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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #225 on: August 25, 2015, 10:44:00 AM »

I look forward to your posts, whatever you predict the opposite normally happens so i'm off down the bookies to put a monkey on England to win the series

it's all a bit Glenn Mcgrath 5-0  :)
England haven't won a series away from home since 2012, feel free to waste your money however you see fit.
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #226 on: August 25, 2015, 10:45:34 AM »

I will give you Rashid and Ali at a push, but Stokes is far from a buffet bowler.
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #227 on: August 25, 2015, 10:48:56 AM »

I will give you Rashid and Ali at a push, but Stokes is far from a buffet bowler.

Stokes is turning into a great cricketer in my opinion, him Root and Buttler are the types of lads you can build a long term team around.
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #228 on: August 25, 2015, 10:49:52 AM »

I will give you Rashid and Ali at a push, but Stokes is far from a buffet bowler.
Bowling average of 40+ And getting smashed around at 4/5 runs per over. That Buzz is Stokes the buffet bowler.
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #229 on: August 25, 2015, 10:52:52 AM »

you might want to watch him bowling at trent bridge again then.

Also, he has had more catches dropped of his bowling this summer than all the other bowlers combined.

Or perhaps this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBN1Qb851yo

he is a better bowler now than then too.
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #230 on: August 25, 2015, 10:53:49 AM »

England haven't won a series away from home since 2012, feel free to waste your money however you see fit.
if I really wanted to waste £500 i'd take odds on Australia winning an Ashes series in England

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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #231 on: August 25, 2015, 10:54:58 AM »

Bits and pieces players like Ali, Stokes and Rashid will get exposed in the Middle East. Pakistan might not have Ajmal or Rehman anymore, but England can't play spin for toffee. So Pakistan will pick 2/3 decent spinners and skittle England every time. Ali and Rashid will be buffet bowling for batsmen like Younus and Misbah.

Not sure how many people will agree with me, but I'm not putting Ben Stokes in the bits and pieces category - he has test class performances with both bat and ball under his belt already, and is only getting better.
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #232 on: August 25, 2015, 10:55:32 AM »

you might want to watch him bowling at trent bridge again then.

Also, he has had more catches dropped of his bowling this summer than all the other bowlers combined.

Or perhaps this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBN1Qb851yo

he is a better bowler now than then too.
Stokes luckily flukes a 6fer on a doctored pitch? He's a buffet 9 times outta 10.
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #233 on: August 25, 2015, 10:55:52 AM »

Bowling average of 40+ And getting smashed around at 4/5 runs per over. That Buzz is Stokes the buffet bowler.

I would still take Stokes over Marsh/Watson/whatever other current Australian all rounders you've got to offer every single day of the week..... and twice on Sundays!

He took 6fer at Sydney as well, doctored green top though I would imagine.
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #234 on: August 25, 2015, 10:57:07 AM »

Not sure how many people will agree with me, but I'm not putting Ben Stokes in the bits and pieces category - he has test class performances with both bat and ball under his belt already, and is only getting better.
Stokes is a wild slugger with the bat, hence why his average is a mediocre 31. His bowling turns up once in a blue moon and hence he averages 40.
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #235 on: August 25, 2015, 10:57:54 AM »

I agree with you Johnny.

has this forum been infected with some sort of strange mind bending drugs?

Stokes AT lords this year against NZ? bits and pces? i'm off to the docs to get a check up
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #237 on: August 25, 2015, 11:02:32 AM »

I would still take Stokes over Marsh/Watson/whatever other current Australian all rounders you've got to offer every single day of the week..... and twice on Sundays!

He took 6fer at Sydney as well, doctored green top though I would imagine.
6/99 at Sydney going at over 5 run per over? Yeah the buffet bowler's luck was in that day.
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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #238 on: August 25, 2015, 11:14:00 AM »

we are all clubbing together for your air fare back to Australia, I've been there I known it's better than the UK

the weather is better,the women can carry you home when you've had one too many, the beaches are nice and you got koalas and kangaroos.

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Re: 5th Ashes Test at the Oval
« Reply #239 on: August 25, 2015, 11:15:07 AM »

we are all clubbing together for your air fare back to Australia, I've been there I known it's better than the UK

the weather is better,the women can carry you home when you've had one too many, the beaches are nice and you got koalas and kangaroos.

 :)

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