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Title: Young Guns England XI
Post by: FattusCattus on January 05, 2019, 08:34:57 PM
So England have soooooooo many young players of promise, I thought it would be fun to select a team for the future from the younglings:

Hamid
Gubbins
Davies
Root
Livingstone
Pope+
Curran
Overton
Curran
Stone
Virdi
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: 19reading87 on January 05, 2019, 08:56:43 PM
Hain!! How can you leave out Hain 🤦🏻‍♂️
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: LEACHY48 on January 05, 2019, 09:06:19 PM
Max holden looks pretty promising,
Harry Brooks is also class

Hameed has been dropped by lancs I heard so he seems to have completely forgotten how to bat!
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: FattusCattus on January 05, 2019, 09:13:53 PM
Get that Hameed to another county (and away from his coaches / father!) and let him start again.

He’s too good to ignore, he’s a test quality player for goodness sake!
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: Manormanic on January 05, 2019, 11:11:00 PM
OK, how about this XI, all currency under 24 (I think)

Hameed
Rhodes
Brook
Holden
Clarke
Pope
S Curran
Fisher
Brookes
Virdi
Mahmood (or Pennington)

Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: Buzz on January 06, 2019, 11:01:23 AM
I have no idea why people are picking someone in a county second team as their great new hope...

Having said that I think Hameed should follow Che Pujara's approach. Reinvent himself as a number three.
Given his technique is pretty solid the suggestion he moves county is a good one. He is clearly going backwards where he is.
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: Manormanic on January 06, 2019, 11:26:36 AM
Interesting isn't it?

I guess the fact that we've all seen him make runs in a range of styles in tough Test conditions blinds us to the horrible mess his technique has become since?
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: FattusCattus on January 06, 2019, 06:15:16 PM
The question is - why did he change anything?
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: Buzz on January 06, 2019, 06:19:34 PM
He broke his finger and got told his hands were too low.

But has anyone see Che bat recently...

Just get better gloves. (Sorry GN lovers!)
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: cricketbadger on January 06, 2019, 07:21:01 PM
He broke his finger and got told his hands were too low.

But has anyone see Che bat recently...

Just get better gloves. (Sorry GN lovers!)

Who told him his hands were too low?
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: goodarmcindy on January 06, 2019, 08:34:25 PM
Don't forget Dan Lawrence at Essex and Jack Burnham, who is back from a drugs ban this season.
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: Gurujames on January 06, 2019, 09:06:33 PM
Dom bess
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: SOULMAN1012 on January 06, 2019, 10:23:23 PM
Daniel Bell-Drummond be interesting to see how he goes in Div1
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: edge on January 07, 2019, 12:37:44 PM
Jofra Archer is 23...

I reckon the best bit about the next generation of potential England players is that there's a good few top 3/4 bats around who've had domestic success over the past season or two - Rhodes, Sibley, Duckett, Brook, Clarke, Livingstone, Bracey, Holden, I'm sure there's more I'm missing. Given that's where the test side has tended to be short, there's bound to be opportunities for some of them over the next couple of years.
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: Manormanic on January 07, 2019, 12:48:56 PM
Strange how I associate Archer with the test squad already...
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: Buzz on January 07, 2019, 01:14:19 PM
Zac Crawley at Kent is another super talented young player.
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: richyreed on January 07, 2019, 03:42:16 PM
Tome Banton is one for the future as well, he is especially destructive in the shorter formats.
Title: Re: Young Guns England XI
Post by: Mpt7 on January 07, 2019, 05:46:18 PM
Tome Banton is one for the future as well, he is especially destructive in the shorter formats.

He banged runs in their 2nd XI in the longer form will be good to see how he goes this year cause he had some exciting innings last year