*Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

[91Jmay]

Curran is properly reckless with the bat isn’t he? Part timer definitely a good idea to him.

Played completely appropriately.

Great knock from Pope, delivering on his massive promise.

 

[ImpatientLime]

played

england have got a proper player here

 

[Gremlin]

Phew!!! Well batted. Very pleased for him indeed

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Nice one young man.

 

[wpdavid]

And there he goes. Great stuff.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Get Root scoring again and him followed by Stokes, Pope and a wicket keeper contributing with the bat looks strong again.

 

[Raffski]

Played completely appropriately.

Great knock from Pope, delivering on his massive promise.

Yeah no issue with it today, but he always bats like that.

Pope easily the best looking bat we’ve debuted since Root.

 

[Gremlin]

Jos must be running pretty short on rope now, guess it depends on how Foakes does when the CC restarts (hope he goes back down the order and doesn't feel he has to bat at 3 or whatever again). Vaguely worried we might just go back to Bairstow, though.

Are there any other keeper-bats vaguely in the frame if the two JBs don't perform and Foakes has a bad season?

They'll probably give the gloves to Pope

 

[wpdavid]

Jos must be running pretty short on rope now, guess it depends on how Foakes does when the CC restarts (hope he goes back down the order and doesn't feel he has to bat at 3 or whatever again). Vaguely worried we might just go back to Bairstow, though.

Are there any other keeper-bats vaguely in the frame if the two JBs don't perform and Foakes has a bad season?

Don't Kent have a young keeper/batsman who's playing for The Lions this winter?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

They'll probably give the gloves to Pope

Na, Burns.

Pope was pretty crap with the gloves in NZ so unless it a desperation thing he won't be used again.

 

[Cabinet96]

Pope rocking the Steve Smith headband. He's the real deal.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Seriously well played, didnt catch the whole innings but most of what I've watched has been impressive.

 

[wpdavid]

How on earth did Bess make 57 against Pakistan?

 

[Pothas]

Broad to roll back the years after tea. Well I would take him scoring 12.

So good to see this from Pope.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So Bess, Denly and Root to bowl us to victory then. Doing just a little bit for the spinner.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

How on earth did Bess make 57 against Pakistan?

They had him to score that many.

 

[91Jmay]

Throw the bat after tea and see if we can get 450, then have a good long bowl at them.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Throw the bat after tea and see if we can get 450, then have a good long bowl at them.

Yeah just another 20 minutes/half hour or so will do. Enough to annoy the openers.

 

[Bijed]

Throw the bat after tea and see if we can get 450, then have a good long bowl at them.

Would prefer it if it turned out to be a really quick bowl tbh

 

[Flem274*]

unfortunately pope looks quite good at #6.

has he moved higher for his county yet? while i'd keep him at #6 for a while in tests, it's a matter of time before he's involved in a reshuffle given englands top 3 are collectively bare minimum standard.