sussexpob wrote:Jon Angew described Hameeds debut as an "I was there moment".....
Cue him scoring 100 runs in the next 6 innings and not playing the final test.
No holding back on this one is there.
Making_Splinters wrote:I genuinely feel sorry for Hameed, he didn't ask for this nonsense. He has played along in places, but what would you expect a teenager to do? As I've said in the past, I really worry about what will happen if he gets dropped. The press he's gotten will no doubt have caused some serious resentment around the county game from older players or players who've had better seasons and not been picked.
sussexpob wrote:Ill reserve judgement on his technique against spin until Ive seen him on a result wicket.
sussexpob wrote:Making_Splinters wrote:I genuinely feel sorry for Hameed, he didn't ask for this nonsense. He has played along in places, but what would you expect a teenager to do? As I've said in the past, I really worry about what will happen if he gets dropped. The press he's gotten will no doubt have caused some serious resentment around the county game from older players or players who've had better seasons and not been picked.
For me, its more the fact that there is a huge bubble of pressure and expectation for him to go on probably one of the hardest tours England can play away, and now he has to hit the ground running because the whole of the press are talking about him like Tendulkar. A 19 year old should be allowed to fail and not be hyped up so much.
I mean no disrespect to the lad, he might be a test match player with a bright future, but I worry for him what this pressure will do for him
bhaveshgor wrote:for me nick compton was the worse did really well in india scored 2 hundreds in NZ but then got dropped for batting slow in england so they can have root opening what the hell is that.
sussexpob wrote:bhaveshgor wrote:for me nick compton was the worse did really well in india scored 2 hundreds in NZ but then got dropped for batting slow in england so they can have root opening what the hell is that.
Robson was told to go get runs in the early season, he piled them run upon run, then they gave Ballance a real call after doing nothing
sussexpob wrote:bigfluffylemon wrote:I see the crisis talk has already started in the Australian press. Australia hasn't even lost this game yet
They would be hard pressed to lose this game, they werent even in it
bhaveshgor wrote:for me nick compton was the worse did really well in india scored 2 hundreds in NZ but then got dropped for batting slow in england so they can have root opening what the hell is that.
can't actually remember a bad test in his original run and he got dropped because of a dispute with a coach and them not liking him.
not really a surprise he failed an again with the crap he got in the first instance.
not sure I would like to play for england again if that happened to me.
bigfluffylemon wrote:bhaveshgor wrote:for me nick compton was the worse did really well in india scored 2 hundreds in NZ but then got dropped for batting slow in england so they can have root opening what the hell is that.
can't actually remember a bad test in his original run and he got dropped because of a dispute with a coach and them not liking him.
not really a surprise he failed an again with the crap he got in the first instance.
not sure I would like to play for england again if that happened to me.
Agree entirely. I was looking back at his record as an opener, and he did really well the first time round. I can't fathom why he was dumped for Root as an opener. Really odd.
I think best of luck to Hammed, but I think that for all England debutants. But the English press love to build people up and then knock them down. Still, I suppose it's page views that matter to them, not talking sense. 'New opener may or may not be any good, too early to tell' is not exactly a headline that will get a lot of interest.
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