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[Sam]

Cook out gives us the ideal situation to get Taylor in my opinion therefore I personally feel Stokes unfortunately has to go.

[InternalTraining]

Give Taylor a chance. He can hit...it is a shame he is a water man.

[Kulli]

Cook is now banned from the next match, should hopefully mean Taylor gets a run and hales gets to open.

will a group of supporters ever have been so glad to see their captain banned?

[smokem]

Cook is now banned from the next match, should hopefully mean Taylor gets a run and hales gets to open.

will a group of supporters ever have been so glad to see their captain banned?

Cook effectively dropped by a former Aussie selector!

[uknsaunders]

that's terrific news 

Would love it if Hales, Morgan,Taylor made big scores and Cook couldn't get back in.

[Kulli]

This quote from moeen suggests it may have been a tactical slow over rate, albeit for a different reason than most would hope.

"We knew Cook was on the verge of a ban, the bonus is that it wipes the slate clean before the World Cup."

[tim2000s]

I think this will be an interesting experiment. If, without Cook, we see a decent batting performance, it's going to give the selectors a headache as they are very much pro-Cook whereas the press will be all over it (as will the fans) with "I told you so".

[joeljonno]

The problem is he has performed 'ok' in ODIs with his batting. Not sure about captaincy as he will probably have a plan already created and will stick to it.

It will be interesting to see who comes in/moves position and I think Morgan is lucky as his performances warranted dropping before Cook did.

If he can get a big score and the captaining of the side proves better, there's questions to be asked.

The recent ODI proved that Hales is not the Messiah of English cricket, but he could be a very good player he ups his game another level.


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[wasted_talent]

my personal view is, that Cook should stay as skipper and continue opening the batting in ODI cricket. I genuinely feel on the Oz wickets during the World Cup, he will perform reasonably well. I guess time will tell...

[smilley792]

Hales performance yesterday, I shall take with a pinch of salt. He isn't a number 3. He's an opener. He came in under very different circumstances to what he's used to, with the added pressure of this may be his only chance before the WC. 

He showed flashes of great timing through the point area. He just didn't seem to then time it well when he chose to push on.

Had the Ali run out not happened, he may well have choice to press on much later while Ali Continued to make hay.


hopefully he does well in the next game.


However the ever pessimist inside off me (when it comes to English cricket) foresees that one off hales or Ali will fail, we will get less than 275, and the england camp will declare that it was proof England are better, or just as good with cook opening and he will be there forever....... or at least until we are knocked from the WC. 

[farnham_quins_2]

my personal view is, that Cook should stay as skipper and continue opening the batting in ODI cricket. I genuinely feel on the Oz wickets during the World Cup, he will perform reasonably well. I guess time will tell...

Totally agree! I think if Cook opens with Hales then that's a decent partnership. Have Ali at 3, who can replicate Hales quicker scoring style if we lose a quick wicket. Then Root at 4, Bell at 5 (or other way round depending on situation), Bopara 6, Buttler 7. Hopefully that would set up Bopara/Buttler for the last 10/15 overs and we could actually get somewhere near 300.

[TangoWhiskey]

Will be interesting if England post 350+ top order runs without Cook, though I still imagine the selectors would bring him straight back in.

[Sam]

Us being us will probably bring Bell back for Cook.

[joeljonno]

Us being us will probably bring Bell back for Cook.

Who will bat 3?  Move Hales up to open?  Might be better if that did happen.


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[WalkingWicket37]

Who will bat 3?  Move Hales up to open?  Might be better if that did happen.


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Moeen and Bell to open, everyone else as was in the last game knowing our selectors