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  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,984
    Baz ball is the biggest load of bollox to churn through English cricket in a fair old while.
    Time to tear it up and start again..as they should've done straight after the Ashes
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,240
    Addick Addict said:
    Good to see that Matt Henry's cricketing education in Kent wasn't wasted on him.
    I'm sure he's bowled teams out at The Oval before...
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 11,104
    Bethall is not a test match No 3. 
  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,382
    Went Friday, returned figures of 10 pints, 2 slashes and no food.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,487
    England squad for third Test: Ben Stokes (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Jordan Cox, Ben Duckett, Matthew Fisher, Emilio Gay, Ollie Robinson, Joe Root, Jamie Smith, Josh Tongue
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,893
    Feel sorry for the lad but Rew had an absolute mare……….will he get a second chance, 50/50 I’d say.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,487
    SoundAsa£ said:
    Feel sorry for the lad but Rew had an absolute mare……….will he get a second chance, 50/50 I’d say.
    Think his brother will play for England before he gets another go
  • raytreacy
    raytreacy Posts: 302
    It’s a big step up County cricket to international Cricket.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,876
    SoundAsa£ said:
    Feel sorry for the lad but Rew had an absolute mare……….will he get a second chance, 50/50 I’d say.
    Not as a wicketkeeper!

    I think he'll be back at some stage as a top order batsman.
  • Notts_Addick
    Notts_Addick Posts: 391
    edited June 21
    Do this team have any form of coaching or tactical input? 

    I don't want to jump on the bandwagon and bash McCallum but honestly this is such a poorly coached squad that it is almost unbelievable to think they are meant to be a professional outfit with millions of pounds of funding. The tactics seem to consist of

    Hit ball really hard
    Bowl as fast as you can 
    When all else fails bowl shorties 

    There seems to be absolutely no tactical plan or focus on skill whatsoever. It's almost like giving a few ten year olds a bat and a ball and telling them to play cricket, you'd expect to see the same end result. 

    Very early days to be writing any of the debutants off but I do worry that without a more professional setup they are just on a hiding to nothing because I dread to think how much actual coaching they are getting once called up. The step up from county cricket to international cricket is a huge one but surely the coaching and professionalism should reflect that. I imagine there are many counties with much better coaching and higher levels of professionalism than this current setup.

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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,084
    Rehan has to play, has to 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,487
    edited June 21
    fenaddick said:
    SoundAsa£ said:
    Feel sorry for the lad but Rew had an absolute mare……….will he get a second chance, 50/50 I’d say.
    Think his brother will play for England before he gets another go
    Speaking of, currently 133* (237) after coming in with Somerset 80/4. Second ton in as many games and he kept for 102 overs. Not even 19 years old yet
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,938
    How much longer are we going to watch opposing teams bowling at the stumps or slightly outside off & run through us like a knife through butter?

    Whilst we bowl short stuff, pitching half way down the wicket and get knocked all round the park? Absolutely brain dead.

    Rew & Baker looked nowhere near good enough to be considered again in the short term. Fisher wasn’t a good deal better and Cox should be cast aside based on his “hair cut”.
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,770
    Kudos in NZ today for Blundell keeping up to the stumps to Matt Henry’s fast medium and preventing the English batsmen advancing down the pitch.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,930
    edited June 22
    Covered End said:
    How much longer are we going to watch opposing teams bowling at the stumps or slightly outside off & run through us like a knife through butter?

    Whilst we bowl short stuff, pitching half way down the wicket and get knocked all round the park? Absolutely brain dead.

    Rew & Baker looked nowhere near good enough to be considered again in the short term. Fisher wasn’t a good deal better and Cox should be cast aside based on his “hair cut”.
    I was there on Thursday, and you could feel the resignation in the crowd when the bouncer barrage began. Whereas the likes of Fiery Fred and the 70's Windies would soften up the batsmen then spear something at the stumps, we just bowled the same abject rubbish over after over.

    The only team I've seen in recent times to get undone by this was England at Lords in the last home Ashes series - we were well on top and they started bouncing us, so our boneheaded batsmen started merrily hooking and effectively lost the series in one session.

    I would say that the old Aussie adage "You miss, I hit" has never made it across the world, but we managed it at Lords in the first test, unless the pitch was keeping it even lower than we thought  :)
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,487
    edited June 22
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,240
    Not sure he just mentions Bethell and Brook, as Archer, Cox and Tongue are also in both squads.

