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General Cricket => World Cricket => England => Topic started by: csnew on May 05, 2017, 11:56:52 AM
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Ireland 109-8 - bit of a waste of time this one. Ireland appear to be getting worse year by year.
Not the practice england would have wanted
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To be fair I think 3 ODIs against South Africa is more than e ough practice.
Joe Root and his lovely golden arm
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Was just thinking the same about them going downhill & they want to play test cricket.
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I'm going on Sunday, hoping for a better score from Ireland than that!
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might be wrong but think they are about to get test status, or at least closer than they have ever been
not watching but tracking it on BBC text
good to see Mark Wood back-it really is. Time will tell if his injuries hold up for the whole summer. Could be a weapon for the ICC tournament.
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Fingers crossed he stays fit and can play a big part, Hopefully call time on England turning back to Steve Finn
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Got here and they were 8 down, half a game and a lot of dissapointed fans who were prob planning on coming after work.
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all out 5fer for Rashid..
I see the Ireland captain saying Eoin would be welcomed back to play test cricket for Ireland...mixed feelings about this myself, they are about to get test status, Morgan will not play tests for England.....
hmmmmmm......Morgan is very Irish, it's his Country/ It would be odd for our one day captain to play test cricket for another Country.
perhaps a discussion for another day :)
I think myself Ireland were stronger 5 years ago-some of the same playing now as back then
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I think that's a discussion for another day.
It seems wishful thinking at best from Porterfield to bat first....
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Morgan was asked the other day and said it wouldn't happen
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hales is giving it a crack.
we are a good one day side now, I have high hopes for the tournament when it starts. :)
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As the home nation and given the current side England have, they will be favourites, right? what are the bookies saying?
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At 2/80 i thought Ireland were looking pretty good,
Rashid bowled well, looked like they had zero plan or idea to pick him
Amazing no one can pick him with a white ball, stick a red ball in his hand and he is fodder
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As the home nation and given the current side England have, they will be favourites, right? what are the bookies saying?
Yup England are the favourites. Betting is fairly close though between us Australia and South Africa.
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What bat is Hales using?
Stickers aren't the normal Halestorm
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Yup England are the favourites. Betting is fairly close though between us Australia and South Africa.
South Africa always go in amongst the favourites and always let their fans down. Don't see any reason for this to change this time?
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Right. What have we learnt?
A team we thought was good convincingly beat a team we knew was bad.
Still, at least it was a nice day for it?
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Feel sorry for the paying public, robbed of a decent game of cricket. Not the greatest advert for cricket - Bristol don't get many games of cricket
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dont think we have learnt much to be honest. good to see bairstow get a game, Wood hopefully has no reaction and carries on(that's a massive plus)
Hales got us off to a good start as he has done in the past.
apart from that....dunno. The crowd only got half a game
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Bit disappointing that, heart sunk when we got to the ground to find Ireland chose to bat!
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ah you were there Dr Edge
was Wood taking it easy or at full tilt?
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At 2/80 i thought Ireland were looking pretty good,
Rashid bowled well, looked like they had zero plan or idea to pick him
Amazing no one can pick him with a white ball, stick a red ball in his hand and he is fodder
I think there is a big difference between formats - in Test cricket, batsmen can pat away 2-3 good voers knowing that sooner or later some absolute dross will come along. In the shorter forms, they have to go looking for 7 an over and errors creep in - even the absolute dross balls have potential to take wickets because batsmen try and put too much pace on to muscle them for sixes and end up caught in the deep.
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hales is giving it a crack.
we are a good one day side now, I have high hopes for the tournament when it starts. :)
Whet about the two dollys he gave ?
Proper teams would gobble them up
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ah you were there Dr Edge
was Wood taking it easy or at full tilt?
He looked pretty quick when he came on to try And mop up the tail. Top edge flew for a one bouce 4!
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ah you were there Dr Edge
was Wood taking it easy or at full tilt?
Looked fairly easy in first spell tbh, Joyce played him well too. Second spell when he banged a few in looked a bit tasty. Edit - Tom beat me to it! Was quite impressed with Chase for Ireland, looked a bit of a prospect!
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What bat is Hales using?
Stickers aren't the normal Halestorm
I noticed that as well, looked more like the Aussie stickers, also had a dark grip on it as well.
Any high res shots?
