England V India cricket
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Gargamel said:
Jimmy is bowling beautifully, for little reward.
Q. Is Stokes a busted flush ?
I think Stokes and Buttler should have a long think about their batting in test matches.
Great play from Curran, Stood up well to some sledging from Kohli.
I wonder if Stokes' court case is playing with his head.Q. Is Stokes a busted flush ?
I think Stokes and Buttler should have a long think about their batting in test matches.
Great play from Curran, Stood up well to some sledging from Kohli.
Curran was great today.
Great test match.
TorqueDirty said:
Nice to see Cook making another fine contribution with the bat across both innings.
Seriously, why on earth is he still in the team. A rolling succession of failures punctuated by the odd huge score is not what England need from an opening batsman.
TD
Possibly because there are no other viable options to replace him?Seriously, why on earth is he still in the team. A rolling succession of failures punctuated by the odd huge score is not what England need from an opening batsman.
TD
Smollet said:
TorqueDirty said:
Nice to see Cook making another fine contribution with the bat across both innings.
Seriously, why on earth is he still in the team. A rolling succession of failures punctuated by the odd huge score is not what England need from an opening batsman.
TD
Possibly because there are no other viable options to replace him?Seriously, why on earth is he still in the team. A rolling succession of failures punctuated by the odd huge score is not what England need from an opening batsman.
TD
PS Sam Curran has "test player" written all over him. Let's hope the coaches don't erase his boyish enthusiasm.
Smollet said:
TorqueDirty said:
Nice to see Cook making another fine contribution with the bat across both innings.
Seriously, why on earth is he still in the team. A rolling succession of failures punctuated by the odd huge score is not what England need from an opening batsman.
TD
Possibly because there are no other viable options to replace him?Seriously, why on earth is he still in the team. A rolling succession of failures punctuated by the odd huge score is not what England need from an opening batsman.
TD
iwantagta said:
Smollet said:
TorqueDirty said:
Nice to see Cook making another fine contribution with the bat across both innings.
Seriously, why on earth is he still in the team. A rolling succession of failures punctuated by the odd huge score is not what England need from an opening batsman.
TD
Possibly because there are no other viable options to replace him?Seriously, why on earth is he still in the team. A rolling succession of failures punctuated by the odd huge score is not what England need from an opening batsman.
TD
You could argue that if Cook is going to keep getting out for less than 20 then there really is little risk in putting in a wildcard to see how he gets on. What's the worst that can happen? He gets 13 and 0 each time. We are no worse off than we are now and the wildcard gets some experience and confidence - if he can make a half decent score every now and then.
Who that replacement should be is another matter but we are almost at the stage where it does not matter that much frankly.
Maybe I'm being too hard on the guy but if you look at Cook's performance over the last few years it does not make comfortable reading, particularly if you look at consistency rather than average - since his average is held up by a very few monster scores interspersed between otherwise consistently poor results.
TD
nicanary said:
Exactly. I'm starting to lose count of the number of new faces they've tried and discarded. We simply have nobody in county cricket who's good enough at test level - the present side has Root, the "past his sell by date" Cook, and a mishmash of white-ball players who sometimes give the impression they don't know what test cricket as all about.
PS Sam Curran has "test player" written all over him. Let's hope the coaches don't erase his boyish enthusiasm.
I think you are doing Bairstow a huge injustice there. He is a proper batsman. Ideal number four. Why Malan get four is a mystery. PS Sam Curran has "test player" written all over him. Let's hope the coaches don't erase his boyish enthusiasm.
Along with why isn’t Root fielding second slip...
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