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[Seniorplayer]

Just watched the highlights. Woakes chipping in with third highest score...

Not bad for number 9.

He played some good shots but the bowlers  looked tired  and bowled short.

[ppccopener]

King Ravi, the ODI legend!
Didn't he thrash runs against the West Indies before getting dropped during an Ashes series before? (That lead to Jonathan Trott's selection, if I recall correctly)

Give him a go and see if history repeats itself, his successor could be he long term solution again...

I think your memory despite destroying brain cells at univ is very accurate. Bops got 3 or 4 low scores and made way for Trott who got a hundred at the Oval on debut.

But Ravi is not going to get recalled realistically  history won't get that chance again!

I could be wrong and I havnt destroyed brain cells at university as I'm not clever enough by a long shot to go in the first place Bops got 3 consecutive hundreds(could be wrong) I think(!)

According to a mate of a mate who played with his brother  Ravi feels he never got a fair chance.

[WalkingWicket37]

I could be wrong and I havnt destroyed brain cells at university as I'm not clever enough by a long shot to go in the first place Bops got 3 consecutive hundreds(could be wrong) I think(!)

If going to university is a measure of intelligence I must be really thick, seeing as I'm a college drop out! 

I think you're correct, didn't he get dropped after his maiden hundred in the Windies, then get 2 consecutive ones on his recall (so 3 consecutive hundreds and a few games without being selected in the middle!)

[Biggie Smalls]

I think Notorious B.I.G. @Biggie Smalls the other day posted for the batting Stoneman/Malan/westley-anyone but Ballance

But if it was one out of those 3 not including ballance at all which one will England go forward with does the forum think?

Or maybe two out of the three names to make it easier...

I'm not sure myself !  Stoneman I would say looks better , short and outside off and quick against the Aussies it appears Westley might struggle playing as he is now.

think i said stoneman/westley/some guy from the pub/anyone in oz with a uk passport /not ballance....
i know westley and stoneman have looked iffy or unconvincing at times , and malan got that 60 odd... but to me malan looks the least likely test bat of the three .

[Biggie Smalls]

where is my favourite english supporter ?.... ive not seen the Cookie Monster yet this english summer . Did i miss him , or is he on holiday with Minnie Mouse ?

yaaaay ! cookie monster and minnie mouse are back at the cricket today ! they must have read my forum post and got motivated .
i hope bumble has a chat with them at some stage .

[Big Mac]

[Bats_Entertainment]

Any of the 'what does he have to do?' brigade dropped Stoneman yet?

I was standing next to Nick Knight on the boundary before the start of play last night. KP and Ian Bell were standing close by, chatting. "We could perhaps do with those two at Leeds,"  I joked to Nick Knight, though not seriously believing it.

Nick Knight made a silly Nick Knight noise. 

[Biggie Smalls]

whoaa buddy !

good luck wearing that at perth during 40c heat !

he makes my day , love it when his eyes go all wonky and all over the place .

[Bats_Entertainment]

Which one are we looking at? What about the one in cap giving it the 'I love fellatio' gesture?

[Biggie Smalls]

Which one are we looking at? What about the one in cap giving it the 'I love fellatio' gesture?

haha.
please refer to my earlier cookie monster posts (ie no fellatio).
t.b.h i hadn't noticed that until reading this... good spot , its even funnier when on a loop like that .

[Biggie Smalls]

hey , is mr fellatio wearing a Trump wig and 'make america great again' hat , while sitting surrounded by blokes dressed as Mexicans ? Where's his wall ?

[Bats_Entertainment]

hey , is mr fellatio wearing a Trump wig and 'make america great again' hat , while sitting surrounded by blokes dressed as Mexicans ? Where's his wall ?

Oh yeah, I hadn't noticed that!

[rickjames]

JIMMY

[LEACHY48]

Good God moeen...

[csnew]

Just a thought is it worth stokes getting another demerit point and sacrificing the last test match as apposed to picking up points in the ashes and getting banned during that series. No chance of strokes keeping his cool for all 5 tests in the winter