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Post by lenny on Apr 23, 2015 19:34:44 GMT 1
Root and Ballance doing the business yet again. Even if neither makes a ton, how consistent are these guys?
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Post by vanner on Apr 23, 2015 20:04:21 GMT 1
Yorkshire Yorkshire Yorkshire!
Root - 24 Matches averaging 53.47 Ballance - 10 Matches averaging 64.85
Incredible stats and if they keep that up KP will never be near this team.
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Post by vanner on Apr 23, 2015 21:51:49 GMT 1
Joe Root - take a bow.
What an innings that is on this crappy pitch. Strike rate of 80 is phenomenal. Shake Ballance and Ali were dismissed poorly as I fancied a 300 lead.
We need to keep batting aggressively and aim to be about 200 ahead by lunch tomorrow.
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Post by lenny on Apr 23, 2015 22:06:16 GMT 1
He just keeps doing it in tests. I'm hesitant to keep bigging up him and Ballance when there's a nagging voice in the back of my mind that it's been against poor attacks (although this Windies one isn't too bad - Roach's average is mid 20s, Taylor showed his ability in the first test and Gabriel and Bishoo both look reasonable) before the big tests this summer. Still, to be doing it time and time again suggests there really is something about them.
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Post by lenny on Apr 23, 2015 22:07:26 GMT 1
What is up with Mo's batting, though? He's had one good knock in 8 tests now, not convinced at all. Needs to keep bowling like he did last summer if he wants to stay in the side.
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Post by shrewinjapan on Apr 24, 2015 4:49:28 GMT 1
Root is going to bat for England for years and years, score bucketfuls of runs and break batting records
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 10:30:09 GMT 1
What is up with Mo's batting, though? He's had one good knock in 8 tests now, not convinced at all. Needs to keep bowling like he did last summer if he wants to stay in the side. That's why I don't understand why they didn't give Rashid a go for this test match to see if he has the ability to step up in the test arena.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 10:30:42 GMT 1
Root is going to bat for England for years and years, score bucketfuls of runs and break batting records and be the next captain
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Post by lenny on Apr 24, 2015 11:10:15 GMT 1
Root is going to bat for England for years and years, score bucketfuls of runs and break batting records and be the next captain Never a recipe for success with us!
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Post by atcham jack on Apr 24, 2015 11:48:55 GMT 1
I thought England made heavy weather of an exhausted Windies attack yesterday. shoulf have been at least 120 on. 59 pathetic.
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Post by vanner on Apr 24, 2015 13:58:20 GMT 1
I thought England made heavy weather of an exhausted Windies attack yesterday. shoulf have been at least 120 on. 59 pathetic. We're 74 ahead and scored quite quickly during the last 2 sessions on what is a tough pitch. If we keep playing aggressively we will be 200 ahead by lunch, If we're not bowled out before then which will move the game on.
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Post by lenny on Apr 24, 2015 16:00:49 GMT 1
Looks like we're doing our best to be all out ASAP! Farcical run out and farcical review by Broad. Heard that Root has scored over 1000 runs at an average of over 100 in his 10 and a half tests since being dropped for the last Ashes test. Talk about a response!
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Post by lenny on Apr 24, 2015 16:25:28 GMT 1
Oh Jimmy, what were you doing?! Three dreadful run-outs this innings. Root won't be thanking him later, but I guess there's a sort of irritating karma after he got Jordan out.
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Post by vanner on Apr 24, 2015 16:30:45 GMT 1
Good lead and we've now got 5 sessions and 20 minutes to win the game.
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Post by lenny on Apr 24, 2015 17:30:20 GMT 1
Since being dropped, Root's stats:
vs Sri Lanka: 200* and 15 31 and 13
vs India: 154* 66 and 13 3 and 56 77 149*
vs Windies 83 and 59 182*
8 and a half tests. 14 innings, 4 NO. Only one test in which he failed to pass 50 and now has done so 6 innings in succession and 7 tests in a row.
1102 runs at 110.2!
Filthy.
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Post by vanner on Apr 24, 2015 18:47:25 GMT 1
Bring back KP brigade can do one.
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Post by thesensationaljt on Apr 24, 2015 18:52:21 GMT 1
Bring back KP brigade can do one.
