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Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:14 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
So far we have the following party.

Bairstow
Buttler
Moeen
Rashid
Rayner
Ball
Broad
Anderson
Woakes
Wood

So we can add seven batters to the squad now.

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:12 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
Collecting these names made me think how wide open this is. There are few convincing picks and so many dubious long shots. Sibley, Alsop Burns, Godleman, Browne, Brown, Clark, Clarke... There are a lot of opener possibles, but few middle order.

The forgotten men, Vince, Hales and Duckett.

Ian Bell?

Compo?

KP....?

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:00 am
by alfie
It is quite impossible to make any meaningful choice at the moment. Only the obvious three can be selected with any confidence...right now you could pick the other four by throwing darts at the list !

I hope the next few matches allow one or two players to make a serious claim...

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:07 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
The poll does demonstrate how ineffectually anyone other than the three are making their case.

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 5:14 pm
by andy
IMO Hameed still has time, and im desperate to see him score runs soon, because he has the technique to suceed, need him to stay fit and knuckle down ASAP!

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:24 pm
by The Professor
Very interesting that Hales never had a look in in this poll and now I think he is very likely to be in the squad.

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:57 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
Yes he was a long way down the queue of opening bats, but might sneak in the middle order. I still see him as an outsider though.

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:13 am
by Arthur Crabtree
My knee's been jerking overnight and I've left out Westley and Jennings for Stoneman and Livingstone.

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:18 am
by Arthur Crabtree
Cook
Haseeb
Robson
Westley
Northeast/Jennings
Root
Stokes
Bairstow
Buttler
Moeen
Rashid
Rayner
Footitt/R.Jones
Broad
Anderson
Woakes
Wood

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:17 am
by The Professor
Footit???? Really!

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:25 am
by DiligentDefence
I'm not any clearer in my mind now than I was when the poll was set up.

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:54 pm
by alfie
I've added Malan. Reckon twenty in this innings added to the two sixties show at least he has enough grit to compensate for perhaps some shortfall in class.
And it's hard to see three other bats going past him before they have to select/punt on a team...

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 8:38 am
by Arthur Crabtree
Going to wind this up as the squad is announced this week. We haven't picked the collection that will go, but it's probably just as good.

Cook
Haseeb
Robson
Westley
Root
Malan
Stokes
Bairstow
Foakes
Moeen
Rashid
Rayner/T.Curran
Woakes
Wood
Broad
Anderson
Footitt

TRJ was picked but is injured. Still a query over the third spinner or sixth seamer or even if either is necessary and just sixteen can be named.

Stoneman will obviously go, but I don't think we've omitted any other definites. Hales, Ball and Finn have their advocates and Leach has had another ok season. And I've still got a hunch for Plunkett, especially now TRJ is out. The only player we've picked who obviously won't go is Footitt. Probably Rashid too.

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:39 am
by alfie
Can't see Hameed going now either.

Re: Ashes selection: Batters.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:56 am
by Arthur Crabtree
Must be a bad fracture if it's ruling him out (and is it certain TRJ is out? Brisbane is two months away). If because of his season's form, fair enough.

If TRJ is fit, put him in for Footitt, who then replaces Curran. If Haseeb is out, in comes Northeast.