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England v Sri Lanka Test Series
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Danny Briggs & Scott Borthwick are two young spinners with potential.
I'd have selected Briggs and given him time to develop into a top spinner.
Graeme Swann really rates Borthwick as well and he also bats in the top four for Durham.0 -
Borthwick - Batsman who bowls and too erratic.
Briggs - doesnt spin the ball enough.
Tredwell - one ball Jimmy.
Patel - too fat.
Kerrigan - not even playing for Lancashire
Monte it is then !
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And the spinner makes the breakthrough trapping Sangakkara lbw :-)0
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And he gets another :-)0
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This is an absolutely cracking wicket to watch cricket on!1
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The_President said:
People are so fickle. 1 year ago we beat Oz 3-0 , 18 months ago we beat India IN INDIA 2-1, and after 1 series whitewash and the fact that we are not smashing SL in 2 days everyone jumps on the band-wagon. We do have a 'proper' spinner in Monty - however, he seems to be going through a bit of a personal 'plight' at the moment - but not many nations have as many choices as we did/do.CafcSteve said:Sri Lanka aren't a very good test cricket team though, so we should be competing with them on home soil.
Agree that we are now in the stage of re-building, so have to give time.
Surely we should be developing a proper spinner.
Just think that this team would get thrashed against Australia or SA.
Some people !
Problem is, since then we have lost KP, Trott & Swann - all 3 are world class players and without them we are going to stru8ggle until they are truly replaced.
I'm not into county cricket so I don't know who is out there, but from what I've seen Ali is no replacement for Swann and whatever Monty's "outside" problems are, he is the best spinner we have & should be in the team.
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I know for a fact that England have been keeping a close eye on Adam Riley of Kent. Bit too soon right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if he is in contention for the India series.The_President said:Borthwick - Batsman who bowls and too erratic.
Briggs - doesnt spin the ball enough.
Tredwell - one ball Jimmy.
Patel - too fat.
Kerrigan - not even playing for Lancashire
Monte it is then !0 -
Swann mentioned he has been asked to coach Borthwick, Kerrigan and Riley.0
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Jayawardene c Prior b Anderson 79
SL 268-5 Lead by 160.0 -
277-6
Chandimal c Ballance b Plunkett 70 -
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Come on England, pull this around. Chasing anything over 250 at Headingley is squeaky bum time...0
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277-7
Prasad c Root b Plunkett 0 1st ball0 -
Plunkett on a hat-trick... well batted away by Mathews.0
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325 for 7 now, think they might have too many already for us.
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344-7
Poor bowling.0 -
I really hope this is Cooks last test as captain. He is a shocking captain!0
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383-70
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Ffs0
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426-8
Herath run out 48
Matthews 149 no.
Luckily, Matthews pretty much ran out Herath, because we were never looking like getting either out.
SL lead by 318 at Tea.0 -
But similarly to the England football team, who do you replace him with?Chrissy\\\'s Army!! said:I really hope this is Cooks last test as captain. He is a shocking captain!
There's no natural leaders in the team.0 -
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NB I wouldn't give Yorkshire another Test. The size of the crowds have been pathetic.
Tomorrow it's £5 & free for accompanied U16's.0 -
Well, if you waste your reviews that's what happens. Pathetic display all day from Cook and the front line bowlers.
Mind you, old Billy is something else.
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Why not try taking away a lot of the power and responsibility of the job, and appointing a captain based on the players you pick for any given game. If you don't have anybody with the necessary skills you have to appoint the best player available who possesses them - but under the current system - you stick with the captain for too long if his form is no good! Giving Cook the right to decide the inetrnational future of England's best player only illustrates how the current systen is antiquated. We now seem to be stuck with this out of form batsman who is a useless cowardly captain.0
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437-9
Matthews c Ali b Anderson 160.0 -
457 All Out.
Pradeep b Anderson 0
350 to win.0 -
Need a good start - looks bad! Maybe our captain wil make a decent contribution with the bat for a change!0
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England best 4th innings winning total is 332-7.0
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Cricket, two world cup games and Wimbledon. Getting RSI pressing the remote:)0
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Re - DRS. I believe this needs tweaking as the whole purpose is to make sure the right decision is made, and now we all know that Billy Bowden made a howler and England should have had Si Lanka out sooner than they did - just because England had no reviews left shouldn't mean a bad decision isn't overturned.PeanutsMolloy said:Well, if you waste your reviews that's what happens. Pathetic display all day from Cook and the front line bowlers.
Mind you, old Billy is something else.
Perhaps is the more frivolous appeals to use DRS were penalised then the players would only refer the definite ones - perhaps by adding on 10 runs to the opposition. In this case England (knowing that there was a def edge) wouldn't worry about adding on an extra 10 runs as they all knew he was out - if they were just going for a gamble as they had run out of ideas then they wouldn't try.
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Disagree - think Broad is a much more positive captain than Cook- he has sown this in the limited overs games he has captained.JohnBoyUK said:
But similarly to the England football team, who do you replace him with?Chrissy\\\'s Army!! said:I really hope this is Cooks last test as captain. He is a shocking captain!
There's no natural leaders in the team.
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