Champions Trophy, Group 'A', June 1-10

[backfootpunch]

Stupid not to pick Bairstow. He's clearly the man in form.

How do we get him in Though?

Open with root but then we don't have a number 3 really

Suppose Moeen could open

[rich1uk]

Stupid not to pick Bairstow. He's clearly the man in form.

How do we get him in Though?

Open with root but then we don't have a number 3 really

Suppose Moeen could open

bairstow was opening for yorkshire in the one day cup this year

[budgetmeansbudget]

Stupid not to pick Bairstow. He's clearly the man in form.

something that has kinda been ratting around in my head the last few weeks is we keep hearing talk about how great it is to have competition for places

its a weird competition when the guy thats performing worst keeps winning it

But I expect he is looking good in the nets!

[budgetmeansbudget]

Anybody can open the innings in a modern day one dayer for me.

[rich1uk]

Anybody can open the innings in a modern day one dayer for me.

agreed

our top 7 could almost bat in any order without a huge issue

[dan08]

Stupid not to pick Bairstow. He's clearly the man in form.

How do we get him in Though?

Open with root but then we don't have a number 3 really

Suppose Moeen could open

bairstow was opening for yorkshire in the one day cup this year

Also opened for England in a warm up in West Indies.

[rich1uk]

if we lose today and the australia game then effectively becomes a quarter final then we have to make the change

if we win today and have already qualified they might give him a last chance

[backfootpunch]

Stupid not to pick Bairstow. He's clearly the man in form.

How do we get him in Though?

Open with root but then we don't have a number 3 really

Suppose Moeen could open

bairstow was opening for yorkshire in the one day cup this year

Get him in then

Roy is a walking wicket and putting pressure on hales atm

[backfootpunch]

Root since the world cup

Average of 69.5 strike rate of 93

Very impressive

[rich1uk]

imagine having to sit beside Strauss and Clarke if you were at the game

[rich1uk]

50 for hales

going along nicely here, maybe just need to start thinking about putting the foot down soon

[rich1uk]

jinxed him

he just completely misjudged the length there and was playing back to a full delivery

another pretty horrible looking dismissal

[rich1uk]

morgan gets out to what was a borderline wide, could hardly reach it but managed to nick it to the keeper

[rich1uk]

as they are saying on commentary, a wicket comes from us not being able to rotate the strike very well, root gets starved of the strike as a result and plays a poor shot when he does get to the right end

[dan08]

Williamson to get banned for 2 games like Tharanga?

Still an hour away from completing this innings.