Yeah leave out Stokes who won't play anyway and play both!
Bairstow opening isn't the answer.
Making Pope as Vice Captain actually makes the situation worse TBH.
You can't fit Pope, Root, Stokes, Brook, Bairstow and Folkes into the same team, especially if Stokes can't bowl.
I honestly think that if Stokes wasn't captain, and let's be honest his is the heart and soul of the team, and couldn't bowl I don't think he would get in the team.
People saying that you need to have a proper opener and that Bairstow (or any others) aren't suited to it. Which would be a fair point if we had an opener who was suited to it. Carwley can hardly claim to be a proper opener at test level and its hardly like his gap between bat and pad is any smaller than Bairstows.
Arguably you'd get more from Zak if you batted him down the order than opening. As you would with Duckett and about every English batsman at the moment.
Normally I always want a cricketer to be successful whenever they pull on an England Jersey. But part of me wants Bairstow to drop a couple of easy chances and get out for a duck when we play Ireland
Normally I always want a cricketer to be successful whenever they pull on an England Jersey. But part of me wants Bairstow to drop a couple of easy chances and get out for a duck when we play Ireland
I want him to score runs but not keep at all well.
Working my nuts off today to sack off work and go down to Hove. Unbelievable turn around from Sussex this summer
Impact of Farbrace?
I hope your top 3 all get tons and then Smith gets a golden!
Yeah Farbrace has no doubt been the catalyst behind it. Gives the young players a lot more freedom, but by the same token expects them to work much harder. The whole side is a lot fitter and more disciplined. He's also shacked up with Ollie Robinson's mum so I think he's been threatening to send Ollie to his room if he doesn't get 10 wickets a game!
I also cannot get behind Steve Smith I hope he fails every innings! He makes us a weaker side as we can't pick McAndrew who balances the bowling attack. Ari Karvelas coming back from injury has been good too. Proper player
Working my nuts off today to sack off work and go down to Hove. Unbelievable turn around from Sussex this summer
second cousin of mine that i see every once in a while was moaning about sussex over the winter. Must be delighted with them atm.
Wasn't expecting it after the chaos of last season with split coaches , about 6 different overseas in the Blast because of international duty and the weird departure of Ian Salisbury.
The sooner Harry Brook (Root and Stokes too) gets on the plane from the IPL and starts playing some red ball the better. He has scored 190 in 11 innings but 100* came in one game. Since that big one his scores have been 9, 18, 7, 0, 0, 27* and 0 (first ball today). Equally, Joe Root has scored 10 runs and bowled two overs since February and Stokes has 15 runs to his name and has bowled one over for 18 runs in the same period. That is not an ideal prep for The Ashes.
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Bairstow opening isn't the answer.
Making Pope as Vice Captain actually makes the situation worse TBH.
You can't fit Pope, Root, Stokes, Brook, Bairstow and Folkes into the same team, especially if Stokes can't bowl.
I honestly think that if Stokes wasn't captain, and let's be honest his is the heart and soul of the team, and couldn't bowl I don't think he would get in the team.
Arguably you'd get more from Zak if you batted him down the order than opening. As you would with Duckett and about every English batsman at the moment.
https://youtu.be/W2ZEOG9b0Ds
But part of me wants Bairstow to drop a couple of easy chances and get out for a duck when we play Ireland
its Crawley I want out for a king pair!
Yeah got Marnus third ball for one , absolutely plum.
I hope your top 3 all get tons and then Smith gets a golden!
A bit of Farbrace , a bit of having Robinson available and a bit of Pujara being an exceptional captain.
I also cannot get behind Steve Smith I hope he fails every innings! He makes us a weaker side as we can't pick McAndrew who balances the bowling attack. Ari Karvelas coming back from injury has been good too. Proper player
Don't especially want to see Hunt in any format really. Not sure what's going on with Garton either unless he's still coming back from concussion.
Wasn't expecting it after the chaos of last season with split coaches , about 6 different overseas in the Blast because of international duty and the weird departure of Ian Salisbury.