Ilovehappyendings
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Was Alty Fan umpiring?
There’s long been a culture of the England captain allowing his bowlers too much leeway. Root, or whoever replaces him, needs to be more ruthless and demanding of them. English conditions call for line and length.Truly pathetic. Apart from Root and Butler the batsmen only just garnered enough runs between them to beat the total extras.
Root should be sacked immediately as captain. The priority this morning was wickets but he allowed the bowlers to self indulgently mount a revenge bouncer war. I wont bother mentioning his abysmal field setting. Botham was sacked mid series for less.
Roooooot ouououout.
cos that worked so well with JR in the Ashes.We might as well fuck off playing “test” 1,2 and 3’s. We haven’t got any. There’s none coming through. Get malan in and maybe some of the white ball lads in. Or persevere with Pope and put him at 3. Burns (because there’s no one else), malan, Pope, root, bairstow, Livingstone, butler (but play attacking), Willy, Robinson, Anderson, broad for next test
Broad is out for the series.We might as well fuck off playing “test” 1,2 and 3’s. We haven’t got any. There’s none coming through. Get malan in and maybe some of the white ball lads in. Or persevere with Pope and put him at 3. Burns (because there’s no one else), malan, Pope, root, bairstow, Livingstone, butler (but play attacking), Willy, Robinson, Anderson, broad for next test
again, worked so well in the Ashes.We should pick one day hitters to open the batting Burns Sibley Crawley and now Hameed ain’t the answer