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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 10:09:42 GMT
The S*n celebrating a wonderful summer of cricket in the only way they know how:
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Post by Cast no shadow on Sept 18, 2019 13:50:25 GMT
Ahem
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Post by partickpotter on Sept 18, 2019 14:44:18 GMT
I can see him getting an openers slot in the winter tours with Denly going to three allowing Root to bat at his favoured position of 4. I suspect they’ll not go for Foakes meaning Buttler and Bairstow retaining their places. This does, of course, mean the end of the line, for now, for Roy in test cricket.
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Post by followyoudown on Sept 18, 2019 16:31:27 GMT
Him and Zak Crawley seem to be the heavily tipped young batsman and they will probably get a go yet if you look at their actual records they are both fairly ordinary and compararable or worse than the likes of Vince, Westley,Lyth etc etc who couldnt make the step up. Dont see things improving unless talk of 2 overseas players per side is bought in that way these players will face some top quality bowling before they get to the test side.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2019 16:55:59 GMT
I can see him getting an openers slot in the winter tours with Denly going to three allowing Root to bat at his favoured position of 4. I suspect they’ll not go for Foakes meaning Buttler and Bairstow retaining their places. This does, of course, mean the end of the line, for now, for Roy in test cricket. I would say so, Denly has done enough to keep his place I guess although I remain unconvinced. This looks fairly well balanced, although I would still go with Foakes and give Buttler a rest from the New Zealand series: Burns Sibley Denly Root Stokes Pope Buttler (wk)
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Post by partickpotter on Sept 18, 2019 17:19:33 GMT
I can see him getting an openers slot in the winter tours with Denly going to three allowing Root to bat at his favoured position of 4. I suspect they’ll not go for Foakes meaning Buttler and Bairstow retaining their places. This does, of course, mean the end of the line, for now, for Roy in test cricket. I would say so, Denly has done enough to keep his place I guess although I remain unconvinced. This looks fairly well balanced, although I would still go with Foakes and give Buttler a rest from the New Zealand series: Burns Sibley Denly Root Stokes Pope Buttler (wk) Can’t disagree with that - quite happy to see Pope given a shot. Although I see you retained Buttler after all! The big debate about the rest of the line up, is do we still go with Broad and Anderson. If we are picking our bets team we do; but if we are planning for the future we don’t. Because there is no way we can go into the next Ashes series down under with those two. We need to develop another bowler. Preferably another one who can regularly send it down over 90mph.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2019 7:43:15 GMT
I would say so, Denly has done enough to keep his place I guess although I remain unconvinced. This looks fairly well balanced, although I would still go with Foakes and give Buttler a rest from the New Zealand series: Burns Sibley Denly Root Stokes Pope Buttler (wk) Can’t disagree with that - quite happy to see Pope given a shot. Although I see you retained Buttler after all! The big debate about the rest of the line up, is do we still go with Broad and Anderson. If we are picking our bets team we do; but if we are planning for the future we don’t. Because there is no way we can go into the next Ashes series down under with those two. We need to develop another bowler. Preferably another one who can regularly send it down over 90mph. I think we have to look to the future and rotate Anderson/Broad going forward. The likes of Stone need game time on the big stage......
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