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Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:40 am**

Wow can't believe that

On the slow mo it looked like it pitched well outside leg

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:40 am**

Ballance has to go for good. He's not improved.

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:42 am**

Got a snorter first dig by memory, so I'd give him a marginal pass. Did seem he didn't need to prove his form long enough for such a ordinary FC record. Not seen enough to judge the technique

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:42 am**

dan08 wrote:Ballance has to go for good. He's not improved.

He hasn't even attempted to change his game

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:43 am**

so for the third test it appears we are going to drop Ballance and Jennings and bring in another batsman to replace Dawson :hide

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:44 am**

Cook and root have got to survive the rest of this spell from morkel and philander

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:45 am**

Bye Gary.... :hi

Enjoy summers in Scarborough for the future

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:46 am**

Philander doing the damage again....
:salute

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:56 am**

The stats suggest root should bat 4 or 5 definitely not 3

Averages 45 at 3
56 at 4
73 at 5

All from a similar amount of matches

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:59 am**

England team looks in disarray before the ashes likely to have 2 bad years in a row.

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:01 pm**

i'm not really a big believer in position by position stats

is there really any difference to how Root will do between coming in at 4-1 in the 6th over or 28-2 in the 12th over like he has today ?

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:05 pm**

rich1uk wrote:i'm not really a big believer in position by position stats

is there really any difference to how Root will do between coming in at 4-1 in the 6th over or 28-2 in the 12th over like he has today ?

Root clearly feels so as he's moved himself back to 4 as soon as becoming captain

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:05 pm**

bhaveshgor wrote:England team looks in disarray before the ashes likely to have 2 bad years in a row.

The Aussies might not even have a team

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:10 pm**

True England might have a quiet winter.

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:10 pm**

backfootpunch wrote:
rich1uk wrote:i'm not really a big believer in position by position stats

is there really any difference to how Root will do between coming in at 4-1 in the 6th over or 28-2 in the 12th over like he has today ?

Root clearly feels so as he's moved himself back to 4 as soon as becoming captain

he maybe does

i still dont see what actual difference it makes when he is regularly facing the same bowlers, in the same conditions, on the same pitches when he bats at 4 as he does when he bats at 3

not like we have had alot of success protecting him and him coming in after the new ball has been seen off by the top 3

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