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[csnew]

 Forgotten about the short ball? Not seen a single one

[edge]

Averages 42 at 6 as well tbf all the numbers point against him batting at 5

Bloke's really bloody good at 7, and scores tons there. Not very easy to find those! Batsmen who can average in the 20s at 5, on the other hand, we have plenty of those.

[FattusCattus]

Anyone watching it - did Broad bowl poocakes?

[rickjames]

Sammy you beauty!

[ppccopener]

Bloke's really bloody good at 7, and scores tons there. Not very easy to find those! Batsmen who can average in the 20s at 5, on the other hand, we have plenty of those.

are you saying Dr Edge we play one keeper batsman at 7-bairstow and Butler plays as a specialist higher up(are you sure?) or not at all and they pick someone else.

Butler is playing as a specialist batsman(top 5) if that's where you coming from.......

[smilley792]

Curran steaming through these.

Thought he was fodder.......

[rickjames]

Sam 'average' Curran, you beauty!

[northernboy1987]

SAM CURRAN

[jjelricksmith]

Who exactly is world class in our team? Root is a decent bat and would get into most England lineups but he isn't good enough to carry the load by himself. Bairstow is a decent counter-attacking keeper-batsman in the Prior/Stewart mold but is batting a place too high. Who else? Cook was past it about 5 years ago and now scores less than 20 more often than not.  All the other batsmen are county standard at best who wouldn't have got a sniff of the England team 20 years ago. Most of our promising young batsmen are being coached into T20 hitters. There are no more Strauss's or Trotts coming through because no-one bats like that anymore, with solid defences and only a handful of attacking shots.

Anderson (especially) and Broad (to a lesser extent) are in the tail-end of long and distinguished careers but as a pair don't actually have stats much better than say, Gough and Caddick. Stokes is massively over-rated and is a complete psycho so can't be much fun to share a dressing room with. The other seamers are all either slow, inaccurate or injury-prone. For a variety of reasons, mainly down to the way we penalise county pitches that turn with fines and points deductions, England produce a decent spinner roughly once every 30 years.

Yet again SLA watching a completely different game to the rest of us

[jjelricksmith]

Anyone watching it - did Broad bowl poocakes?

Also need to know

[mo_town]

Typical India...always struggle against the newbies. Wonder if it is because they don't do much research into them..

[Kulli]

Typical India...always struggle against the newbies. Wonder if it is because they don't do much research into them..

Can't be a shortage of video footage of SCurran bowling, he's been about a while now.

[Kulli]

Decent first over from Rashid...

[SLA]

Yet again SLA watching a completely different game to the rest of us

Meh. Whatever. If you don't see the many and profound weaknesses in this England team, then you're either in a state of patriotic denial or you simply don't know much about cricket, full stop.

[jjelricksmith]

Can't be a shortage of video footage of SCurran bowling, he's been about a while now.

Not like its a particularly different action either.....