ManCitizens.
Well-Known Member
spot on
the new ball is key and if they can take a couple of early wickets the rest will fold sadly ?? the only saving grace is when we lose something has to be done this time by the ECB and changes and many of them and rip up the old plans and sack coaches and players and start again ?? root roy butler have to go ?? how can you defend them even after today batting by root its to little to late and the mess we are in was made by root in the 3 other test, we had very big chances in all 3 test but poor captaining by root let them of the hook and they turned it very quickly to a point we lost a couple of test matches when we had them down to something under 150 and 8 wicket back in the shed and lost badly
that says the captain is not good at what he is doing and the control and big swings in games are by him and his choices in the field and bowling options ?? also the gamble of jimmy anderson in the first test was the first and biggest mistakes he made, that was down to root and not big enough for his boot to say NO ?? why did england not gamble on anderson in the ireland game and they would have seen he was not ready ???
for the next test in a weeks time in want big changes and archer the main man and broad and spinner leach the only people keeping their places in the bowling attack curran must come in and for the batting line god knows give the young lads a chance ?? pope must be nailed on to play but who else then i really don't care but its got to be new blood
Captaincy aside as that’s a different debate entirely but are you really suggesting Root should be dropped completely as a batsman?