed to outperform him? The seam bowling stocks are looking pretty mediocre right now
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As was discussed before, it is nothing like 2 years ago when you had Anderson and Robinson doing a fine job with the ball and Wood having a good impact when he played. None of those are present this tour. I'm not quite so down on some of the choices but it will be a hard job for them in Pakistan given their lack of experience.
 
CartyDurham

CartyDurham

International Captain
govinda indian fan said:
Why sky not buying? Thought they had a deal with pcb
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Not listed yet and on here


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