Topic: England Test Series vs Pakistan (Read 60421 times)

alexhilly1492 · « **Reply #75 on:** May 15, 2018, 02:14:46 PM »

interesting to see who bats at 3 looking at who theyve picked its got to be bairstow surely?

cook
stoneman
bairstow
root
malan
stokes
buttler
woakes
wood/bess
broad
anderson

will we pick a spinner? will stoneman miss out?

cook
bairstow
root
malan
stokes
buttler
woakes
bess
wood
broad
anderson

it looks weak if stoneman doesnt play tbh it doesnt look great if he does play

oh well, its what we've got time to get behind the boys!

petehosk · « **Reply #76 on:** May 15, 2018, 02:17:52 PM »

Malan will bat at 3 and Bess will carry drinks until there is a spinning wicket available to bowl on.
Root will stay at 4 because he wants to and Bairstow go to 5.

richthekeeper · « **Reply #77 on:** May 15, 2018, 02:24:31 PM »

Urgh.

KD4 · « **Reply #78 on:** May 15, 2018, 02:30:05 PM »

Quote from: alexhilly1492 on May 15, 2018, 02:14:46 PM

interesting to see who bats at 3 looking at who theyve picked its got to be bairstow surely?

cook
stoneman
bairstow
root
malan
stokes
buttler
woakes
wood/bess
broad
anderson

will we pick a spinner? will stoneman miss out?

cook
bairstow
root
malan
stokes
buttler
woakes
bess
wood
broad
anderson

it looks weak if stoneman doesnt play tbh it doesnt look great if he does play

oh well, its what we've got time to get behind the boys!

I reckon Bess will miss out. They'll use Malan and Root as the spinning options with Buttler probably batting at 7. Malan will bat at 3.

billyb · « **Reply #79 on:** May 15, 2018, 02:33:43 PM »

What's the point, honestly.
Baffling and incompetent.

edge · « **Reply #80 on:** May 15, 2018, 02:40:34 PM »

Going in with no spinner when Moeen couldn't bowl worked well for us in the winter didn't it, are you mad.

Don't really see the problem with this squad? Would people rather have seen Vince get yet another go, or Moeen play instead of a really promising young spinner?

Livingstone would probably have got the shout ahead of Buttler but hasn't got any, and Clarke and Sam Curran may be good prospects but given they're still in short trousers I can understand not picking them yet. Unfortunately none of the potential new proper quick options has played very much cricket this year either, what are you gonna do?

Woakes or Wood will miss out, any other selection from that squad wouldn't make much sense...

mattdawson · « **Reply #81 on:** May 15, 2018, 03:04:57 PM »

Quote from: edge on May 15, 2018, 02:40:34 PM

Going in with no spinner when Moeen couldn't bowl worked well for us in the winter didn't it, are you mad.

Don't really see the problem with this squad? Would people rather have seen Vince get yet another go, or Moeen play instead of a really promising young spinner?

Livingstone would probably have got the shout ahead of Buttler but hasn't got any, and Clarke and Sam Curran may be good prospects but given they're still in short trousers I can understand not picking them yet. Unfortunately none of the potential new proper quick options has played very much cricket this year either, what are you gonna do?

Woakes or Wood will miss out, any other selection from that squad wouldn't make much sense...

Agree with that part from I think Vince & Buttler are both very good prospects that should have grasped test cricket but haven't really.

Bess has to play for me, 5 seamers is too much, Root would be changing every 8 overs if there wasn't a wicket.

billyb · « **Reply #82 on:** May 15, 2018, 03:27:41 PM »

Look, they've told these cricketers to go back into county cricket and perform. They have- and they haven't picked them. Shifting the goalposts yet again. Buttler hasn't even played county cricket this season.
Nothing for Vince after a double-ton, nothing for Gubbins, Clarke, Pope or Foakes.

Bess has also taken 1 wicket this year, whilst Virdi has 17.

Seriously, is there are ANY part of ECB administration that isn't an absolute farce?

ProCricketer1982 · « **Reply #83 on:** May 15, 2018, 03:28:45 PM »

Hahaha

Clueless yet again. England will easily win at home so we can read nothing into the summer performances anyway. Shame.. ECB miss yet another chance to change things.

A lot of county red ball players will be thinking �what�s the point�.. might as well go play hit and giggle

petehosk · « **Reply #84 on:** May 15, 2018, 03:32:29 PM »

I was hoping to see Foakes behind the stumps and move Bairstow up to batting!
Foakes is a true World class keeper!!

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #85 on:** May 15, 2018, 03:32:38 PM »

Not impressed. Totally the wrong message being sent to county cricketers.

Would I rather Vince given another go than Buttler? Yes, absoltely, 100%.

I'm sure Bess is a talent, but it's frightening to think that we haven't got anything else.

Mister Le Chiffre · « **Reply #86 on:** May 15, 2018, 03:32:51 PM »

If I'm not mistaken Moeen averages nearly 50 against Pakistan with the ball ergo he's not a viable selection even if you disregard his pitiful performances over the winter

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #87 on:** May 15, 2018, 03:34:38 PM »

Quote from: petehosk on May 15, 2018, 03:32:29 PM

I was hoping to see Foakes behind the stumps and move Bairstow up to batting!
Foakes is a true World class keeper!!

Seems they are going to move Bairstow up the batting order anyway. But I'd have preferred the Foakes option.

six and out · « **Reply #88 on:** May 15, 2018, 03:43:38 PM »

This squad really is a shot in the arm to the CC and the county pro's.

I know Butler is a bit of a freak but to pick him when he hasn't played any red ball cricket (he averaged 17 for Lancs in 4 CC games in 2017) is really putting out a bad message.

I am certainly no advocate of Vince and don't think he is a Test match no.3 at all but they asked him to get CC runs, he got 200 of them and he didn't didn't get picked.

Stoneman on the other hand hasn't scored 30 and keeps his place.

There is no logic to this at all.

1 things for sure Rajastan are going to be pissed - losing Butler for the end of the IPL they wouldn't have thought that would happen

19reading87 · « **Reply #89 on:** May 15, 2018, 03:46:38 PM »

Quote from: petehosk on May 15, 2018, 02:17:52 PM

Malan will bat at 3 and Bess will carry drinks until there is a spinning wicket available to bowl on.
Root will stay at 4 because he wants to and Bairstow go to 5.

Bess will play, England won't go into a test without a front line spinner

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