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diteras wrote:No openers no top order players at all? no surprises.

There is absolutely no reason to play as a no 1,2,3, in the modern context unless yu are a player with enough about you to change your approach (avoid using the word technique here please)

I am sure no armchair experts appreciate the self management that is required to gradate in cricket- it is an unreal quality and that is why there are arguably only three players in the world capable of doing it to a high standard. (don't have to name them do I?) So everyone else relies upon repetition repetition etc etc until an approach to the game becomes a natural one- that's the thing about natural it's...........natural?? So then you cant change it unless you are one of the aforementioned big trio of demi- genius'

Either you pay cricketers at the sub prime level enough to make boring the boobies off everyone an attractive prospect, or you settle for the dross, I have, in equal measures, a high regard for Burns' achievements these last few years and an absolute mistrust of a methodology which will have the likes of Cummins ,Starc and any other world class bowler salivating. He is not the answer - unless the question is 'how not to.....''...Lets face it he gets the gig because he is the last man standing

In conclusion (if you get this far) pick the best XI test class players and ....I dunno..draw lots.? Sure, Moen ain't ideal at no 3 but he is about as good as we have, in the country, so we better hope he can just do a job, because there is, literally , no one else even approaching capable.

Quick q - how many folks had a go at Trott? .....HA I thought so - no pleasing you, is there?

-from the suggestion box...Go for the one who's the best fielder..........Lythe?

I haven't posted on a cricket board for five years........wow! the return of diteras aka?.....nah, life is already too damned short.


see ya

diteras wrote:
In conclusion (if you get this far) pick the best XI test class players and ....I dunno..draw lots.? Sure, Moen ain't ideal at no 3 but he is about as good as we have, in the country, so we better hope he can just do a job, because there is, literally , no one else even approaching capable.

Durhamfootman wrote:

diteras wrote:
In conclusion (if you get this far) pick the best XI test class players and ....I dunno..draw lots.? Sure, Moen ain't ideal at no 3 but he is about as good as we have, in the country, so we better hope he can just do a job, because there is, literally , no one else even approaching capable.

we could try playing cricket in the English summer, rather than half of it in the very early spring, followed by the rest of it just as the Aussie domestic season is about to start.

Little wonder most batsmen don't gain the experience required to give them a half decent chance of being successful at test level.... and this is particularly noticeable with top order batsmen.... something I think can be laid firmly at the door of the ECB

looking at the scores for the last round of county championship matches with several first innings totals of about 100, it's hard to see how any young batsman can lay claim to a place on a winter tour, let alone be successful on it. Says something when Keaton Jennings can have such a poor summer, and with no credit in the bank, yet be absolutely in the best position to be assured of an openers berth in SL

diteras wrote:
this is the last. Enjoy the winter

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Daily Mail had a story Broad isn't going to SL.

Slipstream wrote:

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Daily Mail had a story Broad isn't going to SL.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/201 ... -consider/

Also talk of Roy for the Test team. It would be funny if Roy was picked and Burns omitted.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Burns, Denly and Stone get first call ups for the Tests in SL. Leach is recalled. Only two openers in the squad.


Burns/Jennings/Root/Denly/Pope/Stokes
Moeen/Leach/Rashid
Buttler/Bairstow
Anderson/Broad/Woakes/Stone/Curran

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Denly's not an opener. Bit of a strange choice.