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[six and out]

Get Moeen up to open and let him go out and hit 6s 😂 it won't be very effective but it'll make the 4am wake up much more worthwhile!

D/N so not 4am!! I believe its more like 8.45am!!

[alexhilly1492]

Get Moeen up to open and let him go out and hit 6s 😂 it won't be very effective but it'll make the 4am wake up much more worthwhile!

He's flying home...

Can't see him coming back again, he won't play in the home summer and in aus... Is this the end in test cricket?

[six and out]

He's flying home...

Can't see him coming back again, he won't play in the home summer and in aus... Is this the end in test cricket?

https://twitter.com/ESPNcricinfo/status/1361593829392936963?s=19

17 man squad shows they are leaving all bases open though.

[ppccopener]

He's flying home...

Can't see him coming back again, he won't play in the home summer and in aus... Is this the end in test cricket?

He's not back for the last test which is not a day night match?

[Jimbo]

D/N so not 4am!! I believe its more like 8.45am!!

Finally can have something resembling a proper sleep schedule again 

[jonny77]

We'll always be up against it in these conditions, let's face it. It's not just our batting, but we don't have a world class spinner in our ranks. Stating the obvious but neither Bess, Leach or Ali are on the same ballpark as Ashwin. We just very rarely produce very good spinners. Just look back in previous years and its always been the case really.

[alba caerulea]

I think that could be that for Mo. He wont be in the side at home with only one spinner needed and doubt he ever wants to set foot in Aus again even if selected

Some World class performances with bat and ball over the years without ever really belonging to the very highest level of all-rounders. Thanks for the good times 👏🏼

Hopefully he'll continue in white ball where he is more valuable

[jamielsn15]

Got to feel for Mo. There was already a higher instance of mental health issues in cricket prior to the pandemic than in other sports. Can't imagine how it feels to have to bubble in a hotel, mostly in your room, for weeks on end.

Add in his isolation in SL, a young family and his previous mental wellbeing. Your job isn't worth your health, whatever it is. I hope we see him again in Test cricket but agree that it may be a tough road back.

Huge credit for getting Test series played during the pandemic, but its proving to be at a high price

[ppccopener]

Got to feel for Mo. There was already a higher instance of mental health issues in cricket prior to the pandemic than in other sports. Can't imagine how it feels to have to bubble in a hotel, mostly in your room, for weeks on end.

Add in his isolation in SL, a young family and his previous mental wellbeing. Your job isn't worth your health, whatever it is. I hope we see him again in Test cricket but agree that it may be a tough road back.

Huge credit for getting Test series played during the pandemic, but its proving to be at a high price

Yes Morgan said during our last summer the bubbles are not sustainable, and since then a few have chosen to take a break from it.

Mo didn't play in SL and that must of been tough, if your playing it may not be so bad.
Chris Woakes I think also didn't play in SL are may or may not play in the day night.if he doesn't he may have two tours not playing a game.

[rickjames]

Also we're going to play 3 seamers and Leach, no? For me, Stokes not bowling anywhere near enough to lift some of the burden

[ppccopener]

For the next match if it helps seam maybe one spinner.
The seamers Broad and Anderson I would go Stone again myself and there's Woakes. I wonder if we might gamble an go with an extra bowler and hope we get the best of the conditions.

[Bats_Entertainment]

We'll always be up against it in these conditions, let's face it. It's not just our batting, but we don't have a world class spinner in our ranks. Stating the obvious but neither Bess, Leach or Ali are on the same ballpark as Ashwin. We just very rarely produce very good spinners. Just look back in previous years and its always been the case really.

English spin bowling has never been as bad as it is now. Moeen Ali is a batsman who fell into the role of off-sponner because there wasn't anyone else. Every county would have probably have had two spinners better than Bess or Ali in the 1980s. It wasn't chance; it was the fact that they bowled a lot of overs and were valued.

[Bats_Entertainment]

* They were all finger-spinners, mind you.  Wrist-spin was almost non-existent.

[Jeff Navarro]

I highly doubt Ahmedabad will be a seamers paradise. The D/N factor might just end up being a novelty factor in India

[Jeff Navarro]

* They were all finger-spinners, mind you.  Wrist-spin was almost non-existent.

Wrist spin gets murdered in India