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[Marc28]

Is it just me or was bopara just throwing to the first on purpose as I've been taught always to get in to the keeper on the full not to try and injure him on the bounce

[Gerry SA]

ODI cricket is about Chris Woakes' ability. Medium paced dobber getting a few cheap charity wickets.

[FattusCattus]

Bingo! 

(I'm here all week)

[tim2000s]

Is it just me or was bopara just throwing to the first on purpose as I've been taught always to get in to the keeper on the full not to try and injure him on the bounce

Throw it in on the bounce properly and you do a good job of scuffing the ball enough to induce reverse swing.

[SOULMAN1012]

ODI cricket is about Chris Woakes' ability. Medium paced dobber getting a few cheap charity wickets.

Really! Personally I think he is world class mate.

[TBONTB]

Is it just me or was bopara just throwing to the first on purpose as I've been taught always to get in to the keeper on the full not to try and injure him on the bounce

According to TMS they were trying to scuff the ball and get it to reverse! Hence chucking it in hard on the bounce, quite common and often the umpires will tell them to stop!

[rich041187]

Is it just me or was bopara just throwing to the first on purpose as I've been taught always to get in to the keeper on the full not to try and injure him on the bounce

Also to soften the ball to stop it going country miles in the second half of the innings - has little effect for England tho

[WalkingWicket37]

Also to soften the ball to stop it going country miles in the second half of the innings - has little effect for England tho

So it only goes 5 rows into the crowd rather than 25 usually

[rich041187]

Haha you got it!!

[FattusCattus]

Hmmmm - I think it's going to take a special innings from someone here.

Opening with 2 off-spinners indeed - how unsporting!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gerry SA]

Turns out slogging wildly doesn't work in the long run...

[tate035]

Another cook failure. He was out when scored 8. Shocking shot from Ali when we only need 5 an over. At least he has his bowling to fall back on. What does cook have.
It isn't going to happen but England would be better dropping Cook, Bell and Anderson and let them concentrate on Tests only. Big year next year for England test match wise and those 3 aren't good one day players but if only playing test matches they would bring more to that form of cricket than the one day games.

[ppccopener]

it's not Cooks fault, he does not have the expansive game for one day cricket, tests yes he's great but he's too rigid and has been playing that way for a long time

tried skippering your club and dropping the opener down the order because he's had a few low scores only to find,surprise surprise,he cannot muscle it for sixes and fours with a few overs to go??

the fault lies totally  with the ECB and selectors who are becoming a laughing stock for us many England fans

on the plus side Taylor is in again and still going, many on this forum rate him as a high class one day player.....

[tate035]

it's not Cooks fault, he does not have the expansive game for one day cricket, tests yes he's great but he's too rigid and has been playing that way for a long time

tried skippering your club and dropping the opener down the order because he's had a few low scores only to find,surprise surprise,he cannot muscle it for sixes and fours with a few overs to go??

the fault lies totally  with the ECB and selectors who are becoming a laughing stock for us many England fans

on the plus side Taylor is in again and still going, many on this forum rate him as a high class one day player.....

No disrespect but it is Cooks fault. He is the one who can easily take the high ground and admit he is not a one day player and ask not to be selected.
He isn't even a good one day captain. How can he expect to be a good one day player when he is so limited in his shot making.
Many on the forum rate Taylor because like me I can see how he has taken criticism that he received in 2012 and worked so hard to overcome them.
It has made him into a very good one day player and captain. I personally think there are better players that are more suited to test matches but whose to say that once he has become a force in the one day game that he turns his attention to the longer format.

[ppccopener]

50 up for Taylor, no one knows if he will make a test player because he hasn't had the chance, personally I can't think of any reason why he would not be,but he deserves a chance for sure...

As for Cook I see your point,you are asking one hell of a lot from him to do what you are asking.Cook is England Captain-he doesn't run the ECB or even run the selection of players.
There is a huge management team behind England and these people get paid big money to make big decisions.
Cook wants to Captain England and is doing his absolute best to drag England up,any fan can see that...
He is a square peg in a round hole in one dayers,are the top hard management decisions down to him-No they are not..

Failure of ECB Management -yes...added to the tlist of lots of other poor decision making recently