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The Lions is a nice day out!

Some stunning performances posted by the England batters in this series. Duckett may have done himself some good. Maybe England should rotate in one or two players in the Pakistan ODIs. Though perhaps the batter who would be most vulnerable on recent performance is Morgan, who certainly won't be stood down.

england lions are Surprising me as I thought England lions didn't pick the 2nd best squad available and generally picked players they liked the look of in the next 2-3 years and to cause the least disruption to the counties.
Thought it would be a close series since pakistan/sri lanka picked a really strong squad so too thrash both teams says a lot in the talent England got in the white game.

Think England lions needs to organise more first class games in england and concentrate more on that format since that probably the format where england are struggling to find cricketers at the moment.

Ben Duckett certainly showing what he capable of doing.

I think we will start to see an increasing gap over the next few years as to where talent is coming from, one day batsmen division 2 and test batsmen from division 1 with the up coming LVCC changes.

On course for an easy victory. Not that it was ever in doubt.

Making_Splinters wrote:I think we will start to see an increasing gap over the next few years as to where talent is coming from, one day batsmen division 2 and test batsmen from division 1 with the up coming LVCC changes.

It feels like it could go that way and would be an interesting development if a bit detrimental to the domestic game.

As well as BD, Mark Wood stood out with the ball, probably the two to do themselves the most good. Lions games are very useful. Shame they haven't been used to identify Test players, particularly a spinner and a middle order bat.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:As well as BD, Mark Wood stood out with the ball, probably the two to do themselves the most good. Lions games are very useful. Shame they haven't been used to identify Test players, particularly a spinner and a middle order bat.

TBH that is not ecb fault they would like more lions games especially fc games but it isn't working out with the counties and the schedule they probably having to scrap the lions setup and just have overseas nets as well now.

quite sad since England started the a tour craze again and now they reducing it when more nations are doing it. Supposedly not being in the aus, India and SA under 19 and A team arrangement was a killer blow to attracting fixtures alongside not being able to guarantee fixtures during the English summer.

A tours are very useful in picking players.

hopefully it wont be long before Mark Wood is back in the test side