Cricket Thread

DTKOAG said:
Time for Stokes to call it a day.
So very overrated.
70/5 embarrassing
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That’s an overreaction. He’s just come back from injury. His captaincy is key to the way we play. He’s far from the only one to have underperformed in the last 2 tests. He’s won test matches for us from positions that nobody else in the world is capable of, and a few low scores in a couple of tests doesn’t mean he’s finished. He’s still got shit loads to offer.
 
All the credit to Pakistan who made the right choice to change tact to a pitch that spins and is slow of the pitch then bring in two spin bowlers who were to be honest unbelievable! Saying that in the first innings last two test matches our batting has been armature at best technique poor when Bazball won't work on these pitches!

Our batters will carry on won't be dropped because we won't be playing on these kind of pitches now for 2/3 years!
 
Can't decide whether are spinners aren't good enough or our batters.
Pope is averaging less than 35 and should be batting at 6 (if he plays), for me.
Root and Brook are class acts, but we haven't got a decent number 3, so for balance they have to bat SURREY'S Pope at three, Root, then Brook. But it's Pope who is the problem, ultimately.
Stokes is another conundrum.
Has a magic innings in him but he also needs to be at 6 really with Smith 7.

Oh and don't get me started on 'nice 20odd Zak.......'
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
Can't decide whether are spinners aren't good enough or our batters.
Pope is averaging less than 35 and should be batting at 6 (if he plays), for me.
Root and Brook are class acts, but we haven't got a decent number 3, so for balance they have to bat SURREY'S Pope at three, Root, then Brook. But it's Pope who is the problem, ultimately.
Stokes is another conundrum.
Has a magic innings in him but he also needs to be at 6 really with Smith 7.

Oh and don't get me started on 'nice 20odd Zak.......'
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Time after time, our three openers simply don't deliver. One of them may occasionally, but you can virtually bet that the other two will be out cheaply, or for a duck. That, surely, is a pretty important structural area of weakness.
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
Can't decide whether are spinners aren't good enough or our batters.
Pope is averaging less than 35 and should be batting at 6 (if he plays), for me.
Root and Brook are class acts, but we haven't got a decent number 3, so for balance they have to bat SURREY'S Pope at three, Root, then Brook. But it's Pope who is the problem, ultimately.
Stokes is another conundrum.
Has a magic innings in him but he also needs to be at 6 really with Smith 7.

Oh and don't get me started on 'nice 20odd Zak.......'
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They were saying about our spinners who don't change the pace like the Pakistan spinners who are world class compared to leach Rehan and Bashir but Rehan and Bashir can learn it they are still very young Leach though is the old fashioned spinner who is there to tie down an end pick up a couple of wickets!

England though won't change much if anything because they'll take the losses at these countries and concentrate on Australia and India
 
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