    Ridiculous scheduling to have them so close though. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,487

    England make 4 changes for the 3rd Test at Trent Bridge

    Duckett, Gay, Bethell, Root, Brook, Smith (wk), Stokes (c), Atkinson, Archer, Tongue, Bashir

    ⬅️ Rew, Cox, Fisher, Baker
    ➡️ Smith, Stokes, Atkinson, Bashir

    Robinson available but not selected

    Bashir in over Rehan Ahmed

    — Will Macpherson (@willis_macp) June 23, 2026
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,084
    Really. God 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,240
    With 5 bowlers and Atkinson at 8, I can understand playing Bashir. But this will be a big game for him, he has to bowl well.

    Leaving out Robinson, if he's fit, is a major call, seeing that it's a short turnaround between the 2nd and 3rd Tests, and Archer's durability is questionable.

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  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,487
    killerandflash said:
    With 5 bowlers and Atkinson at 8, I can understand playing Bashir. But this will be a big game for him, he has to bowl well.

    Leaving out Robinson, if he's fit, is a major call, seeing that it's a short turnaround between the 2nd and 3rd Tests, and Archer's durability is questionable.
    Given the heat at the moment not playing a spinner would have been criminal. Had decent figures last time he played a Test at TB too I think
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,240
    fenaddick said:
    killerandflash said:
    With 5 bowlers and Atkinson at 8, I can understand playing Bashir. But this will be a big game for him, he has to bowl well.

    Leaving out Robinson, if he's fit, is a major call, seeing that it's a short turnaround between the 2nd and 3rd Tests, and Archer's durability is questionable.
    Given the heat at the moment not playing a spinner would have been criminal. Had decent figures last time he played a Test at TB too I think
    With 5 bowlers, there was always going to be a spinner, but Ahmed would have strengthened the batting, so might have been an option.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,013
    fenaddick said:
    killerandflash said:
    With 5 bowlers and Atkinson at 8, I can understand playing Bashir. But this will be a big game for him, he has to bowl well.

    Leaving out Robinson, if he's fit, is a major call, seeing that it's a short turnaround between the 2nd and 3rd Tests, and Archer's durability is questionable.
    Given the heat at the moment not playing a spinner would have been criminal. Had decent figures last time he played a Test at TB too I think
    Virtually all the commentators on Sky said that Ahmed would be the better choice, especially as he had just got a ton at the weekend. And only pick Bashir if they wanted to go with 2 spinners. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,356
    golfaddick said:
    fenaddick said:
    killerandflash said:
    With 5 bowlers and Atkinson at 8, I can understand playing Bashir. But this will be a big game for him, he has to bowl well.

    Leaving out Robinson, if he's fit, is a major call, seeing that it's a short turnaround between the 2nd and 3rd Tests, and Archer's durability is questionable.
    Given the heat at the moment not playing a spinner would have been criminal. Had decent figures last time he played a Test at TB too I think
    Virtually all the commentators on Sky said that Ahmed would be the better choice, especially as he had just got a ton at the weekend. And only pick Bashir if they wanted to go with 2 spinners. 
    Not picking Bashir would mean that he would not have bowled a single ball for England for over a year even though he's been fit to do so for the duration.

    This management have been at pains to insist, in spite of the Ashes debacle, that he is still England's number one and not picking him now would send a completely contrary message. Whether we think he is the best spinner to play is irrelevant to their narrative and what they have conveyed to the public and Bashir himself.   
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,487
    Matt Henry and Glenn Phillips now ruled out for NZ as well as Jamieson
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 9,962
    fenaddick said:
    Matt Henry and Glenn Phillips now ruled out for NZ as well as Jamieson

    2 huge losses. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,487
    edited 9:32AM
    NZ win the toss and bat 

    NZ Team: Latham, Conway, Nicholls, Ravindra, Mitchell, Blundell, Santner, Smith, Tickner, Sears, O'Rourke
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,013
    Winning the toss has given NZ a big advantage. Wicket will deteriorate so batting last could be a problem. Also bowling first in almost 40° heat will not be fun. 


  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,487
    Purely from a contest perspective the England team from the second test against this NZ team would have seemed more competitive 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,240
    Unfortunate for the series that the teams for the 2nd and 3rd Tests have been so affected by absences.

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