The 'safe' option is Billings to come in to bat middle order and and be excellent in the outfield. (Hopefully no repeat of the dropped catch in the 2016 final when on as sub)
The bold option, and I believe the correct one, is David Willey. Adds bowling variety to the team and is a hugely dangerous hitter anywhere in the order.
The 'safe' option is Billings to come in to bat middle order and and be excellent in the outfield. (Hopefully no repeat of the dropped catch in the 2016 final when on as sub)
The bold option, and I believe the correct one, is David Willey. Adds bowling variety to the team and is a hugely dangerous hitter anywhere in the order.
As a Sussex fan i'm still scarred from watching David Willey whack us all around Hove in the Blast 1/4 final in 2015. Gives us an important extra option with the ball too
Too much hangs on the toss with matches starting at this time ICC utterly supplicant to BCCI and Indian TV deals Would starting 2 or 3 hours earlier so severely impact their TV audience they'd pay so much less? Obviously not. The integrity of the contest is undermined by the change in conditions as dusk falls. The kicker being the audiences for the knockout phase have been scuppered by India's elimination, which nobody at ICC was permitted to consider.
That said England selectors went all-in on the fitness of a player who's always been injury prone, at the same time leaving 2nd string players without match practice even against weaker opposition so they now come in green to the knockout matches. Bog standard duncery. It wasn't broke so with one eye closed didn't need fixing but they flogged it until it broke and have to run with plan B that hasn't been stress tested.
If this relatively sedate start continues and we lose one of these two soon then we need to send in either Moeen or Livingstone as the alternative will create even more pressure on those coming in later
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(Hopefully no repeat of the dropped catch in the 2016 final when on as sub)
The bold option, and I believe the correct one, is David Willey.
Adds bowling variety to the team and is a hugely dangerous hitter anywhere in the order.
Am making covers for feral cat traps.
Kill me now! 😳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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North of 190 required for any sense of comfort
Too much hangs on the toss with matches starting at this time
ICC utterly supplicant to BCCI and Indian TV deals
Would starting 2 or 3 hours earlier so severely impact their TV audience they'd pay so much less? Obviously not.
The integrity of the contest is undermined by the change in conditions as dusk falls.
The kicker being the audiences for the knockout phase have been scuppered by India's elimination, which nobody at ICC was permitted to consider.
That said England selectors went all-in on the fitness of a player who's always been injury prone, at the same time leaving 2nd string players without match practice even against weaker opposition so they now come in green to the knockout matches. Bog standard duncery. It wasn't broke so with one eye closed didn't need fixing but they flogged it until it broke and have to run with plan B that hasn't been stress tested.