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[Johnny]

...nope, or Matty Hayden, or Davey Warner, or Virender Sehwag. Filthy sloggers the lot of 'em

[Seniorplayer]

...nope, or Matty Hayden, or Davey Warner, or Virender Sehwag. Filthy sloggers the lot of 'em

Well put like that lets hope Hales gets his Chance and hopefully proves me wrong.

[hammersjr]

Anyone think stoneman would be in the running for the opening role?

[dougydee]

Does Luke Wrights name ever get brought up? I've only ever seen him here playing for the Melbourne Stars in the T20. He seems a bit like Warner in a short form player that could change a game in 4 or 5 day cricket.

[suraj1108]

haddin out for 3rd test & nevill gets a thumbs up;
http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2015/content/story/903833.html

[tim2000s]

Does Luke Wrights name ever get brought up? I've only ever seen him here playing for the Melbourne Stars in the T20. He seems a bit like Warner in a short form player that could change a game in 4 or 5 day cricket.

He never managed to get picked for the test side. Most of his performances at county level came in the shorter form of the game and he's never translated what he could do in the short form fully into the longer format.

[Alvaro]

I'm not sure that's true Tim, his FC record is good and he regularly scores hundreds. He is, however, leg side dominant and would probably have required his bowling to progress as much as his batting though.

I think he was on the last SA tour but not much else. Face possibly didn't fit either.

[csnew]

Looks like finn might be playing today

[L21]

I would love to see England choose Hales and let him go out with the intention of blasting 50 off the first 10 overs.

That is where England come most under pressure, due to a lack of quick scoring at the start. Yes he will have failures but so does Warner, however, when it comes off it is worth it!

Australia's saving grace is that they have always had a quality number 3 who could probably open. Where as England... well we struggle for 1,2,3 and 4 at the moment.


Luke Wright is a fantastic player (Have to be bias towards my county) however, he has never stepped up when putting on the Lions, he really struggled in the T20 for England and that seemed to be the end of him. He has had a really good year this year but I doubt that his name even gets mentioned. 

Maybe the selectors are hesitant to pick him due to his T20 ability and playing across the country's in the various T20 formats. 

Not that I am complaining as he is pulling Sussex through a lot of games at present.

[Seniorplayer]

50 of 10 overs would be good as along as has an opener he can bat on and on and on ...

[Aussie In England]

Delusional people on here if you're comparing a filthy slogger like Alex Hales to proven world class openers in Matthew Hayden, Virender Sehwag and David Warner. The latter three all got selected after having FC averages over 50. Whereas Hales averages mid 30s.

[FattusCattus]

Yup - but the English will always go back to the fact that Tresco and Vaughan were averaging bugger all when they were plucked from the county scene, and they both went on to have pretty fine careers at Test level.

For me, it's the mettle of the man, not just his stats. Ramps, Hick, Lathwell, Adams, Crawley all had superb statistics and couldn't make the grade.

[shamelessshaun]

Aus win the toss and shall bat! s**t!

[Aussie In England]

Little bit of cloud cover in Birmingham, could be a good toss to lose for England...

[joeljonno]

Covers coming on

A good morning session with the ball needed.


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