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[ProCricketer1982]

you would bat Stokes at 8..

No future at 33 tell that to Rodgers

How long will he be around ? I like him, seems a genuinely  ice bloke and plays in the fight way (unlike Warner), hope he is around for a few years and scores bucket loads. I don't think he'll be around in 2015 though

[ProCricketer1982]

you would bat Stokes at 8..

No future at 33 tell that to Rodgers

Stokes is in for his bowling (8 for in this 5th game wasn't it?), batting is a bonus

[procricket]

Can we not just go and pinch other peoples players..

Maddinson and Lynn would be ok in our top order

[Boydie]

Stokes is in for his bowling (8 for in this 5th game wasn't it?), batting is a bonus

When I first saw Stokes play a few years ago I never thought he was going to be a test bowler. He was bowling in the mid 70s in the keeper up, 6 an over sort of style. It's amazing how he's got that extra pace in such a short time.

[procricket]

Stokes is in for his bowling (8 for in this 5th game wasn't it?), batting is a bonus

In your team or the actual team mate???

Think he is in as a all rounder batsman who bowls currently but it bodes well if he can keep them both up.

Be a strong side him batting at 8.

[ProCricketer1982]

In your team or the actual team mate???

Think he is in as a all rounder batsman who bowls currently but it bodes well if he can keep them both up.

Be a strong side him batting at 8.

That's just mine fella. Selectors probably have him nailed on 6 now.  Would be a good tail with him and the England number 3 (Finn) in it .   Might score a run then

This replay of the England innings isn't looking good, it's worse than the ones before

[Buzz]

does anyone think Eoin Morgan or Ravi Bop might get another chance?

[procricket]

Morgan is enigma i would love him to make it but will he.

Bopara has the talent but the mind???

[Manormanic]

When I first saw Stokes play a few years ago I never thought he was going to be a test bowler. He was bowling in the mid 70s in the keeper up, 6 an over sort of style. It's amazing how he's got that extra pace in such a short time.

Not really - at 18/19 he was a strip of the lad he has become, no great shock that he put wheels on with it.

[procricket]

He is the Wayne Rooney of cricket he plays for the games sake yes there edges to him but you know what your going to get a competitor and somebody who will not back down.

Massive plus this lad time to risk a few more young lads and give them a chance..

[ProCricketer1982]

What faults are people seeing with ballance? Ok so he got pinned once but the rest of the barrage he played as well as anyone can. I thought he looked the best of our new youngsters but am left wondering as some of you have announced worries.   What am I missing fellas?

[Gerry SA]

Yet further evidence that you don't know your cricketing (No Swearing Please) from your elbow.  Robson would have played plenty for NSW were it not for the fact that he was (effectively) ineligible until this season on account of his refusal to give up his domestic qualified player status in the UK - then this season when the Australia domestic qualification rules were changed specifically to allow for Robson to play for NSW (and after much lobbying from, you guessed it, the NSW authorities) he elected instead to spead the Winter with the England Performance Program.

I know common sense is sparse in Yorkshire, but you're a total idiot.

Sam Robson debuted for Middlesex in 2009. Around the time Phillip Hughes got promoted to the Australian Test side. Phil Jaques got badly injured. Simon Katich and Shane Watson where both in the national squad/team.

Yet NSW made no effort to give Robson a chance.

Shows how lowly they thought of him. It wasn't as if any of the other states wanted him either.

After 5 years of County cricket, he's had two decent seasons. 2011, in Div2, 903 runs @ 53. And 2013, Div1, 1180 runs @ 47.

So he's hardly breaking the door down for selection.

If you think he's the saviour, I think you need to see a shrink...

[procricket]

Where is Jeet we could have a proper Nerd Crickinfo Fight off...

IT IS A GAME

[compstallcc]

does anyone think Eoin Morgan or Ravi Bop might get another chance?

i know you beileve strongly that cricket has a lot to do with the mind buzz and i think bopara is a perfect example of that, loads of talent at county stage but apart from those 3 innings against the  WI it seems he cant handle the pressure. His bowling which has come on recently does give the selectors something to think about. Morgan on the other hand i really like watching in odi's but he must have had 15 tests now and i cant say he warrents to come back in the side.

[petehosk]

I know common sense is sparse in Yorkshire, but you're a total idiot.

Less of the pathetic insults and baiting!
Put a lid on this attitude! You do research and start looking like you make a little sense.....then you can't help yourself and have to insult people!