Topic: England vs West Indies series.... (Read 25924 times)

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #225 on:** March 31, 2022, 09:01:51 AM »

Quote from: Manormanic on March 31, 2022, 08:33:30 AM

To be fair, conditions in the first half of last season were utterly ghastly for batsmen.

I'm not sure they were. I seem to remember a lot of runs were scored.

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #226 on:** March 31, 2022, 09:09:32 AM »

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/30/alec-stewart-county-cricket-england-high-class-test-players

aditel007 · « **Reply #227 on:** March 31, 2022, 01:04:06 PM »

Quote from: jonny77 on March 30, 2022, 02:54:52 PM

Can you expect many openers in FC to avg 40 + tho really? Most games played when the balls hooping around and doing absolute bits off the seam too. Its a tough job. Expectations around averages for openers in the UK probably need revising maybe?

agreed but then they should be able to translate their basic batting skills to hundreds on batting friendly tracks...some of the ones in Ashes and in WI were made for batting...basic skill is a major issue

aditel007 · « **Reply #228 on:** March 31, 2022, 01:04:56 PM »

Quote from: Bats_Entertainment on March 31, 2022, 09:09:32 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/30/alec-stewart-county-cricket-england-high-class-test-players

didnt know Stewart had that good a sense of humour

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #229 on:** March 31, 2022, 06:50:13 PM »

Quote from: aditel007 on March 31, 2022, 01:04:56 PM

didnt know Stewart had that good a sense of humour

"Stewart blamed a congested Test calendar as well as the proliferation of T20 franchise leagues around the world for the decline. With Kolpak contracts having come to an end last year, restricting the influx of South African and Caribbean players with Test experience, the standard of the Championship will need to be raised by locally produced talent, he added."

Add central contracts, and too much domestic T20, and that other nonsense.

How could county cricket possibly be expected to deliver more?

ppccopener · « **Reply #230 on:** March 31, 2022, 07:23:02 PM »

Stewart is just pushing his players, and maybe thinks England should still be playing Burns and Pope. The latter has got lots of talent but has had chances and his place is at the moment with someone else.

The best thing Stewart could do for Pope is bat him 3 all season unless there is another England candidate to do it.

In other words any overseas players get told they move down.

Our middle order is too crowded. There�s Josh Bohannon and whispers of a James Vince recall being banded about.

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #231 on:** April 01, 2022, 07:00:31 AM »

Advice for Alec Stewart there.

('Any overseas player' = Hashim Amla.)

FattusCattus · « **Reply #232 on:** April 12, 2022, 10:55:13 AM »

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/james-anderson-on-england-dropping-ive-stopped-trying-to-make-sense-of-it-1310438

Hmmm, not the greatest of reading from the perspective of ECB management.

Mond you, makes you wonder if there's any mileage in reports that the two of them are difficult to mamage.

ppccopener · « **Reply #233 on:** April 12, 2022, 01:11:39 PM »

There�s clearly an issue as a few of us have picked up on. Root is quoted as saying there was an improvement in attitude on the Caribbean tour.

Well that�s good but we still lost the series and it�s a dismal run we are on.

If Anderson and broad are in the best 5 bowlers come next month they have to play.
Anderson has not shown any sign of deterioration in the last 12 months.

Maybe he gives the batsmen what for in the dressing room�.maybe his has been the voice saying we don�t have enough runs�

golders · « **Reply #234 on:** April 12, 2022, 04:29:33 PM »

Are we really bottom of the test rankings?

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