Son Of Coco
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Jesus, these Aussies win one Test and then go on about it forever
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*Official* Fifth Test at The Oval
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straw man
Hall of Fame Member
Unbelievable! Panesar in and Bell at 3... Now to sit back and wait for the howls of outrage from the English fans.
Stapel
International Regular
So, after murdering his second chance to play Test Cricket for England, Ian Bell gets a promotion to #3 ??
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
If David Hopps be right then we're ****ed
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Hopps & The Guardian both fairly credible sources, so I'd be inclined to believe it. Hope he's wrong.
Thought this was interesting:
"That England will show faith in two Warwickshire batsmen, Bell and Trott, in England's most high-profile Test for four years also perhaps gives an inkling of the growing authority within the selection panel of the former England spinner Ashley Giles, whose role as Warwickshire's director of cricket may come more under the microscope should England fail again at The Oval."
Trott's selection has merit, he's been knocking on the door for a while, but Ding Dong's promotion to #3 after being less than convincing at four seems to defy logic. I know Dusty will trot out the same old "consistency of selection" tropes tomorrow at the conference, but surely at some point he'd like to see the fruits of his loyalty?
Having a man on the inside probably does our Ian no harm.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Can just picture the selection meeting.
Right our batting is ****, we might need a second spinner in the squad to force a win. Lets go for the ****ing useless proven donkey who can't bat bowl or field and can't even get his average boosters this season with his sterling effort of 10 wickets at 72 in division 2 after just yesterday being spectacularly outbowled by some complete and total plodders.
Oh and we need some batting, should we try for an unknown or a proven waste of space who'll fail without question? Lets go for the proven shower of **** shall we.
Now I'll just get the Aussies on the phone and tell them mission here have the ****ing urn again is on course.
Right our batting is ****, we might need a second spinner in the squad to force a win. Lets go for the ****ing useless proven donkey who can't bat bowl or field and can't even get his average boosters this season with his sterling effort of 10 wickets at 72 in division 2 after just yesterday being spectacularly outbowled by some complete and total plodders.
Oh and we need some batting, should we try for an unknown or a proven waste of space who'll fail without question? Lets go for the proven shower of **** shall we.
Now I'll just get the Aussies on the phone and tell them mission here have the ****ing urn again is on course.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
With 14 first class wickets at 60+ a pop I can only assume he's been picked for his batting
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
...in fact it's all so ridiculous I reckon Hopps is pulling the nation's chain
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Everyone seems to have overlooked the most alarming part, which said that with Flintoff returning, Onions was the most likely pacer to step down. Surely that's a mistake? If Harmison plays ahead of him, I'm going to go ****ing mental.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Apparently a literary expert has decided that England's problems are caused by the number of nouns in the team. The words cook, bell, prior, swan and broad can all be used as nouns.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Yeah, it's a truly disasterous decision (again).
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Yeah I agree, his performances have been largely decent if not groundbreaking. Whereas Harmison has been up to his usual tricks of bashing it in short and being sent to the boundary time after time, and looking completely unthreatening even whilst bowling with the new ball. If this decision is true, which I expect it is, then it's just a massive kop out, bloody dire.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
I would in most cases struggle to believe it as well, but the England selectors have already demonstrated this series that they do not have the common sense required to pick the best team, so to see Harmison lumber out at the Oval would not surprise me in the slightest, they seem to have some mental block which compels them to recall him all the time and not realise that he is rubbish. If Onions was dropped for anyone then it would have to be Sidebottom for mine. I hope the rumours going round that Monty will play are also ill founded, as I can't see him offering much either.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
I would nearly agree, I think there would be room to change Onions for Sidebottom, not that they should, but I think if they did it would not massively adversely effect the chances of winning. But otherwise, yes I agree completely.
pup11
International Coach
Apart from the fact that Bell is your no.3, that side looks pretty good, though I think Trott would bat at 5 and Colly would move up to no.4.