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Renshaw was unavailable.... 

he's more English !!!   

[six and out]

he's more English !!!   

precisely my point!

[ppccopener]

precisely my point!

love it !!! 

[Rob580]

Dawson? I just don't get it at all I'm afraid.

I'm all for picking on character, but surely you have to be a good enough standard of player to warrant a place in the squad first? He's not even the best spinner at Hampshire, and surely if you're picking 3 spinners (One who genuinely classifies as an allrounder, and one who can certainly hold a bat) then your third spinner you can afford to pick purely on spin bowling merit, not having to take into account his batting, fielding, his banter, if he's a good bloke, what school he went to, whether he mixes the drinks just right....

[Felix Tito]

Dawson is a shocking selection. Ansari was exposed as nothing more than bits and pieces. Now we call up an even more bits and pieces replacement. Dawson's bowling is nothing more than average.

[ppccopener]

Would Samit Patel in hindsight(wonderful for us amateur selectors on forums) have been a idea.

seriously.....

 

[six and out]

Jack Leach should have gone IMHO

[smilley792]

We didn't need another spinner.

We have Rashid and Ali. More than enough(not saying there good enough though) batty as back up. We need no more.


They should have callled up two batsmen.

[six and out]

We didn't need another spinner.

We have Rashid and Ali. More than enough(not saying there good enough though) batty as back up. We need no more.


They should have callled up two batsmen.

thats the exact reason Leach should have gone in the 1st place (give the youngster the experience of touring the sub-continent) and that they should have taken an extra batsman on the tour

[Bats_Entertainment]

Jack Leach should have gone IMHO

I like an opinion expressed humbly.

[procricket]

Jennings in my view should have gone originally instead of Duckett.

Jennings was pretty much the stand out in the top division last year in a poor Durham side.

Very good player who score runs all season against everybody.

Good player this lad maybe not English but hey he picked and I wish him well as he playing for his/my country.

[Bats_Entertainment]

Woakes is likely to be fit for the next Test, and I fully expect him to play. Going forward I'd love us to be regularly fielding 4 seamers and 2 spinners.  If two of these are genuine all-rounders, worth their places for their batting, then why not have six bowlers? You don't 'need' them? Rubbish! That's like saying the lower order don't need to be able to bat because the top order should do their job.

[Tailendfielder]

now England can't win the series
Bringing the lions  into the team is a tremendous  opportunity for them or Billings to show what they can do  Bell is a backward step and there's little point  in this series exposing Duckett to The bowling of Ashwin.

Not really bothered who, Duckett/Hales/Lyth. My only thought is, Jennings scores a hundred. Does well, you've either then got to drop Hameed or drop the guy who just scored a hundred. Which is why I suggested a stop gap.

The flip side of that, Jennings has got a really tough job. Go to India, best team in the world at present, mid way through a series 2 - 0 down. If he fails, you've knocked his confidence. If you wanna blood a young lad I would prefer to do it against a weaker test side in England.

Either way is irrelevant now, hope he does well.

[Bats_Entertainment]

Don't pick Jennings in case he scores a hundred? 

[Tailendfielder]

Don't pick Jennings in case he scores a hundred? 

That is not what I said. I said I hope he does well. I think its a tough debut