When you contrast Roy and Hales, you wonder if a good performance in this series will get Roy on the winter tours as a Test player?
Painful watching Morgan out there, after Root's effortless batting. We've been carrying his batting for a while now...
I didn't think Morgs was too bad - just playing himself in as he didn't need to go ballistic as we only needed circa 4 an over. But, must admit, his performances have been below par recently - maybe they will look to get Rooty in as captain in a years time, and then look to bring along the likes of Duckett,Billings etc.
There's been a lot of talk about Roy as a Test player - someone pointed out that he only had a First-class average of 31, but someone else also pointed out that Trescothick and Vaughan had similar first-class avgs before being picked for England.
When you contrast Roy and Hales, you wonder if a good performance in this series will get Roy on the winter tours as a Test player?
Painful watching Morgan out there, after Root's effortless batting. We've been carrying his batting for a while now...
I didn't think Morgs was too bad - just playing himself in as he didn't need to go ballistic as we only needed circa 4 an over. But, must admit, his performances have been below par recently - maybe they will look to get Rooty in as captain in a years time, and then look to bring along the likes of Duckett,Billings etc.
There's been a lot of talk about Roy as a Test player - someone pointed out that he only had a First-class average of 31, but someone else also pointed out that Trescothick and Vaughan had similar first-class avgs before being picked for England.
Roy isn't a test match player, he would get out in a similar fashion to Vince. He will get a chance before bd and northeast because he plays for a more glamorous county.
When you contrast Roy and Hales, you wonder if a good performance in this series will get Roy on the winter tours as a Test player?
Painful watching Morgan out there, after Root's effortless batting. We've been carrying his batting for a while now...
I didn't think Morgs was too bad - just playing himself in as he didn't need to go ballistic as we only needed circa 4 an over. But, must admit, his performances have been below par recently - maybe they will look to get Rooty in as captain in a years time, and then look to bring along the likes of Duckett,Billings etc.
There's been a lot of talk about Roy as a Test player - someone pointed out that he only had a First-class average of 31, but someone else also pointed out that Trescothick and Vaughan had similar first-class avgs before being picked for England.
Roy isn't a test match player, he would get out in a similar fashion to Vince. He will get a chance before bd and northeast because he plays for a more glamorous county.
Morgs was struggling, which led to the desperate run and run out of Root who was scoring runs for fun!
As for Roy, I have doubts over him as a Test opener, but it seems off that Hales has been given loads of chances to justify himself in the Test team whereas his ODI partner has never been tried.
Indeed there was a case for leaving Hales out of the ODI team for this series, as to me he seems worn out mentally by his struggles to work out a batting tempo in Test cricket
On reflection, there is a heck of a lot of good young players coming through... Curran bros - especially Sam, who is going to be an all-rounder superstar Habeeb Mahmood - Lancs quick Duckett Lawrence Joe Clarke Wells Crane
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260-6 off 50 overs. I reckon 270 was the minimum they needed, so England to win.
All the bowlers did well, no standouts.
Sky 407
Virgin 507
Painful watching Morgan out there, after Root's effortless batting. We've been carrying his batting for a while now...
There's been a lot of talk about Roy as a Test player - someone pointed out that he only had a First-class average of 31, but someone else also pointed out that Trescothick and Vaughan had similar first-class avgs before being picked for England.
As for Roy, I have doubts over him as a Test opener, but it seems off that Hales has been given loads of chances to justify himself in the Test team whereas his ODI partner has never been tried.
Indeed there was a case for leaving Hales out of the ODI team for this series, as to me he seems worn out mentally by his struggles to work out a batting tempo in Test cricket
gets his chance as England opener albeit via the Lions.
Curran bros - especially Sam, who is going to be an all-rounder superstar
Habeeb
Mahmood - Lancs quick
Duckett
Lawrence
Joe Clarke
Wells
Crane
2-1
Pakistan 2-2 off 2.2 overs.
2-3
68-4