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[ProCricketer1982]

tredwell and trott

what an exciting brand of decision-making emerging - always breaking boundaries. #SameOldSameOld

Whats wrong with trott? He's pure class.

[SLC]

What more can Lyth do to get in?

[Buzz]

I think that's slightly harsh on Tredwell, thought he was bowling ok in the warm ups - I know it was against a distinctly average side but still was picking up wickets.

Should be nowhere near the side in fairness, but if hes picking up wickets who cares ! And who is going to really replace him ?

who else - well we can start with Adam Riley - on the basis that Kent think he is better.

then we can think about any other spinner...! Perhaps Rashid, who was the leading champo spinner

oh and trott has gone for 0 

[csnew]

Time for trott to go home with burn out yet?

Don't see ballance lasting too long either

[Jason_Yuan]

o god trotty....

[ProCricketer1982]

Oh dear.. Here we go

Very very very lucky Cook... Full ball, outside off.. Nicked...

Cooks not going to last long if the wi bowlers get their act together. Unfortunately they look wayward so he might get a few even though he's just proved he's still got his massive issue

[peristocle]

Nearly Cook too!

[rbblack]

I don't understand Moores line of thinking with selection here. It's been proven that his "safe" selections don't work and that we need to pursue new blood so why do it again here with Trott and Tredwell.
Trott going proves my point. I am sure tredwell will be fairly economical. Not looking to the future or using assets they should be....
#MooresOut

[tim2000s]

Trott out 3rd ball v Windies. KP scores 100 vs Oxford MMCU. Hmmmm.

[ProCricketer1982]

Trott out 3rd ball v Windies. KP scores 100 vs Oxford MMCU. Hmmmm.

You missed out Cook bring really really lucky with his usual nick

[Kieron_BT]

As much as it is great to see Trott back in the team, how can they possibly justify that Trott is a better pick in front of Lyth? On what basis have they said that Trott is in better form that Lyth or more capable of opening instead of him?

[ProCricketer1982]

As much as it is great to see Trott back in the team, how can they possibly justify that Trott is a better pick in front of Lyth? On what basis have they said that Trott is in better form that Lyth or more capable of opening instead of him?

What were their avgs last year?

Trott has proven test quality and batsvatb3 (which in theory means he is quite capable of opening)

[edge]

Give Trott a chance, don't see many other players with close to 4000 test runs around we can choose from! Was a decent ball too tbf, sometimes early you nick one against the new ball. Hoping he can make a good comeback, England is definitely a better side with him in.

As for Tredwell, decent bowler but don't see the point of picking him, especially with Stokes in the team to provide bowling backup if Rashid wasn't going well. His selection based heavily on still trying to find a Swann replacement I suspect.

Also a little disappointed to see Jordan playing ahead of Wood.

[SLC]

Well it's a brave new era so far!

[WalkingWicket37]

West Indies: Devon Smith, Kraigg Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Jermaine Blackwood, Denesh Ramdin (capt & wk), Jason Holder, Jerome Taylor, Kemar Roach, Sulieman Benn.

England: Alastair Cook (capt), Jonathan Trott, Gary Ballance, Joe Root, Ian Bell, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (wk), Chris Jordan, Stuart Broad, James Tredwell. James Anderson.


so the team eng pick is, once again, not the one I would pick.
Nice to see the Kent second team bowler getting a game in our test match team!!

Lot of "all rounders" in that side resulting in a long tail...

For me Plunkett for Jordan, Rashid for Tredwell and Lyth for Trott would've been a better shout.