They'd be nuts to do that.
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Post by lenny on Apr 25, 2015 15:49:06 GMT 1
Jimmy giving us a chance of victory. Stuck on a train refreshing the live coverage pages of this and our game - so horrible!
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Post by vanner on Apr 25, 2015 18:47:01 GMT 1
What a performance!!
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2015 15:26:58 GMT 1
England unchanged for the final test match in Barbados.
Ben Stokes fit to play.
Conservative selection from England, I thought we might have seen Lyth given his debut.
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Post by Rusholme Ruffian on May 1, 2015 15:34:53 GMT 1
Trotts made another cracking start
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Post by bertymax on May 1, 2015 16:18:33 GMT 1
In theory, I cant understand why Trott is having so much trouble opening, he usually bats at no 3 after all so in theory(and Practice) has come to the crease as early as the second ball in the past. Sadly, although I think that while mentally he is in a better place after his issues in Australia, what little we have been able to see of his technique in his all too brief innings gives the impression he is just so out of form that he should go back to warwicks and bat and bat until he finds it again. The selectors will no doubt drop him down to no 3 at the expense of either Stokes or Moeen though.
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Post by Minormorris64 on May 1, 2015 16:28:29 GMT 1
3 Down OOPS
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Post by vanner on May 1, 2015 16:50:49 GMT 1
Time for Hales or Lyth to open. Trott is a great backup middle order batsmen to have available this summer.
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Post by highlandshrew on May 1, 2015 17:00:06 GMT 1
Time for Hales or Lyth to open. Trott is a great backup middle order batsmen to have available this summer. No he's not. He is mentally shot and the Aussies are the last team he should be put up against - home or away. It's time to move on and let Lyth open with Cook, with Ballance, Hales, Root and Ali to follow then a keeper (not convinced about Butler's keeping ability but he can bat) and four bowlers.
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Post by vanner on May 1, 2015 17:27:05 GMT 1
Time for Hales or Lyth to open. Trott is a great backup middle order batsmen to have available this summer. No he's not. He is mentally shot and the Aussies are the last team he should be put up against - home or away. It's time to move on and let Lyth open with Cook, with Ballance, Hales, Root and Ali to follow then a keeper (not convinced about Butler's keeping ability but he can bat) and four bowlers. He's got an issue with the short ball, that's not mentally shot. If he was mentally shot he wouldn't have averaged 40 in first class cricket and almost 70 in one day cricket. Plus he then went off with the lions and scored runs for fun. Totally agree with the second paragraph, bar your (presume mistaken) omission of a man with 107 tests and a batting average of 45! Taylor aside, I'm not convinced we have the batsmen to cover a few broken fingers which is a slight concern. However Hildreth's early season form is decent plus there's guys like Chopra and Vince who are very good players.
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Post by lenny on May 1, 2015 18:00:51 GMT 1
Hales shouldn't be brought in to open imo, scoring brilliantly this season and is explosive, but he's been doing it at 3. Lyth still deserves a chance first, though - Hales was good last season but Lyth was ridiculous. Still hopeful that the selectors will, century in the next innings aside, drop Trotty before the Ashes but I would expect them to persist with him against NZ.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2015 18:06:34 GMT 1
I'm sure that Adam Lyth will get his chance come the first test against New Zealand. Rather than be a spare part on this tour it would have been better for him (and England) if he was back home getting valuable batting time out in the middle for Yorkshire.
I feel that the England selectors have been far too conservative in their selection choices over these last 3 tests.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2015 18:11:36 GMT 1
Root the latest to go, England now 91 for 4....
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Post by lenny on May 1, 2015 18:20:48 GMT 1
I'm sure that Adam Lyth will get his chance come the first test against New Zealand. Rather than be a spare part on this tour it would have been better for him (and England) if he was back home getting valuable batting time out in the middle for Yorkshire. I feel that the England selectors have been far too conservative in their selection choices over these last 3 tests. Really hope so, he is an exciting player. I was of a similar mind regarding his selection, but all the pundits on sky have been saying that it would be better for him to be out here. Struggle to see how, personally, but I have much less disdain for cricket commentators/pundits than I do their football-describing counterparts.
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