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Gary Ballance, having left Yorkshire, is moving back to Zimbabwe to play domestically and for the national team next year0
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Can’t wait to see him get to 30 and get out the exact same way again and again.killerandflash said:Gary Ballance, having left Yorkshire, is moving back to Zimbabwe to play domestically and for the national team next year0 -
I just cannot understand why, a player of his standing and experience, such as Leach, especially as a finger spinner as opposed to a wrist spinner, lacks the control to put it on the spot. That is how you build pressure and the Pakistan batsmen don't have to take any risks when he keeps offering them freebies.4
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Jacks really isn't good enough. Very comparable to Lawrence - gives it a tweak at a slowish pace, can't land 6 in a row0
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He's a poor bowler really. Doesn't have the turn and guile to baffle batsmen, but also can't do the frustrating role either, building pressure or holding an end like an Ashley Giles couldAddick Addict said:I just cannot understand why, a player of his standing and experience, such as Leach, especially as a finger spinner as opposed to a wrist spinner, lacks the control to put it on the spot. That is how you build pressure and the Pakistan batsmen don't have to take any risks when he keeps offering them freebies.3 -
Much better pitch than last week. It took Bazball to prevent a tedious draw in the 1st Test, whereas this is a proper contest between bat and ball1
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I don't follow county cricket & can only comment on what I see during Tests & One dayers......but we dont seem have "spinners" but simply slow bowlers. Or have I been lucky to have just seen players like Shane Warne rip it past the off stump time & time again.killerandflash said:
He's a poor bowler really. Doesn't have the turn and guile to baffle batsmen, but also can't do the frustrating role either, building pressure or holding an end like an Ashley Giles couldAddick Addict said:I just cannot understand why, a player of his standing and experience, such as Leach, especially as a finger spinner as opposed to a wrist spinner, lacks the control to put it on the spot. That is how you build pressure and the Pakistan batsmen don't have to take any risks when he keeps offering them freebies.0 -
You ain't wrong mategolfaddick said:
I don't follow county cricket & can only comment on what I see during Tests & One dayers......but we dont seem have "spinners" but simply slow bowlers. Or have I been lucky to have just seen players like Shane Warne rip it past the off stump time & time again.killerandflash said:
He's a poor bowler really. Doesn't have the turn and guile to baffle batsmen, but also can't do the frustrating role either, building pressure or holding an end like an Ashley Giles couldAddick Addict said:I just cannot understand why, a player of his standing and experience, such as Leach, especially as a finger spinner as opposed to a wrist spinner, lacks the control to put it on the spot. That is how you build pressure and the Pakistan batsmen don't have to take any risks when he keeps offering them freebies.
A big part of not producing spin bowlers of test quality is to do with the way the county championship is scheduled.0 -
Livakovic is still playing in Zagreb. A few clubs will surely be looking at him now.0
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Is he a mystery spinner?killerandflash said:Livakovic is still playing in Zagreb. A few clubs will surely be looking at him now.1 -
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His scoring rate is too slow for the England teamCafc43v3r said:
Is he a mystery spinner?killerandflash said:Livakovic is still playing in Zagreb. A few clubs will surely be looking at him now.1 -
But he saved a penalty against Brazil. And we're always being told you should always pick your best keeper.killerandflash said:
His scoring rate is too slow for the England teamCafc43v3r said:
Is he a mystery spinner?killerandflash said:Livakovic is still playing in Zagreb. A few clubs will surely be looking at him now.1 -
Pakistan all out for 202.0
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142/2 to 179/9 madness1
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Meanwhile, India are playing in a dead rubber, and they're pissed off0
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Crawley runs himself out
carry on running to the airport and go home
a run out in test cricket
unforgivable
shocking
brain dead
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Jack Leach gets to 100 wickets in 50 bowling inns, the same number of inns as it took W Akram, C Vaas, S Akhtar, R Herath, M Starc, K Maharaj to reach 100
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That is a catch and a half0 -
Cafc43v3r said:Jack Leach gets to 100 wickets in 50 bowling inns, the same number of inns as it took W Akram, C Vaas, S Akhtar, R Herath, M Starc, K Maharaj to reach 100
One has to take into account though the fact that Leach will have bowled a lot more overs in those 50 innings than most of those bowlers. Leach has 102 career wickets @ 33.75 and an economy rate of 2.95. Wasim Akram, for example, took 414 wickets @ 23.62 and E/R of 2.59 and for a direct comparison with a spinner, Herath, took 433 wickets @ 28.07 and an E/R of 2.80. Only twice in his career has Leach picked up more than 6 wickets in a match.
In this series Leach has figures of 7-344. By comparison, the debutant, Abrar, has 9-142 in this match alone. For the final Test and especially if we win this one, I would like to see Rehan Ahmed being given his chance, probably instead of Jacks, just to see how he sits compared to not just Leach but also Abrar in potentially spin friendly conditions.0 -
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Can’t see Ahmed batting above 8 though so fitting him in alongside 3 seamers and Leach is difficult.1
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Just Pakistan things
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Not sure that we will play four seamers again if Stokes is fit to bowl - in this game Anderson, Robinson and Stokes have bowled just 10 between them. Stokes plus two other quicks with Foakes coming back to bat at 7, especially as Pope not coming out in the top 5 today suggests that he has struggled to cope in these conditions and bat at 3. Jacks only bowled 4 overs himself.cafcfan1990 said:Can’t see Ahmed batting above 8 though so fitting him in alongside 3 seamers and Leach is difficult.
As I say, should we win this Test then that effectively makes the final one a dead rubber. Ahmed is also potentially a very good all rounder and already has a First Class ton to his name despite having only had half a dozen innings. We won't get a better opportunity to blood the lad.0 -
Duckett is the comeback kid of the past few seasons, Root is well out of sorts, Leach is getting better and better
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I've taken that wicket before1
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I can't help thinking that Pope's decision making for those two balls was as much to do with mental fatigue as anything else2
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The second runout for England, but these things happen in tight run chases in white ball cricket...3
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He really could have done with not batting today.Addick Addict said:I can't help thinking that Pope's decision making for those two balls was as much to do with mental fatigue as anything else
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I've been out to that wicket before1
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Unbelievable
Pope pack your bags and head off with Crawley0