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Found these on Getty
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/679368288 (http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/679368288)
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/679259502 (http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/679259502)
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Looks like the new Aussie market Predator stickers
https://gray-nicolls.com.au/products/predator3-senior-english-willow-bat
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Looks like the new Aussie market Predator stickers
https://gray-nicolls.com.au/products/predator3-senior-english-willow-bat
Odd one that to say they launched a £400+ bat a couple of months ago with his name on.
He just uses whatever he is sent I suppose
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Fun fact: Joe Root now has best bowling figures of 2/9 across all formats. If you don't believe he's the greatest off spinner of all time, you are fake news.
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What bat is Hales using?
Stickers aren't the normal Halestorm
From the highlights today, when Hales got out I'm almost 90% certain the sticker on the top of the handle was the same as the one on Chalkie's Aussie made XP80
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Mark Wood showed today why he should be in the test team
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Instead of Woakes, perchance?
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Just annoyed that Ireland didnt opt to do the same here in Bristol so we got to see a game rather than half of one.
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From the highlights today, when Hales got out I'm almost 90% certain the sticker on the top of the handle was the same as the one on Chalkie's Aussie made XP80
You mean this one?
(http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o744/alasdairwhite/IMG_1616_zpsktw7xyae.jpg) (http://s1341.photobucket.com/user/alasdairwhite/media/IMG_1616_zpsktw7xyae.jpg.html)
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Looks like the new Aussie market Predator stickers
https://gray-nicolls.com.au/products/predator3-senior-english-willow-bat
He started using them while in Melbourne playing grade cricket over the winter, there are videos of some of the games on youtube
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He started using them while in Melbourne playing grade cricket over the winter, there are videos of some of the games on youtube
Was that when he got bounced out by students?
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Instead of Woakes, perchance?
Woakes will be first choice good team man and all that but needs to be looking over his shoulder also
Woods a decent lower order bat.
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sterling showed yesterday(how good is this bloke?) pace onto the bat on good tracks can up the scoring rate
but if your thinking Wood could clean out the tail or lower order batsmen although pretty much everyone bats these days yes totally agree.
its great to see him back and bowling quick. I suspect England will want him at the death as well as a few upfront
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Given how Root has bowled, and with Stokes returning from the IPL, is there anyone else out there that thinks we could play Bairstow as a specialist 7 (in the same way the Aussies used to with Mike Hussey) and have Stokes and Root as the 5th & 6th Bowler?
Probably leaving out Ali would be the obvious choice? Bairstow is just in irresistible form at the moment.
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Yes...hard as it is to fit 11 in I would do exactly that and let Root bowl a bit-he can do the same or better job than Ali
only thing is Butler really has got to play-he is so destructive
so.....Bairstow in for Ali. I suppose Billings has to make way for Jos....which is a shame because he can change a game
but we are talking about the very very best players to win the tournament
Bairstow is just superb,one day or Test match he is one of the best batters in the Country
IMHO :)
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and also if I can count no place for Chris Woakes......as in Wood plays in his place
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and also if I can count no place for Chris Woakes......as in Wood plays in his place
Think we're looking at Woakes, Wood, Stokes and Plunkett/Willey as the 4 pacers.
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Baistow should play he's constantly consistent in all forms
Billing not so.
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sterling showed yesterday(how good is this bloke?) pace onto the bat on good tracks can up the scoring rate
but if your thinking Wood could clean out the tail or lower order batsmen although pretty much everyone bats these days yes totally agree.
its great to see him back and bowling quick. I suspect England will want him at the death as well as a few upfront
That's my thinking wood bowling fast Yorkers
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Got to surely be.......
Roy
Hales
Root
Morgan
Bairstow
Stokes
Buttler
Rashid/Ali
Woakes
Plunkett
Wood
Then you have Ali or Rashid as reserve spinner (whichever doesn't make the final XI)
Also Ball and Willey as two very decent pace bowlers. Plus Billings who failed to put himself in the running yesterday, but who should prove himself in the future!
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Have to agree with Pete on the personnel front, I'd leave the top 6 as they are at the mo and have Bairstow at 7 personally, but either way, it's the best top 7 we've had for donkeys years in the one day stuff.
I have a sneaking suspicion they'll pick Willey ahead of Plunkett, just for the variation of him being left arm (and 75mph....)