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Post by Nice boy on Jul 6, 2017 10:00:26 GMT
It's good to see test match cricket back! England win the toss and are batting first. Interesting team selection: Ballance is in at 3 and Dawson is playing, which is quite an odd selection. Even though he's been in bad form it's also disappointing not to see Hameed playing after his performances in India.
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Post by Attentive Onlooker on Jul 6, 2017 10:07:11 GMT
It's good to see test match cricket back! England win the toss and are batting first. Interesting team selection: Ballance is in at 3 and Dawson is playing, which is quite an odd selection. Even though he's been in bad form it's also disappointing not to see Hameed playing after his performances in India. He'll be back and no doubt have a good career. It's the usual way with younger players. Better to ease him in than burn him out.
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Post by Nice boy on Jul 6, 2017 10:14:49 GMT
It's good to see test match cricket back! England win the toss and are batting first. Interesting team selection: Ballance is in at 3 and Dawson is playing, which is quite an odd selection. Even though he's been in bad form it's also disappointing not to see Hameed playing after his performances in India. He'll be back and no doubt have a good career. It's the usual way with younger players. Better to ease him in than burn him out. He'll back but we are very conservative when it comes to playing youngsters. Sub continent team have no problem doing it. With us it's more "we don't want to put too much pressure on him" "let him have another season in County Cricket". Stop fucking around and get him in I say! If he's good enough he's old enough.
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Post by Nice boy on Jul 6, 2017 10:15:33 GMT
Cook's out.
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Post by Attentive Onlooker on Jul 6, 2017 10:29:21 GMT
He'll be back and no doubt have a good career. It's the usual way with younger players. Better to ease him in than burn him out. He'll back but we are very conservative when it comes to playing youngsters. Sub continent team have no problem doing it. With us it's more "we don't want to put too much pressure on him" "let him have another season in County Cricket". Stop fucking around and get him in I say! If he's good enough he's old enough. We do play more test match cricket than most other nations. It's a busy schedule for any cricketer these days.
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Post by Nice boy on Jul 6, 2017 10:39:07 GMT
He'll back but we are very conservative when it comes to playing youngsters. Sub continent team have no problem doing it. With us it's more "we don't want to put too much pressure on him" "let him have another season in County Cricket". Stop fucking around and get him in I say! If he's good enough he's old enough. We do play more test match cricket than most other nations. It's a busy schedule for any cricketer these days. Hameed doesn't play one day or t20 cricket so his schedule wouldn't be that crammed. He can or should be able to manage just test matches. He's playing County cricket so is not exactly resting either.
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Post by Neshead on Jul 6, 2017 11:27:45 GMT
Why do we persevere with Ballance, he's never international standard.
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Post by Neshead on Jul 6, 2017 11:40:40 GMT
Listening on test match special. Best show on the radio.
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Post by Hobhead on Jul 6, 2017 11:51:40 GMT
Listening on test match special. Best show on the radio. Agreed. The commentators and summarisers piss all over their footballing equivalents. There's no intelligence in English football whatsoever but there's plenty in cricket.
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Post by Nice boy on Jul 6, 2017 12:05:20 GMT
South Africa are well ahead after the first session.
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Post by CL on Jul 6, 2017 12:14:40 GMT
Cook’s shot was poor. Jennings looked very nervous. Other than the odd waft Ballance looked comfortable, then same old LBW claim. I’d like to know how many times he gets out LBW in the County format? He’s been fantastic so far for Yorkshire this season and scored tonnes of runs. For me, Ballance should be in the side purely because his form has been outstanding so far in County Champ...but...not at 3! Root should be 3 and I'd probably put Ballance about 5/6.
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Post by Neshead on Jul 6, 2017 12:33:45 GMT
Cook’s shot was poor. Jennings looked very nervous. Other than the odd waft Ballance looked comfortable, then same old LBW claim. I’d like to know how many times he gets out LBW in the County format? He’s been fantastic so far for Yorkshire this season and scored tonnes of runs. For me, Ballance should be in the side purely because his form has been outstanding so far in County Champ...but...not at 3! Root should be 3 and I'd probably put Ballance about 5/6. Ballance isn't good enough, he's decent enough county cricketer.
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Post by Nice boy on Jul 6, 2017 12:37:05 GMT
Cook’s shot was poor. Jennings looked very nervous. Other than the odd waft Ballance looked comfortable, then same old LBW claim. I’d like to know how many times he gets out LBW in the County format? He’s been fantastic so far for Yorkshire this season and scored tonnes of runs. For me, Ballance should be in the side purely because his form has been outstanding so far in County Champ...but...not at 3! Root should be 3 and I'd probably put Ballance about 5/6. His technique is decent enough to face 75mph bowlers but not good enough to face top quality fast bowling. He doesn't play the short ball well and as a result hangs back to balls he should be coming forward too. This makes him vulnerable to both the short and full ball, not the best combination to have!
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Post by Hoochy on Jul 6, 2017 14:45:23 GMT
Root should be in at 3. Best batsmen come in at 3.
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Post by CL on Jul 6, 2017 15:36:52 GMT
Cook’s shot was poor. Jennings looked very nervous. Other than the odd waft Ballance looked comfortable, then same old LBW claim. I’d like to know how many times he gets out LBW in the County format? He’s been fantastic so far for Yorkshire this season and scored tonnes of runs. For me, Ballance should be in the side purely because his form has been outstanding so far in County Champ...but...not at 3! Root should be 3 and I'd probably put Ballance about 5/6. His technique is decent enough to face 75mph bowlers but not good enough to face top quality fast bowling. He doesn't play the short ball well and as a result hangs back to balls he should be coming forward too. This makes him vulnerable to both the short and full ball, not the best combination to have! I don't know why he hangs back in his crease so much?! You'd of thought by now certainly on English wickets you know that on 99.9% of them you need to get as forward as much as possible.
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Post by CL on Jul 6, 2017 15:37:17 GMT
Sir Joe Root with another 100! What a talent.
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Post by Hobhead on Jul 6, 2017 16:05:18 GMT
Ballance is the new Hick.
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Post by Hobhead on Jul 6, 2017 16:39:04 GMT
Root out on 149. Fuck!
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Post by Hobhead on Jul 6, 2017 16:39:47 GMT
Nope. No ball. Ha!
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Post by Hobhead on Jul 6, 2017 16:40:27 GMT
150 up. Whaddaguy.
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