captaincolly wrote:Stokes out for up to 6 weeks according to the Daily Mail and will be replaced by Woakes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricke ... paign=1490
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Hard to know why they would pick a big squad, and then choose from outside it. This is supposed to be a group of names which the ECB will moniter over the season. But it's happened before.
Division two gets a lot of crtiticism for its quality (a poor Test side is sure to get labelled 'Divison 2', at least by Boycott), and for a while now, many of the press have assumed that a player had to get into CC1 to make a claim for a Test spot. Which was a reason Taylor went to Notts. I remember someone at the ECB commenting after KP got the runs Graves suggested he needed to get back in the England side, that you'd think he'd have found a CC1 side...
It feels like a few batters are getting touted without taking that route. With no Lions games, don't players like Westley and B.Drummond have to move up a level with a view to playing for England?
Slipstream wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:Hard to know why they would pick a big squad, and then choose from outside it. This is supposed to be a group of names which the ECB will moniter over the season. But it's happened before.
Division two gets a lot of crtiticism for its quality (a poor Test side is sure to get labelled 'Divison 2', at least by Boycott), and for a while now, many of the press have assumed that a player had to get into CC1 to make a claim for a Test spot. Which was a reason Taylor went to Notts. I remember someone at the ECB commenting after KP got the runs Graves suggested he needed to get back in the England side, that you'd think he'd have found a CC1 side...
It feels like a few batters are getting touted without taking that route. With no Lions games, don't players like Westley and B.Drummond have to move up a level with a view to playing for England?
Westley
99 v Sri Lanka
144 v Starc, Hazlewood, Marsh, Siddle, Watson, Lyon
108 v Sri Lanka
Last year he played in Sri Lanka in the Premier Championship
Arthur Crabtree wrote:8-36 for Chris Woakes. Nice to see him in the wickets before the second Test.
sussexpob wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:8-36 for Chris Woakes. Nice to see him in the wickets before the second Test.
Would love to see him have an allrounder game to remember, so we dont have to see the waste of space he is replacing again.
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