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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #30 on: August 20, 2022, 05:36:59 AM »

I think Keet’s has to replace Crawley, pope has enough credit in the bag but needs to show some steel at times.
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #31 on: August 20, 2022, 07:11:32 AM »

Jennings has had a fair whack at test cricket and was pretty average.  People taking about Bell- Drummond- slim pickings indeed.
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« Reply #32 on: August 20, 2022, 07:23:29 AM »

Jennings is probably a better player now that he was when he played for England. And he scored a 300 recently.
With a tour of Pakistan up next, and his ability against spin, he’d be a no brainer to replace Crawley.
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #33 on: August 20, 2022, 09:36:34 AM »

Wouldn't mind seeing Duckett given a crack at 3 but obviously they back Pope there for now.
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #34 on: August 20, 2022, 10:40:12 AM »

Whoever they pick is likely to struggle while they play so little.
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #35 on: August 20, 2022, 12:21:02 PM »

Whoever they pick is likely to struggle while they play so little.
The bar isn’t exactly very high. Crawley is averaging 16 in the 5 Tests this English summer. And he’s only lasting on average 29 balls.
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #36 on: August 20, 2022, 12:33:05 PM »

It's been like this for a few years now?
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #37 on: August 20, 2022, 07:27:45 PM »

Whoever they pick is likely to struggle while they play so little.

Cook in his column has basically said it’s brainless not playing any FC cricket before an important series and in the best part of the summer.

I’m afraid whether we like it or not they cannot cram in any more formats so the oldest format has to give. The money piled into the hundred is so much it’s a project that cannot fail.

Personally I think it’s a load of (No Swearing Please).

But lump it we will have to I think.

As far as picking another opener goes, it would be someone tried before, someone with early season form or someone doing well in the short format.

The selectors who often get panned on this forum really do have a job to pick batsmen.

How many have we tried since Cook/Strauss? I’ve lost count.
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #38 on: August 21, 2022, 04:20:26 AM »

Some of the stuff in this article from McCullum is just simply crazy.

Zak Crawley: Brendon McCullum says opener can win matches for England - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/62609719
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #39 on: August 21, 2022, 10:25:32 AM »

Highly entertaining thread this one  ;) My boys doing me proud  :D
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #40 on: August 21, 2022, 04:26:17 PM »

It's simple really. Professional cricketers should play one four-day match and one limited-overs match per week for the duration of the cricket season. All players should be available for their counties unless they have been picked by England.

Greed has created this mess. The administrators need to show the game some respect.
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #41 on: August 21, 2022, 06:12:43 PM »

The world is run by money…
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #42 on: August 22, 2022, 09:51:05 AM »

It's simple really. Professional cricketers should play one four-day match and one limited-overs match per week for the duration of the cricket season. All players should be available for their counties unless they have been picked by England.

Greed has created this mess. The administrators need to show the game some respect.

That sounds like the old school days of playing a County Championship game around a Sunday League match in the middle of it!

Simon Hughes tells a great story of when playing for Middlesex vs Lancashire in a CC game at Lords the Sunday League fixture was at Old Trafford so they had to trek up to Manchester just for the Sunday and then come back to London to finish the CC game where they only needed 10 runs or so to win!

I suppose that would be one way of getting more red ball cricket in.
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #43 on: August 22, 2022, 12:16:35 PM »

That sounds like the old school days of playing a County Championship game around a Sunday League match in the middle of it!

Simon Hughes tells a great story of when playing for Middlesex vs Lancashire in a CC game at Lords the Sunday League fixture was at Old Trafford so they had to trek up to Manchester just for the Sunday and then come back to London to finish the CC game where they only needed 10 runs or so to win!

I suppose that would be one way of getting more red ball cricket in.

It's nothing like it, other than the championship is contested over the whole season (like it ought to be). There would be 2 rest/practice/travel days every week and gaps between fixtures. In the 80s there were none!

It's not that long ago that we had relative sanity.
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Re: Eng vs SA test series 2022
« Reply #44 on: August 22, 2022, 12:29:18 PM »

Blocks of alike formats make complete sense in terms of continuity of competitions and quality of cricket - the problem here is that the schedule is so poorly thought out that this year the domestic season has always been playing something different from the international game. Shouldn't be rocket science that the domestic and international schedules should align their red/white ball cricket.
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