Our bowling is so so predictable I can’t believe we have no fast bowlers around or fit or a top spinner! Don’t help when pope drops a dolly and root didn’t catch that hard one! The Aussies for me would of caught both of them!
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supercity88
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The decision to bowl is only justified if you take 2-3 wickets by lunch. We've missed our chances, haven't bowled full enough and yet again are missing that extra pace and bounce that Wood could generate. Tongue has the extra pace to try and extract something from the pitch, but we've still got Broad, Anderson and Robinson who are similar bowlers. It's madness to not pick Woakes for one of them. Averages over 50 with the bat and under 15 (25 wickets) with the ball. Tongue, Woakes, Broad and Robinson would have been my picks.
Wickets change the game, but it already feels distinctly like our bowling attack is too weak for us to win this test unless we start bowling fuller and take some catches.
Wickets change the game, but it already feels distinctly like our bowling attack is too weak for us to win this test unless we start bowling fuller and take some catches.
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Goes with the job. Pull off (Oo-err) a stunning catch, and you're a hybrid of Captain America and Superman. Drop one, particularly one you really ought to be snaring, and you're a hybrid of Fred West and Harold Shipman. Black or white, no grey.Always got to feel for someone when they've put a chance down in a Test. You're feeling dreadful about it already but then they show it again on the screen and you hear the collected exasperation of the crowd: Oooh! They then show it from another angle, one that makes you look even more culpable, and the exasperation seems to get louder: Ooooh. The cameraman then decides now would be a good time to show a close up of you. Nowhere to hide.
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To be fair England have been very entertaining, and have over achieved in this “Bazball” era, but a bit more balance towards winning would be nice, for an FOC like me at leastDoesn’t matter. We are here to entertain winning doesn’t matter.
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Oh pick, I saw a different word on first glanceTongue looking like an inspired pick
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is it time to change the ball yet
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Just come on this thread, can’t believe Lancs won get in, also heard England have put down a couple of chances, need to break this partnership asap
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True, but there's something almost ghoulish about the way a cricket crowd dissects a drop. I don't think there's another sport where the pain can be so public and so prolonged.Goes with the job. Pull off (Oo-err) a stunning catch, and you're a hybrid of Captain America and Superman. Drop one, particularly one you really ought to be snaring, and you're a hybrid of Fred West and Harold Shipman. Black or white, no grey.
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Gareth Southgate likes this post.True, but there's something almost ghoulish about the way a cricket crowd dissects a drop. I don't think there's another sport where the pain can be so public and so prolonged.