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RE: England's tour of the West Indies 2019 - Baggievicar - 26-01-2019
Errr... that was a bit messy. Eight wickets for a bloke bowling pies.
Can we cancel the Ashes now?
RE: England's tour of the West Indies 2019 - themaclad - 26-01-2019
They were good pies though
RE: England's tour of the West Indies 2019 - jjamez - 26-01-2019
Shocking performance all round. Wrong team selection to begin with. How to solve a problem like moeen? In my opinion its to be ruthless and tell him he isn't good enough because frankly he isn't, not as a batter nor as a bowler. His bessie rash should be dropped too, probably should be the last time he plays in the whites, both are good limited overs players but dont have the mentality for the longer form.
As for Jennings, does good fielding in the sri lanka series warrant selection as an opener despite his poor average? Not for me. Next cab off the rank?
RE: England's tour of the West Indies 2019 - themaclad - 26-01-2019
Think we've run out of cabs and ranks
RE: England's tour of the West Indies 2019 - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 27-01-2019
Unless we give Stoneman another chance (which he's done nothing to warrant), it's basically between Hameed and Nick Gubbins, isn't it? Hameed did nothing wrong in his brief Test cameo and was unlucky with the injury, but his nosedive in county form ever since doesn't inspire confidence. Gubbins had a poor 2018 playing in Division Two; is he really going to get his mojo back by getting dropped in at the deep end against Oz?
RE: England's tour of the West Indies 2019 - jjamez - 27-01-2019
I think we are quite lucky that the ashes come late on in the summer next year so it gives everyone chance to score runs in the championship. I hope the selectors pick on weight of runs over character like they have been doing, because lets be fair, you can have all the character in the world, but if you haven't got the technique or ability, you're going nowhere.
Its a big summer for the likes of duckett at notts, gubbins and even robson at middlesex and stoneman at surrey. There is no problem with going back to someone already tried, if they are in form
RE: England's tour of the West Indies 2019 - Lord Snooty - 27-01-2019
Lack of preparation? Two miniscule warm up games before the first test. Nobody has played since before Christmas. Do the ECB need to start preparing properly and stop under estimating teams, just because we won in Sri Lanka last time out?
RE: England's tour of the West Indies 2019 - Maddix - 29-01-2019
At least we've got a stand in if the wicket keeper gets injured during a game
Too many 'Jack of all trades, master of none' IMO
Not that I'm a Luddite, but what happened to five batsmen, one batsman/bowler, a wicket keeper and four bowlers
We do appear to be stuffing the squad with players who can do a bit of both without being very good at either 
How many Stokes/Woakes/Currans/Alis/Rashids or Bairstows/Foakes/Buttlers do we actually need in the same team ? Especially when our 'specialist' batsmen invariably leave us 39 for 3 I dread to think how shit we will be when Anderson and Broad finally run out of steam
RE: England's tour of the West Indies 2019 - themaclad - 30-01-2019
Jennings and Rashid out Denly plays
RE: England's tour of the West Indies 2019 - Whitapers - 30-01-2019
Third reply to this post, I was hoping Holder would strike form. Man, did he do just that or what...
(29-01-2019, 23:16)Maddix Wrote: At least we've got a stand in if the wicket keeper gets injured during a game
Too many 'Jack of all trades, master of none' IMO
Not that I'm a Luddite, but what happened to five batsmen, one batsman/bowler, a wicket keeper and four bowlers
I dread to think how shit we will be when Anderson and Broad finally run out of steam
That's what has become of English test team post CWC 15. Used to play ODIs like tests (figuratively) and it's the other way around hence all the all rounders in the test side.