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SOULMAN1012

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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #450 on: January 03, 2020, 10:25:19 AM »
Quote from: Mister Le Chiffre on January 03, 2020, 10:18:59 AM
On what planet has Zak Crawley been identified as Test batsman? He barely averages 30 in red ball cricket

On the fact he is only 21 and scored almost a 1000 FC runs last season in Div 1 cricket and he is a proper red ball opening bat and we are not blessed with a lot of top of the order players.
As an opener you get more balls with your name on them than anywhere else in the order, hopefully he gets the rest of this series and then maybe we will have a better idea after 4 tests as opposed to 2 innings which he has had so far
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #451 on: January 03, 2020, 10:26:34 AM »
Why is it every time we are in a good ish position starting to get in top do we lose a wicket!
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #452 on: January 03, 2020, 10:31:26 AM »
Quote from: SOULMAN1012 on January 03, 2020, 10:25:19 AM
On the fact he is only 21 and scored almost a 1000 FC runs last season in Div 1 cricket and he is a proper red ball opening bat and we are not blessed with a lot of top of the order players.
As an opener you get more balls with your name on them than anywhere else in the order, hopefully he gets the rest of this series and then maybe we will have a better idea after 4 tests as opposed to 2 innings which he has had so far
800 runs at 34 irrelevant of his age, those are modest figures
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #453 on: January 03, 2020, 10:34:55 AM »
Quote from: Mister Le Chiffre on January 03, 2020, 10:31:26 AM
800 runs at 34 irrelevant of his age, those are modest figures

Who would you have in instead?
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #454 on: January 03, 2020, 10:36:06 AM »
Quote from: Duck Duck Mongoose on January 03, 2020, 10:22:43 AM
Why did you have to....!?

Yes sorry absolute village from me, i should know better  :)
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #455 on: January 03, 2020, 10:43:15 AM »
Quote from: Duck Duck Mongoose on January 03, 2020, 10:34:55 AM
Who would you have in instead?
Always had a soft spot for Bell-Drummond - his 2019 stats where similar to Crawley’s
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #456 on: January 03, 2020, 10:55:34 AM »
Quote from: Mister Le Chiffre on January 03, 2020, 10:43:15 AM
Always had a soft spot for Bell-Drummond - his 2019 stats where similar to Crawley’s

He did do well last season, but he batted mainly at 4 last season, due to a prior of a lack of form at the top and the emergence of Crawley.
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #457 on: January 03, 2020, 11:40:11 AM »
Zak Crawley is not the answer.
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #458 on: January 03, 2020, 11:50:13 AM »
English cricket fandom is hitting new lows when a new opener gets written off after one innings. Bring back Ian Bell!
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #459 on: January 03, 2020, 11:55:08 AM »
KP is in south africa bring him back to open!
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #460 on: January 03, 2020, 12:01:58 PM »
Quote from: edge on January 03, 2020, 11:50:13 AM
English cricket fandom is hitting new lows when a new opener gets written off after one innings. Bring back Ian Bell!

No, I said Crawley was not the answer before he was picked. I was merely repeating. i hoped someone might see the funny side.
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #461 on: January 03, 2020, 12:04:59 PM »
Whatever happened to looking at the ball? Poor from Root
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #462 on: January 03, 2020, 12:20:40 PM »
genuine fast bowling unsettles Root, we've seen it too many times. Windies,South Africa, Australia.

this is the last tour I want to see Root as skipper, it has to be taken off him. He's still our best...but he cannot do both jobs. there's no massive come down, it happens in sport, not all players elevated to skippering see their own contributions go higher.
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #463 on: January 03, 2020, 12:21:12 PM »
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Re: England Tour of South Africa, Test ODI and T20
« Reply #464 on: January 03, 2020, 12:29:23 PM »
In terms of top order options, would it not have made more sense to take someone more experienced like Northeast as the backup 3 and have Denly as the backup opener? He might as well have opened today and I'm not sure it does Crawley much good to be playing against a top quality SA attack just now given his inexperience.
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