**Official** Ireland in England 2019

[Prince EWS]

I'm usually the first to talk about how high variance batting is and how **** it is to make sweeping statements about how right you were about someone sucking based on one innings, but who else is totally unsurprised that Roy and Denly not only failed but looked totally unsuited to the job at hand?

 

[Prince EWS]

I'm usually the first to talk about how high variance batting is and how **** it is to make sweeping statements about how right you were about someone sucking based on one innings, but who else is totally unsurprised that Roy and Denly not only failed but looked totally unsuited to the job at hand?

Haha looking at the posts I missed between the toss and making this one, plenty of you.

 

[_Ed_]

Fantastic from Ireland.

 

[Groundking]

I'm usually the first to talk about how high variance batting is and how **** it is to make sweeping statements about how right you were about someone sucking based on one innings, but who else is totally unsurprised that Roy and Denly not only failed but looked totally unsuited to the job at hand?

Well Denly has been in good form recently, so I didn't expect him to look quite that bad, but yeah it's unsurprising.

Got to admire our commitment to being 30 odd for 3 no matter the circumstance

 

[morgieb]

Great start, but somehow I'm unsuprised.

This is where the real batting starts, though.

 

[MW1304]

Denly looked okay tbf. Until he didn't, obviously. He's in great form too.

Incremental improvements, we're going at a decent run rate, so the usual 15/3 is instead 36/3.

 

[King Pietersen]

This is ****ing rubbish.

 

[Beamer]

England's top order really is shocking. It was against us also. Joe Root is going to have to be in the form of his life during the Ashes.

 

[Howe_zat]

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Now the inevitable is out of the way we can hopefully start to build an innings.

 

[vcs]

Good stuff. This is where England's batting really starts, I guess..

 

[mr_mister]

Oh my.

 

[Groundking]

If we're going to be 30 odd for 3 every ****ing game anyway what's the point of not just bitting the bullet and having JYB open anyway, it's not like he's not batting against the new ball already anyway.

 

[King Pietersen]

What the **** is going on

 

[Prince EWS]

Well Denly has been in good form recently, so I didn't expect him to look quite that bad, but yeah it's unsurprising.

The fact that so many people refer to his recent runs as "good form" rather than "improvement" says a lot IMO.

**** players who are in good form are still ****. And "**** but in good form" is precisely what he looked like. A few of those earlier boundaries would've been edged on a less decisive day for him without doubt IMO; in fact one of them was and went through fourth slip. His defensive technique is miles better than Roy's but you can't be that loose on the drive against the new ball on Day 1.

 

[Flem274*]

oh come on you cant pull out that late. bairstow should be out

 

[wpdavid]

I'm usually the first to talk about how high variance batting is and how **** it is to make sweeping statements about how right you were about someone sucking based on one innings, but who else is totally unsurprised that Roy and Denly not only failed but looked totally unsuited to the job at hand?

As you then said, pretty much all of us. The worse news is that come the Ashes 36 for 3 will be something of a golden age. Credit to the guys running the game. It takes quite something to produce a domestic system that produces absolutely no serious contenders to bat in the top 3.

 

[Prince EWS]

Good stuff. This is where England's batting really starts, I guess..

Worryingly, the real batting also arguably ends once these two are out.

 

[wpdavid]

Unless you're suggesting that our to 3 are a bunch of muppets, I'm missing something here.

 

[weldone]

I hope England is seriously considering playing Woakes, Sam, Moeen and Stokes as their 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th bowler in the Ashes. Their batting needs the extra cushion.