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Dawson being there would certainly help the balance of the side.1
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Set your alarm for 6.30, 10mins to make a coffee ahead of the 6.40 afternoon session.golfaddick said:Who's up at 4am tomorrow then ? I pay £20pm for TNT Sports so I like to get my money's worth but I think I might be struggling with this one.
So maybe up for 7ish for the afternoon and evening sessions.Tempted to get up for first ball, listen to first session and get to office for 6.40.0 -
Interesting. Can't see us going in with only one seamer.Addick Addict said:
I don't think that there is a problem. We just seem fixated on the fact that it will be a waste of having more than one, so much so that I could see us opening with two spinners and only Wood's express pace in short bursts as and when. Now whether having two rookie spinners instead of one plus another experienced seamer remains to be seen. India, on the other hand, can afford to have Ashwin and Jadeja, with their 500 plus wickets between them at 21 apiece since 2012, plus two front line seamers.mid_life_crisis said:
Stokes can't be fit to bowl surely.Addick Addict said:Well Stokes is fit to play but whether he can bowl remains to be seen. If he can't then our only seam option is someone who can probably only bowl in 4/5 over spells.
1. Zak Crawley
2. Ben Duckett
3. Ollie Pope
4. Joe Root
5. Jonny Bairstow
6. Ben Stokes (C)
7. Ben Foakes
8. Rehan Ahmed
9. Tom Hartley
10. Mark Wood
11. Jack Leach
What's the problem with our other seam options then?
Root will bowl a lot of overs across the five tests.0 -
I think that there has probably been an acceptance from Key/McCullum/Stokes about Dawson. This was "dressed up" by Key saying that Dawson wouldn't want to be 15th or 16th man and that Hartley will be much more of a handful than Dawson in Indian conditions. He even said that we should ignore CC successes when assessing the impact of each, a narrative probably designed to justify the selection of 24 year old Hartley with his 40 FC wickets and for that matter 18 year old Rehan Ahmed and his 24 FC wickets.cantersaddick said:Dawson being there would certainly help the balance of the side.
The facts are that Dawson is not centrally contracted and is able to, with his experience at his age (34 in March), play franchise cricket that will earn him more than "potentially" playing for England. His SA20 contract, for example, is believed to be in the region of £150,000-£200,000, greater than around £100,000 from match and tour fees were he to play all five Tests in India. Dawson turned down England’s white-ball tour of Bangladesh to play in the Pakistan Super League and that was probably indicative of where he and his cricket is at. The India tour would have been a short-term Test return and Key will know that Dawson probably doesn't wish to jeopardise his longer-term relationship with his South African franchise by leaving that competition early.0 -
I'll record it and watch it all when I get up.golfaddick said:Who's up at 4am tomorrow then ? I pay £20pm for TNT Sports so I like to get my money's worth but I think I might be struggling with this one.
So maybe up for 7ish for the afternoon and evening sessions.0 -
If Dawson had been called up instead of Moeen last summer, maybe he wouldn't have burned bridges with England.
Instead we went with Moeen who retired again from Test cricket anyway.3 -
I didn't realise that England had already confirmed that XI.mid_life_crisis said:
Interesting. Can't see us going in with only one seamer.Addick Addict said:
I don't think that there is a problem. We just seem fixated on the fact that it will be a waste of having more than one, so much so that I could see us opening with two spinners and only Wood's express pace in short bursts as and when. Now whether having two rookie spinners instead of one plus another experienced seamer remains to be seen. India, on the other hand, can afford to have Ashwin and Jadeja, with their 500 plus wickets between them at 21 apiece since 2012, plus two front line seamers.mid_life_crisis said:
Stokes can't be fit to bowl surely.Addick Addict said:Well Stokes is fit to play but whether he can bowl remains to be seen. If he can't then our only seam option is someone who can probably only bowl in 4/5 over spells.
1. Zak Crawley
2. Ben Duckett
3. Ollie Pope
4. Joe Root
5. Jonny Bairstow
6. Ben Stokes (C)
7. Ben Foakes
8. Rehan Ahmed
9. Tom Hartley
10. Mark Wood
11. Jack Leach
What's the problem with our other seam options then?
Root will bowl a lot of overs across the five tests.
Four spin options and one seamer. Not exactly what you'd term a balanced attack. Hope they've read the pitch right.1 -
And maybe Dawson might then have been given a central contract this year. Can't blame him for looking at someone like Rehan Ahmed who has done relatively nothing in the game with an underpin of around £500k and thinking that he needs to cement relationships elsewhere if he is going to earn the most that he can with so few years left as a pro.killerandflash said:If Dawson had been called up instead of Moeen last summer, maybe he wouldn't have burned bridges with England.
Instead we went with Moeen who retired again from Test cricket anyway.1 -
England win the toss and will bat first.1
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19-0 after 3 overs
Crawley 9 (11)
Duckett 10 (7)1 - Sponsored links:
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31-0 after 6 overs
Crawley 15 (17)
Duckett 15 (20)0 -
When I saw the team yesterday I realised this is going to be a long series for England. That bowling attack of 2 rookie spinners, 1 bog standard experienced spinner, and an erratic paceman... against one of the strongest batting lineups on their own fortress.
Supported by a batting lineup that likes to throw away their wickets recklessly in clusters.
Absolutely no chance.0 -
41-0 after 9 overs
Crawley 16 (28)
Duckett 23 (27)
Spinners on now, going to be a trickier period if that Jadeja over was a sign of things to come.0 -
55-1
Duckett 35 (39) lbw Ashwin
Duckett reviewed it but decision stands on umpire’s call. Clipping the top of leg stump.0 -
Drinks break.
58-1 after 14 overs
Crawley 20 (39)
Pope 1 (7)0 -
58-2
Pope 1 (11) caught at slip off Jadeja.0 -
India send an lbw review against Root to DRS but he got a faint edge on it. Jadeja disappointed.0
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60-3
Crawley 20 (40) caught at mid off driving Ashwin0 -
76-3 after 19 overs
Bairstow 14 (17)
Root 4 (8)0 -
Was hoping for a slightly better score. Missed first ball. Ignored alarm.0
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100 up for England in the 26th over
100-3
Bairstow 25 (33)
Root 17 (31)1 -
End of morning session on day 1…
108-3 after 28 overs
Bairstow 32 (44)
Root 18 (35)0 -
A good recovery act from the Yorkshire pair after a mid session wobble where England lost three wickets for five runs.
55-0 -> 60-3 -> 108-31 -
121-4
Bairstow bowled by a beauty from Patel for 37 (58)0 -
And Root rapidly follows - top edge playing a sweep to Jadeja and is caught at short fine leg for 29 (59)
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Foakes caught behind off Patel for 4 (24)
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One thing is clear. Bazball hasn't made it to India.
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Decided we will lose every game so not going to watch. Australian Open for me.0
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The way we are batting anyone would think we had no warm up games.
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The first 8 overs were seam and we were 41-0. The next 37 overs have been spin off which we made 101-6.0
