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General Cricket => World Cricket => England => Topic started by: WalkingWicket37 on September 21, 2017, 12:52:53 PM
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With the penultimate round of Championship games underway, it appears people who may have been in consideration for a seat on the plane to Australia are picking up injuries.
Could this have an impact on the squad when it is announced?
The injuries I've seen so far today are:
Toby Roland-Jones
Unable to bowl due to a stiff back
Ben Duckett
Out for six to eight weeks with a broken finger
Haseeb Hameed
Retired hurt after getting struck on his right hand. (Previous injury was to his left hand)
Received lengthy on field treatment but was unable to hold a bat.
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Kumar Sangakkara with a dodgy passport ?
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Broad has some heel issues as well like previous ashes trip and wood still out with ankle issues
Does hameed need a decent pair of gloves?
How would he of coped with the green pimple cotton ones?
Hands up who remembers those from school days?
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Hands up !!!!
Stupid school kit bag still had some pimpled gloves in my last year of primary school in 1990 ! Fffffaaaaaaarrrrrkkkkkk it hurt getting hit wearing them . ;) :D
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Wore mind for years they were much preferred to the buky modern glove played against some seriously quick bowling but never had an hand or finger injury.
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My first pair of 'gloves' as a kid. They must have been good, there was a picture of Sir Geoffrey on the box.
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Hameed heroically trying to win the game for Lancashire. It not England though, so it doesn't matter.
Did anyone have the spiked gloves without palms? Actually, I'm not sure they could have been called gloves?
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Update: he's failed.
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Update: he's failed.
Update update: he's broken a finger.
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Update update: he's broken a finger.
But he'd already broken it before he went out to bat again?
Anyway, he's got a broken finger.
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Without a doubt the fragmented nature of county championship has hindered our chances in the Ashes this season.
We need to start addressing bigger issues than "are we picking the right players?"
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Wore mind for years they were much preferred to the buky modern glove played against some seriously quick bowling but never had an hand or finger injury.
Are you sure senior? Seriously quick bowling with a pair of cotton gloves with some rubber dimples on? I faced Alex Tudor 2 season ago, not as quick as when he played for Surrey/England of course, but out of my 14 or whatever I got that day my gloves took a pounding. It was lifting off a length on a good track unlike the bounce I am normally used to.
After I was out I was glad of the protection from modern day gloves, they saved me from any broken digits..
Do you not think modern lightweight protection is better these days? It surely must be for us clubbies....
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6 weeks for a break will take him to 6th November. More than enough time. Stop punching it use the fu king bat!
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Toby R-J. out with a stress fracture of the lower back. I think he was nailed on for a place as a back up seamer in the Ashes squad.
Who goes alongside Broad, Anderson, Stokes and Woakes, in the pace bowling slot?
Can Mark Wood's foot injury heal in time to take the pounding of hard Aussie pitches (must eb a serious risk)
Finn, perhaps? But he has had a poor season up to the last match (by his standards). He does have experience, height and pace, though.
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Where has jake ball gone? Presume he's injured. Door has to be open for Finn I would think now
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Can't see why they wouldn't take Plunko. I reckon he'd get lift and pace from some club f the pitches out there.
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Plunkett??
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there are two slots if Toblerone is out. Broad, Anderson, Woakes, Wood and Sturkes nailed on.
Contenders would be Ball, Finn, Plunkett and possibly Curran T. The wrong Overton is fit, and Coad is not a bowler for Aussie pitches.
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Where has jake ball gone? Presume he's injured. Door has to be open for Finn I would think now
He's fit and playing for Notts, he's just garbage
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Please not Finn. Hearing him get called in as a replacement and talked up for his rapid pace before watching him lob all sorts down at 82mph got tedious a long time ago I'm afraid.
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I think it will be Ball or maybe Plunkett. But you have to remember this isn't like a normal Ashes squad selection because the Lions are touring at the same time so in theory anyone on that tour as well can just get called up to play.
On the Hameed broken finger. It is happening simply because he plays with low hands going at the ball therefore has more risk of them getting hit. E.g. Nasser.
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Please not Finn. Hearing him get called in as a replacement and talked up for his rapid pace before watching him lob all sorts down at 82mph got tedious a long time ago I'm afraid.
Finn is no longer the same bowler who burst into the test areana aged 20 or the bowler who achieved the fastest 50 test wickets for his country nor has he been since England tampered with his action.
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Finn is no longer the same bowler who burst into the test areana aged 20 or the bowler who achieved the fastest 50 test wickets for his country nor has he been since England tampered with his action.
Yes he seems to be lacking pace now when he should be in his best years
To get him back on the right road correct he was sorted by Richard Johnson (sunbury cc) and big Gus himself
Believe to do that they scrapped everything England told him
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Can't see why they wouldn't take Plunko. I reckon he'd get lift and pace from some club f the pitches out there.
