Outside of Marsh and Stokes who were the two destructive batsmen, the Aussie top scores were 39, 22 and 21 while the English top scores were 33, 24 and 21.
Bairstow up the order is not the solution when he can't bat down the order. His keeping is average at best. Time to recall a wicket keeper who might not score as many as bairstow but wouldn't drop catches which will let the Aussies get away from us........time for billings
seriously, foakes has to come in for the next test
Billings makes Bairstow look like Adam Gilchrist. He has batted 25 times this season and has a top score of 36 and has been dropped from the Kent CC side.
It should be Foakes but, as I've said before, coaches have this habit of giving as many chances as they can to players who they want to prove themselves right and as few as possible to those that might prove them wrong. England confirmed last summer that the next two on the rank are Jamie Smith and that other Ollie Robinson. Smith has Foakes in front of him at Surrey but has scored 484 runs at an average of 44.00 at a SR of 61.03 whereas Robinson has scored 734 runs (and 3rd top run scorer in Division 2) at an average of 66.72 and an incredible SR of 87.17
I was supposed to put a laughing face emoji at the end of the billings comment. If I did, I would have saved you 19 mins proving why billings isn't the answer.
Bairstow up the order is not the solution when he can't bat down the order. His keeping is average at best. Time to recall a wicket keeper who might not score as many as bairstow but wouldn't drop catches which will let the Aussies get away from us........time for billings
seriously, foakes has to come in for the next test
Billings makes Bairstow look like Adam Gilchrist. He has batted 25 times this season and has a top score of 36 and has been dropped from the Kent CC side.
It should be Foakes but, as I've said before, coaches have this habit of giving as many chances as they can to players who they want to prove themselves right and as few as possible to those that might prove them wrong. England confirmed last summer that the next two on the rank are Jamie Smith and that other Ollie Robinson. Smith has Foakes in front of him at Surrey but has scored 484 runs at an average of 44.00 at a SR of 61.03 whereas Robinson has scored 734 runs (and 3rd top run scorer in Division 2) at an average of 66.72 and an incredible SR of 87.17
I was supposed to put a laughing face emoji at the end of the billings comment. If I did, I would have saved you 19 mins proving why billings isn't the answer.
soz 😬
I never thought that you were advocating Billings. But there might be some on here that think you are! It was more the point that if Foakes, for whatever reason, isn't "flavour of the month" there are one or two out there that might be. Given the county that Robinson is now out I'm sure Stokes is more than aware of what those at close hand think of his performances this season.
Bairstow and Ali .. what t f were they thinking .. still, Stokes and Robinson got us close .. let's see how Wood goes in the 2nd .. he really should take the first over
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Very evenly balanced match.
Horrible little shit
3rd: Ambrose / Atherton, Walsh / Atherton, Broad / Warner (17 times)
2nd: Bedser / Morris (18 times)
1st: McGrath / Atherton (19 times)