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[Gerry SA]

Sorry but what's this nonsense about humble pie?

Prior's dipped his bread vs a clubbie attack. Soon as he faces proper fast bowlers he'll be exposed again.

Joe Root's a limited player. And he's shown he capable of scoring runs in England.

Neither have proven anything thus far. 

[Nickauger]

Sorry but what's this nonsense about humble pie?

Prior's dipped his bread vs a clubbie attack. Soon as he faces proper fast bowlers he'll be exposed again.

Joe Root's a limited player. And he's shown he capable of scoring runs in England.

Neither have proven anything thus far.

Yawn! Should have known you'd chirp up at some point! Fairly sure that last time I checked you can't score runs against Steyn and Morkel, when you're playing against Kulasekera and Pradeep. Its even fairly difficult to score runs against Ajmal, or Tahir (Snigger), when you're playing against Herath. In fact mate, you can only score runs against what is in front of you! Even your precious South Africans will have bolstered their average against some poor attacks!

[Gerry SA]

Yawn! Should have known you'd chirp up at some point! Fairly sure that last time I checked you can't score runs against Steyn and Morkel, when you're playing against Kulasekera and Pradeep. Its even fairly difficult to score runs against Ajmal, or Tahir (Snigger), when you're playing against Herath. In fact mate, you can only score runs against what is in front of you! Even your precious South Africans will have bolstered their average against some poor attacks!

Yeah pal we've feasted on England's clubbies for a long time now 😂

[Nickauger]

Yeah pal we've feasted on England's clubbies for a long time now

Well there you go bud, runs against England don't mean (No Swearing Please) either then! Won't hear any argument from me about SL being anything other than average! But the fact of the matter is, you can only score runs against whats in front of you! Seeing as England are the 3rd best test team (statistically), behind Aus and SA, surely its right that they shouldn't find scoring runs against those 2 teams easy. No other team has a bowling attack that comes close!

[MD2812]

Sorry but what's this nonsense about humble pie?

Prior's dipped his bread vs a clubbie attack. Soon as he faces proper fast bowlers he'll be exposed again.

Joe Root's a limited player. And he's shown he capable of scoring runs in England.

Neither have proven anything thus far.

Yawn!

 How dare we enjoy 2 batsman of the team we support, and batsman we had doubted, scoring runs.

This is definitely accurate because they both came in with England cruising on 700-3 and didn't have to get themselves out of a hole England had batted themselves into.

[WalkingWicket37]

Ah Gerry is back!
I was hoping him not posting narrow minded rants about nothing in particular when someone did well would've been a more permenant thing! 

[Cedrictoad]

Has anybody else noticed how much Shane Warne repeats himself and talks general rubbish?

[Manormanic]

Has anybody else noticed how much Gerry SA repeats himself and talks general rubbish?

This! 

[Alvaro]

Nice to see Broad's whacking it about a bit.

[mini998]

Stumping was out imo, was clear from stump cam.

[Cedrictoad]

Surely, benefit of the doubt.

[mini998]

There was doubt, it was clear on stump cam,

oh well what else is new...

[Gerry SA]

England's attack looks very one dimensional and pretty ordinary.

It's no secret the pitch is pretty benign. Thus negating green top demon Anderson to a bit part roll.

But Jordan is far from bowling quick. More medium fast.

And Plunkett doesn't look like a Test bowler.

As for Ali's spin, read charity/throw down bowling.

Axe Plunkett, get a proper spinner in.
Axe Ali and get Stokes in.

Broad
Anderson
Jordan
Stokes
Panesar/Kerrigan/Tredwell

Would be a far better balanced act and in the long run Finn has to be in the England side.

[Sam]

Stokes can't even do it at county level at the moment so shouldn't be near the squad yet, needs a bit more time to get into it in my opinion, I hope Woakes gets a game very soon.

[Sam]

With the youth available at the moment its nice to imagine the possible XI in 5 years time if all players live up to expectations (clearly with some deviation here) :

Cook
Robson
Taylor
Ballance
Root
Buttler
Stokes
Woakes
Broad
(World class spinner please?) / Borthwick
Finn