Jeff can dress as he pleases mate.
Anyone got links to some extended highlights please? Saw none of it last night but seems another great day’s play. 3-60 to 5/311 with Smith and Marnus not contributing is some come back. Game shaping up beautifully
The stuff that Sky posts on Twitter and their YouTube channel gets geo blocked but the ECB highlights are not get blocked (maybe anywhere) and uploaded fairly quickly typically: https://www.youtube.com/@officialenglandcricket/videos - these are typically the longest highlights video posted too.Cheers. Got a feeling it might be geo’ed. it will have a look
He's a pace pitch batting specialist.Carey currently averaging 166 in England in test cricket, and 51@101 in ODI's
Who has had the better second coming as an opener after seemingly failed middle order career? Katich or Khawaja? Usman looks the obvious choice.Congratulations to Usman and what a journey his career has been. Can be included in the company of of our best openers now. I think criticisms of Usman have been a little unfair over the years but possibly based in the belief that he should've been the batsman he has now become. The same can be said about his frequent omissions from the test team. Sometimes too harsh and too long if initially deserved.
I can only hope that he can keep playing at this level for another 2 or 3 years and give time as well as inspiration to the likes of Renshaw and Harris (whom I know isn't rated but remains there because of a lack of candidates) or until someone new comes along. The advance of Usman and Travis Head has in some way covered for Smith and Labuschagne stepping down from their respective God modes.
Stuart Broad is an arsehole.
Funny how most of Australia's good openers over the last few decades were middle order players promoted up the order.Who has had the better second coming as an opener after seemingly failed middle order career? Katich or Khawaja? Usman looks the obvious choice.
Mentioning joe burns really made you fail the quizFunny how most of Australia's good openers over the last few decades were middle order players promoted up the order.
Langer (technically), Katich, Watson, Warner, Usman, Joe Burns, probably a bunch more too.
I was so focused on middle order players i forgot they had to be good to qualifyMentioning joe burns really made you fail the quiz
yeah ultimately the real issue with how uzzie was treated wasn't his dropping from number three but the persistent refusal to recall him as an opener and trying a laundry list of absolute puds the english wheel of opener mediocrity would be proud of.Nah Langer definitely didn't like Khawaja and picking Harris for those couple of seasons instead was an atrocious call
Only Taylor and Hayden spent their entire career in the openers roleFunny how most of Australia's good openers over the last few decades were middle order players promoted up the order.
Langer (technically), Katich, Watson, Warner, Usman, Joe Burns, probably a bunch more too.
There's a limit of 2 draco malfoys per team. He needs either Root or Broad to be restedwhy is sam curran not playing the ashes
bairstow is ronEnglish squad could throw a Harry Potter themed party and no one would need to dress up. But most would have to go as Ron Weasley
Yeah the worrying thing is that Stokes & McCullum don't seem to see a specialist Wicketkeeper as important enough. Find it so frustrating that Aussies never seem to get punished heavily for mistakes like we do. England will do well to wrestle momentum back after some schoolboy errors.I thought both of Bairstow's missed chances were about as straightforward as it gets off a spinner.
In fairness, he's hardly kept recently apart from a couple of matches for Yorkshire but Foakes would have gobbled both chances up.
Nasser was speaking about it after play and said he still thought Bairstow was the right pick as who would we drop to fit Foakes in.
But I think that's the wrong way of looking at things. You pick your best keeper batsmen and that's Foakes.
You then pick the best batsmen and if you have 1 too many, then someone misses out.
Keeping is too important a position to compromise with selection, and we were taught that lesson today.
tbf, when you're on a highway like this it goes a long way to ensuring the other team gets let off the hook for their mistakes when two batsmen charge past a straight one to let us roar right back in to the game - that kind of, ah temperance which usman has that bairstow and moeen didn't's why he's on 126* and they didn't kick onYeah the worrying thing is that Stokes & McCullum don't seem to see a specialist Wicketkeeper as important enough. Find it so frustrating that Aussies never seem to get punished heavily for mistakes like we do. England will do well to wrestle momentum back after some schoolboy errors.
That's also why England made 390 in 78 overs though. You take the good with the badwhen two batsmen charge past a straight one to let us roar right back in to the game - that kind of, ah temperance which usman has that bairstow and moeen didn't's why he's on 126* and they didn't kick on
oh absolutely, more to the point of "why does it seem like oz don't get punished for their risks as much as england do" i'm just saying large part of that is the greater the risk the greater the downside if it doesn't come offThat's also why England made 390 in 78 overs though. You take the good with the bad