bhaveshgor wrote:Making_Splinters wrote:bhaveshgor wrote:Aidan11 wrote:We've got to stop this becoming 5-0 before we've even gone there.
The question is How?
pick another spinner, drop ballance and drop Finn as well and pick an extra batsman just in case someone fails.
they really should have picked leach now but guessing selectors are embarrassed of leach doing well.
plus the crucial part bat better and hope the ball does all sort and ali/rashid/stokes get 20 wicket to win the game and india choke with the bat or the more likely aspect of a cyclone hitting Vizag.
Throwing a young spinner like Leach under the wheels of the Indian juggernaut is a sure fire way of ruining any future he had at the top level.
doesn't have to be that way if you have faith in the player or actually back him to do well.
look at cook and root.
really baffles me why people always look at the negatives and not at the positives.
if leach is talented he would do well irrespective of his age.
Either way leach should be in the touring party so they can actually see how he bowls in the nets or in the middle to the English player might turn out he bowls better than rashid/ansari.
You said it best, look at Cook. He has no idea how to handle new bowlers or instil any confidence in them. My think on this is slightly bias after the damage England did to Kerrigan, but I don't think the best way to bring a player into Test cricket is by throwing them against the hardest test they will face as an international player. Unfortunately, England have become spectacularly bad at planning long term over the last few years.
Lyth was not given a perfect opportunity to get his feet under the desk opening in the West Indies instead having to front up to New Zealand and Australia in England, which is hard. Hales wasn't given the opportunity to open in the UAE instead had to deal with South Africa away as his first assignment. At no point over the summer knowing we had two tours of the sub continent coming up did we have a look at our other spin options.
Every player has to start somewhere, but starting against India as a spinner borders on nihilism.