*Official* Second Test (Lord's, London) 28 June–2 July

[Fuller Pilch]

Crawley
duckett
root
bairstow
stokes
foakes wk
moeen
potts
robinson
broad
wood

a possibility if pope is injured and a rest for Anderson but who knows ?

Why drop Brook?

 

[CartyDurham]

Why drop Brook?

Genuine oversight that one . Take out Robinson and slot brook in before stokes

 

[Ashes81]

For the life of me I don't know what Liam Dawson needs to do to get a go.

Averages 35 with the bat and has 22 wkts at under 17 this season.

 

[CartyDurham]

For the life of me I don't know what Liam Dawson needs to do to get a go.

Averages 35 with the bat and has 22 wkts at under 17 this season.

Could be one of those like Hales with Morgan

he deserves an opportunity though

 

[Niall]

Cam is a gun, plenty of time for him to come good in this series, in either department.

He's raw but I have seen enough from him to suggest he will be gun cricketer so needs to be persisted with especially in conditions outside his comfort zone as long term it will be worth it. Its not the youngest of sides which is another reason to back him.

 

[Croadymeister]

You could also argue Archer wasn’t looked after like a 90mph+ bowler should be being asked to bowl 8/9 over spells!

Yes we are definitely paying the price now

 

[Croadymeister]

Atleast Edgbaston crowds were engaging.

Yeah crowds are always very flat at Lord's

 

[ashley bach]

He's raw but I have seen enough from him to suggest he will be gun cricketer so needs to be persisted with especially in conditions outside his comfort zone as long term it will be worth it. Its not the youngest of sides which is another reason to back him.

Problem is his bowling. Reckon he's better than what we tend to think but he just doesn't seem to get any serious amount of overs bowled.
If he's not producing many overs at a young age that's a bad sign for future amount of production. His batting will need to step up if that's the case.

 

[Croadymeister]

Crawley
duckett
root
bairstow
stokes
foakes wk
moeen
potts
robinson
broad
wood

a possibility if pope is injured and a rest for Anderson but who knows ?

I forgot brook , so take out Robinson and slot brook in at 4 or 5

So Tongue gets dropped then

 

[Michelle Fivefer]

Will you be singing Ben Stokes Barmy Arny?

. No. We are practising a work called The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace - by Karl Jenkins. However, if encores are called for ……

 

[Michelle Fivefer]

Feels a bit like the end of an era.

It IS the end of an era.

 

[morgieb]

Unless of course you think the Aussies and Pakistan produce green tops.

Those 2021 Australian wickets were genuinely kinda green tbf.

Fair point re: Pakistan though.

 

[Adorable Asshole]

I think Glenn McGrath is another one like that - a snarly, aggressive so and so on the pitch but apparently a real gent off it.

Not to elephants tho

 

[Son Of Coco]

Archer has just been unlucky with injuries,you could maybe argue that Wood wasn't managed better earlier in his test career

Archer was 'Rooted'.

 

[Starfighter]

Those 2021 Australian wickets were genuinely kinda green tbf.

Fair point re: Pakistan though.

Kinda green? They were some of the greenest pitches I've ever seen here.

 

[Michelle Fivefer]

Crawley
duckett
root
bairstow
stokes
foakes wk
moeen
potts
robinson
broad
wood

a possibility if pope is injured and a rest for Anderson but who knows ?

I forgot brook , so take out Robinson and slot brook in at 4 or 5

Isn’t Bairstow going to be miffed if you take the gloves off him?
Are we happy with Crawley?

 

[Burgey]

Bowling first was absolutely the right call. But you definitely don't still want to be bowling by stumps then; you're liable to be well behind the game in that case - not this far behind mind you

I think once they picked four quicks they really had no choice but to bowl first, especially in those conditions. They just didn’t bowl well enough over the day, and didn’t take their chances early on when they did.

 

[Prince EWS]

Bowling first was absolutely the right call. But you definitely don't still want to be bowling by stumps then; you're liable to be well behind the game in that case - not this far behind mind you

Stokes probably assumed Cummins would declare at tea anyway.

 

[Burgey]

Believe it or not it has taken me till now to realise why Root wears the number 66

I had him more an 88 kinda guy tbh

 

[Prince EWS]

I had him more an 88 kinda guy tbh

That'd just give him more questions to answer.