Entertaining knock by Stokes, but confused why he was playing in T20 mode. We're not batting for a declaration
This.
We've been rattling along at 4 an over & although I love to see attacking batting we are still 150 runs behind.
No need to try to hit every ball for 6.
He does it too often imo, there will be enough bad balls to put away if you bat long enough. Him and Root should just have kept the score card ticking over. Plenty of value to be had for your shots and no need to force it.
This is the only time this test team is crying out for Buttler. Imagine him coming in on this deck against a knackered bowling attack. We’d be at 600-6 before lunch tomorrow. Well, that or 463-7 tonight.
Stupid stupid Stokes ….. gave his wicket away when we are still long way behind in the match he has to think of the team now not just himself
Your the stupid one
@RonnieMoore will go down in history for his astonishingly low IQ, but you can’t call somebody stupid and not know the difference between your & you’re.
The tricky thing is whether to go for consistency over a long career, or to go for players who had a really high peak, but didn't last as long e.g. Harmison. Also Vaughan was a brilliant captain, but scored a lot more runs without the job, so tempted to give it to Gooch who improved his batting as a captain!
Knott gets the gloves as I need a Kent player in the side! Underwood would come in for one of the seamers on a turning pitch.
The tricky thing is whether to go for consistency over a long career, or to go for players who had a really high peak, but didn't last as long e.g. Harmison. Also Vaughan was a brilliant captain, but scored a lot more runs without the job, so tempted to give it to Gooch who improved his batting as a captain!
Knott gets the gloves as I need a Kent player in the side! Underwood would come in for one of the seamers on a turning pitch.
at their absolute prime, so S jones during the 05 ashes was one of the most effective bowlers i've ever seen. But he was mostly injured in his short career.
Any chance of a groundsman in this country finding a good balance between bat and ball?
Feels like after all the criticism of the bowler friendly pitches following the Ashes, some have gone too far the other way and prepared roads.
Thought there might be some balance coming back after the low scoring affair at Lords but after watching some of this Test, it seems like we’re at one extreme or the other.
This is only the case if you look at the scorecard in isolation. I think the pitch was actually decent and had plenty in it for both bat and ball. Good value for your shots but still plenty of bounce and carry for the quicks and just started to show a little spin in day 3 which suggests it'll turn more day 4 and 5. How many dropped catches have there been in this match? would have looked very different if they had been taken.
dont think there is much to really criticise this pitch for tbh.
The tricky thing is whether to go for consistency over a long career, or to go for players who had a really high peak, but didn't last as long e.g. Harmison. Also Vaughan was a brilliant captain, but scored a lot more runs without the job, so tempted to give it to Gooch who improved his batting as a captain!
Knott gets the gloves as I need a Kent player in the side! Underwood would come in for one of the seamers on a turning pitch.
2nd 11
Boycott Strauss (C) Trott KP Thorpe Flintoff Prior (wk) Broad S Jones Underwood Willis
3rd 11
Atherton (C) Trescothick Gatting Bell Collingwood Stokes Stewart (wk) Moeen Wood Gough Hoggard
I'd like to see those 3 teams (at their peak) play each other! That 3rd 11 has a ridiculously short tail.
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But.
I just love it when he's on the wrong end of a review.
We've been rattling along at 4 an over & although I love to see attacking batting we are still 150 runs behind.
No need to try to hit every ball for 6.
Gotta be up there.
Atherton
Cook (c)
Gooch
Root
Pietersen
Stokes
Stewart (wk)
Flintoff
Swann
Anderson
S Jones
Possibly the greatest English batsman of all time by the time he retires
Cook
Gower
Root
Vaughan (C)
Botham
Knott (wk)
Swann
Broad
Harmison
Anderson
The tricky thing is whether to go for consistency over a long career, or to go for players who had a really high peak, but didn't last as long e.g. Harmison. Also Vaughan was a brilliant captain, but scored a lot more runs without the job, so tempted to give it to Gooch who improved his batting as a captain!
Knott gets the gloves as I need a Kent player in the side! Underwood would come in for one of the seamers on a turning pitch.
Cook (C)
Gower
Root
Pietersen
Botham
Knott (WK)
Broad
Underwood
Willis
Anderson
https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/england/mark_alleyne_neil_killeen_join_england_staff_netherlands_series.html
if he was in this era, mark alleyne would have 100% been our white ball captain.
dont think there is much to really criticise this pitch for tbh.
Boycott
Strauss (C)
Trott
KP
Thorpe
Flintoff
Prior (wk)
Broad
S Jones
Underwood
Willis
3rd 11
Atherton (C)
Trescothick
Gatting
Bell
Collingwood
Stokes
Stewart (wk)
Moeen
Wood
Gough
Hoggard
I'd like to see those 3 teams (at their peak) play each other! That 3rd 11 has a ridiculously short tail.
I reckon if you asked 100 people to name their top 5, he would be unlikely to feature at all.
Cook
Trott
Kp
Root
Bell
Prior (w)
Swann
Jones
Gough
Anderson
Ask me later and I'll change 5 of them.