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[Buzz]

'World class' Buttler goes in test cricket for a duck,, shock horror he nicks off outside off stump.

Simply not good enough in proper cricket. Only suited to white ball stuff where you just throw the bat through the line

that is a bit bonkers!

Give him a chance, everyone makes a 0 every so often!

[ProCricketer1982]

Collapse is on - 4-21 since Bell departed last night.

. All just hitting merchants. Stokes played a stupid shot given the field.. Buttler was hopeless, tredwell shouldn't even be a pro.. Broad up next.. Good god

[ProCricketer1982]

that is a bit bonkers!

Give him a chance, everyone makes a 0 every so often!

Oh come on, do you really think he's good enough for test match cricket? Feet do nothing, head nowhere near the ball.. All bottom hand.. Will Nick off time and time again and you know it.

[Buzz]

Oh come on, do you really think he's good enough for test match cricket? Feet do nothing, head nowhere near the ball.. All bottom hand.. Will Nick off time and time again and you know it

Yes - I think Buttler is massively talented and will come good.

[ppccopener]

eh up Broad up next  Interesting stance when facing the quick stuff. He's at square leg

or as Tuffers said of the abandoned Jamiaca test match

''I put on all the protection I could find, asked for middle guard, stood my bat up in the crater I was looking at and walked off'

[TangoWhiskey]

I have to say I agree with Pro there. He doesn't have an answer for full outside off stump. It's just not his game.

[ProCricketer1982]

Yes - I think Buttler is massively talented and will come good.

He'll do well in white ball stuff but not tests. Only tests he'll do well in is when he has to basically play white ball cricket style etc.  he's got awesome talent, just not good enough for test cricket.

Broad gone for a duck.. We have a looooooong tail.. Crap top 3, crap bottom 4/5 (depending how you rate Buttler). Bell, root and stokes will have to score loads every game

[golders]

Adam Gilchrist played test Match cricket,white ball stylee-he could be a bit lose outside the off stick from time to time.

Stuart Broad has the major batting yips! I hope he books a few sessions with Dr Stephen Peters...

[ProCricketer1982]

Adam Gilchrist played test Match cricket,white ball stylee-he could be a bit lose outside the off stick from time to time.

Stuart Broad has the major batting yips! I hope he books a few sessions with Dr Stephen Peters...

Gilly was better than people give him credit for, he wasn't just a hitter

[uknsaunders]

Similarities to when Sri Lanka turned us over at Headingley. England crusing, Bell gets out, England collapse.

[SLC]

Buttler will come good. Broad looks like he'd be one spot too high at 11.

[ppccopener]

broad can't bat anymore, we might as well of picked an out and out bowler -Wood.

[smilley792]

So if buttler is sent back to lancs. Is Bairstow a good enough red ball player?


England need to start from a blank sheet. And not worry about upsetting the old boys.


Also anyone see graeme smiths recent tweet r.e strausse? ?



Lol

[ProCricketer1982]

So if buttler is sent back to lancs. Is Bairstow a good enough red ball player?


England need to start from a blank sheet. And not worry about upsetting the old boys.


Also anyone see graeme smiths recent tweet r.e strausse? ?

Pick for WI, NZ and ashes whoever the top two keepers in county cricket were in 2013/14. Reward form (like with lyth etc). Send Buttler to play county cricket to earn his spot rather than get it on white ball merit. We don't need to look to have a player for x years all the time.. Just pick the best ones and then f they aren't performing as you want (say 40+ for a wk nowadays) then move them on.. Of they are, then they keep their spot.

[KIPPERS]

Jimmy will get us through to 500