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  1. Big Game Tonight

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    10 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

    Danny Drinkwater should be locked up. Theft of a living.

    He looks like he’s managed to lose both weight and height since his premier league days while also doing a very good impression of someone learning to play football on the job while blindfolded and / or drunk 

  3. International Cricket

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    8 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

    Would expect this team for the first test.  Question marks over who bats at 3.  Either Bairstow or Root.  Maybe Mahmood over Woakes. 

    1. Crawley

    2. Lees

    3. Bairstow

    4. Root

    5. Stokes

    6. Pope

    7. Foakes

    8. Woakes

    9. Robinson

    10. Wood

    11. Leach

     

    Root is batting at 3 which I think is the right call and yea I’d go for Mahmood over Woakes 

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  6. International Cricket

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    2 minutes ago, Super said:

    Is it just a case of saving them for the summer tests at home? 

    Yeah I considered that but I’m sure I heard an interview on TMS following the Ashes debacle  someone say England would now take each series as it comes and focus on one at a time rather than looking too far in the future. 

    In which case if fit surely Broad and Anderson feature and we assess them again during the English summer.

    I might be wrong though, may have been an opinion from Aggers or someone. Anderson has certainly been on record saying he wants to go to the WI. 

  9. International Cricket

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    2 hours ago, tin said:

    I’d be surprised if Langer’s up for it. He’s a fiercely patriotic Aussie. Dicky Dawson and Colly are also in the frame.

    He is but probably pissed off with how he’s been treated by Aus and he’s spent plenty of time playing in England for Middlesex and Somerset so might not be as unlikely as it seems. 
     

    we need someone with pedigree regardless of Nationality, I really hope the likes of Dawson and Colly are not considered; just more of the same. 

  10. International Cricket

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    Langer has resigned; we should go and get him immediately (if he wants it).

    It’s been far too cosy in the England set up for a few years now. He’s a proven winner both as a player and coach and I think the ideal candidate to improve England - especially the batting. 

  11. Massengo

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    9 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

     

    Only by the terminally stupid.

    He's had some poor games in the past, but his innate talent was obvious from day one.  Under Pearson and Fleming this season, he's really started to look a star in the making. 

    Bizarre that some people only measure success and ability in terms of goals / assists - so much more to his game than that 

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  13. Terrible Refs

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    11 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

    "You're not fit to referee" from the Stokites :)

    A Gas supporting made told me they have Keith Stroud in charge tomorrow. Good times.

    Stroud surely the winner of worst referee in the football league! Seems to have been around for donkeys years. Him and Gavin Ward the worst I’ve ever seen consistently 

  14. International Cricket

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    7 minutes ago, tin said:

    How the hell does Dawson get in ahead of Livingstone? One struggles to get in the Hampshire side, the other belts the ball for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL. 

    Livingstone is ill apparently, should be in the team every game otherwise 

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  18. International Cricket

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    Focus needs to return to Test cricket for the ECB and it needs to be the ongoing priority.

    The review and changes to our one day cricket were needed after the 2015 World Cup but our T20 / ODI team is now one of the best in the world and will continue to be. As new, young players come through they will be used to this aggressive, expansive form of cricket and I see no reason why we won’t continue to thrive. In short, if it’s not broke don’t fix it. 

    Test cricket as the name suggests is a mental and physical test over 5 days, often in unfamiliar conditions and can include being away from home for months at a time.  We need to do all we can to prepare players for this rather than chuck them in at India or Australia and hope for the best. 
     

    I hope there are changes for the upcoming WI tour, the England camp seems to comfy for one. Get Kirsten in and identify players who have the temperament as much as the skill to succeed in Test cricket. 

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  20. International Cricket

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    3 hours ago, Super said:

    What's happened to Buttler? Not sure he has ever wanted to be on this tour.

    Harmison thinks its the end of his test career.

    I think it will be too. He looks totally lost and caught between trying to play his natural game and a more traditional Test innings. 

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  24. International Cricket

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    19 minutes ago, tin said:

    Smith would be mad not to enforce the follow-on. I reckon we will be 2 or 3 down by the close. 

    I’m in favour of ringing the changes for Melbourne:

    Hameed, Yates, Malan, Root, Stokes, Foakes (wk), Livingstone, Woakes, Robinson, Wood, Anderson/Broad. 

    At least that XI has more balance and variation to it. It won’t happen, though. 

    Like the look of that, I would replace Woakes with Mahmood as would like to see more of him 

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