For me Plunkett is the exact type of bowler they want to take. They went crazy a few tours back (different management) and took Tremlett and Rankin over a well in form Onions because of their height and aggression. This time though unlike then I believe Plunkett could be a genuine starter for England no matter where.
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Can't see why they wouldn't take Plunko. I reckon he'd get lift and pace from some club f the pitches out there.
Plunkett should be favourite one of the fittest England players gives you hundred percent rarely fails with the ball and can bat
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A lot is written about England batting but the bowling is a bigger issue England bowling is to samey seamers will do the bulk of the bowling and will struggle to take 20 wickets can see Warner and Smith scoring big runs against the up and down straight stuff unless the ball reverses for jimmy.
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Trouble with Wood and Plunkett is they both perform really well and then get injured!!
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Trouble with Wood and Plunkett is they both perform really well and then get injured!!
Yes wood always looks a great prospect but can't see Wood making it through the tour without an injury from hard wickets
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I think Wood is massively overrated.Yes,can be slippery for one spell,but does naff all with the ball. I too would go with Plunkett but TR-J will be a huge miss!
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Plunkett should be favourite one of the fittest England players gives you hundred percent rarely fails with the ball and can bat
What happened to Plunkett as a Test player?
He was in the side and performing well, then just seemed to be dropped for no reason (or was he injured?) and hasn't been called back up since.
From memory didn't he have some kind of disciplinary issue with Yorkshire at the start of a season which meant he didn't make their Championship side?
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For me Plunkett is the exact type of bowler they want to take. They went crazy a few tours back (different management) and took Tremlett and Rankin over a well in form Onions because of their height and aggression. This time though unlike then I believe Plunkett could be a genuine starter for England no matter where.
When they took tremlett in 2010 it was a great pick in he end... rankin was a copy of that selection but he didn't have the quality tremlett did
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Are you sure senior? Seriously quick bowling with a pair of cotton gloves with some rubber dimples on? I faced Alex Tudor 2 season ago, not as quick as when he played for Surrey/England of course, but out of my 14 or whatever I got that day my gloves took a pounding. It was lifting off a length on a good track unlike the bounce I am normally used to.
After I was out I was glad of the protection from modern day gloves, they saved me from any broken digits..
Do you not think modern lightweight protection is better these days? It surely must be for us clubbies....
Although I played on Birmingham league tracks and they were mainly decent wouldnt Have face anyone as quick as Tudor but had another think and can't recall any hand injuries in fact back then i was more concerned that i would get my helmet less head knocked off yes modern day gloves will probably give all the protection club players will ever need but having tiny hands I can't get along with all the padding and bulk it also doesn't help that I grip the bat as if I am holding an axe therefore only have bottom of the range GN gloves the thinnest available ones which allow you some feel the bat handle.
Did bat once using just cotton inners but gave up that experiment after getting hit on the back of the hand.
Used to look at the gloves Alex Stuart wore with all that strapping and wondered if he knew his hands were on the handle.
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Jamie Porter has 70 div. 1 wickets at 17; but will probably be considered too much of an 'English conditions' bowler.
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Although I played on Birmingham league tracks and they were mainly decent wouldnt Have face anyone as quick as Tudor but had another think and can't recall any hand injuries in fact back then i was more concerned that i would get my helmet less head knocked off yes modern day gloves will probably give all the protection club players will ever need but having tiny hands I can't get along with all the padding and bulk it also doesn't help that I grip the bat as if I am holding an axe therefore only have bottom of the range GN gloves the thinnest available ones which allow you some feel the bat handle.
Did bat once using just cotton inners but gave up that experiment after getting hit on the back of the hand.
Used to look at the gloves Alex Stuart wore with all that strapping and wondered if he knew his hands were on the handle.
Are you wearing them back to front?
The padding goes on the back of your hand, so shouldn't effect the feel of the bat handle? ???
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Are you wearing them back to front?
The padding goes on the back of your hand, so shouldn't effect the feel of the bat handle? ???
There's that much padding in the front of some of these gloves it's hard to tell
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but having tiny hands
Is that you, Donald?
I thought you had your unfeasibly small hands full with Rocket Man? Not Big Phil, 58, from the pub?
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Jamie Porter has 70 div. 1 wickets at 17; but will probably be considered too much of an 'English conditions' bowler.
He and Coad do perhaps fall into that category. The problem is, you've got two such - Anderson and Woakes - in your main three, so need different options.
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I don't think Coad will be even close to selection.
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Is that you, Donald?
I thought you had your unfeasibly small hands full with Rocket Man? Not Big Phil, 58, from the pub?
What !!!!
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I don't think Coad will be even close to selection.
I just said that, on account of the pitches. If it were, say, New Zealand or the Windies, I reckon he'd be talked about.
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I think they need to take a tall, bouncy one (but not Finn)