***Official*** England in West Indies 2015

[Cabinet96]

Hussain with the Kookaburra hate. "Does nothing after 15 overs."

Listen to our comms ffs.

 

[Tangles]

Lunch at home so I only got 30mins. I can try tomorrow.

 

[Prince EWS]

Listen to our comms ffs.

 

[Tangles]

I tried getting tickets to Australia's games but the options are limited. A full tour package or waiting for local sales 3 weeks before hand. Which then means calling the local booking office or getting via your hotel or at the ground after traveling. That's a piss poor effort with so many USA based ex-pats.

Ftr online tickets are available from a uk website when England tour only.

 

[Niall]

2015 and Devon Smith still opening in test cricket.

 

[Howe_zat]

Peeved to get home and find us bowling. Not in the least because I'm one of those who enjoys watching us bat more when it's live.

 

[Prince EWS]

2015 and Devon Smith still opening in test cricket.

He actually looked pretty good in South Africa, but yeah still threw away starts.

I can't help but love seeing him picked because he seems such a class above domestically, but realistically dropping Leon Johnson and retaining Smith doesn't really make any sense.

 

[Niall]

He actually looked pretty good in South Africa, but yeah still threw away starts.

I can't help but love seeing him picked because he seems such a class above domestically, but realistically drop Leon Johnson and retaining Smith doesn't really make any sense.

He is a domestic bully, not the first though, really they should know this by now.

 

[Tangles]

Got a decent nut today tbf.

 

[wpdavid]

Do we suppose Cook has forgotten that Stokes is playing?

 

[Niall]

Do we suppose Cook has forgotten that Stokes is playing?

Beamer called it a few days ago, got to get Tredwell on, yeah Samuels may smack him for a few fours, but is just as likely to give it away.

 

[wpdavid]

Beamer called it a few days ago, got to get Tredwell on, yeah Samuels may smack him for a few fours, but is just as likely to give it away.

It's a theory. Me, I'm still struggling to cope with the idea of Tredwell being in the side at all.

 

[Pup Clarke]

I'd love to hear Goughy's take on Stokes's action, as to me he seems to markedly decelerate just before the 'gather' stage, and thus puts a lot of onus on his shoulder to drive him through the crease. He looks like an injury just waiting to happen to me.

 

[grecian]

Tredders

 

[wpdavid]

Anyway, here is our mystery spinner, so lets see what happens.

 

[Niall]

It's a theory. Me, I'm still struggling to cope with the idea of Tredwell being in the side at all.

Fair point, but you could see from just their that Samuels was dying to smash Tredwell, got to leave him on, at least it will be interesting!

 

[wpdavid]

Obviously there's a part of me that wants Tredders to do well. otoh he's such a shockingly awful selection that it would really be better of he goes 0 for 100+ and gets himself dropped immediately.

 

[Pothas]

Obviously there's a part of me that wants Tredders to do well. otoh he's such a shockingly awful selection that it would really be better of he goes 0 for 100+ and gets himself dropped immediately.

Unless he does really well and they go with two spinners for the second test then he will get dropped for Moeen anyway. So really we just need him to do OK, which is basically why he is in the side anyway.

 

[wpdavid]

Why is Rashid viewed as being more of a risk than Tredwell?

 

[grecian]

Why is Rashid viewed as being more of a risk than Tredwell?

Because he regularly gets smashed for well over 4-an-over, as he did in the warm-up.

Hey, I may have gone with him anyway with the fall back of Root, but there's no doubt that there's reason to be worried about his economy as the main spinner.