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Post by mrsdoyle on Jun 29, 2015 19:56:44 GMT
The game against Kent seems to have confirmed some of the things we felt about this side: that they have a powerful bowling attack and are single-minded in their pursuit of victory, that they are committed to playing seriously. Obviously Kent, the weakest county now in the championship were rolled over by such a team, but it must have been great for the crowds there to see the contrasting defiant innings of Key in the first dig, and then Bell-Drummond in another mode entirely. Sad though to see the figures of Riley, so cruelly exposed, and to hear talk of how his action has been "amended" by his England coaches. Overall, the most impressive thing is that there seems to be a resolve by Lehmann for his team to play "proper" warm-up matches and to contest them whilst getting his bowlers in trim and his batsmen attuned to the different pitches. Next stop is Chelmsford on Wednesday for another 4-day match against Essex. I doubt very much if Cook will be allowed to play a week ahead of the First Test - though I think that tactically it would be a very good idea for him to do so and get an idea of what his opposition looks like close-up -but I hiope that all of the rest of the Essex first-choices play. You mean like the proper warm up games afforded England down under. |
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Post by fraudster on Jun 29, 2015 21:07:02 GMT
I think Cook should play, laugh if off if you fail and stamp your authority if you don't. Besides, when was his last innings? Form is game-time. He's surely penciled in for something? On that note, why ain't Bell been playing for Warks in this game? When was his last game, the 2nd test v NZ I spose, and Cook's. They will probably be hideously rusty until the 3rd test. Unlike Cook, Bell hasn't exactly spent ages in the middle this summer.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 12:42:41 GMT
Peter Nevill makes an unanswerable case for selection by conceding 31 byes.
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Post by slowmediumfilth on Jul 4, 2015 14:50:28 GMT
Grauniad is reporting that Ryan Harris has retired from playing & that his place in the squad has been taken by Pay Cummins.
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Post by slowmediumfilth on Jul 4, 2015 14:52:00 GMT
Make that Pat Cummins.
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 4, 2015 15:25:27 GMT
I'm not surprised to hear that Harris is going home. Very risky to have brought him here on the strength of past deeds, with dodgy knees and no cricket for 6 months. |
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Post by mrsdoyle on Jul 4, 2015 18:46:47 GMT
I'm not surprised to hear that Harris is going home. Very risky to have brought him here on the strength of past deeds, with dodgy knees and no cricket for 6 months. That sounds like the England of 18 months ago. |
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Post by howardh on Jul 4, 2015 20:54:09 GMT
Won't make the blind bit of difference!
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Post by fraudster on Jul 5, 2015 20:16:00 GMT
Won't make the blind bit of difference! Damn straight Howard - apart from it's 'a' not 'the'. Why are none of our players playing cricket? The Aussies are playing, counties are playing. The only players that aren't playing are the players that need to play the most - along with the Aussies and the counties but you get the point no doubt. |
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Post by howardh on Jul 5, 2015 21:49:10 GMT
Yup.
Thought I'd play around with the idiom....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 7:44:48 GMT
Sad news about Ryan Harris but Pat Cummins is a quality bowler. I saw him in the South Africa v Australia series in 2011 and thought he was the best of an impressive pace attack.
The Harris selection was always a risk. Looking at the age profile of the two teams and how success is cyclical as great teams have to be rebuilt (especially when they all hit a certain age together), I wonder if in five years time the ratings will be reversed and England will be rolling over Australia 5-0? I read somewhere that the Aussies have half a dozen players over 33 and England have just one (Bell)...
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jul 8, 2015 10:34:14 GMT
WE'RE OFF!
England 7-1 after 3 overs. Lythe perishes for 6.
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 8, 2015 11:05:57 GMT
I missed Lyth's dismissal but since then it sounds as if we have made a positive start. The expected selection of Moeen over Rashbid and no place so far for Finn, and plenty of competition for other places. Picking up a point borderman made earlier, there is a big weight of years on the Australian side, and not always through experience of tests. Fine players that Voges and Rogers are, they will all be aching and weary long before the end of this series and so will Clarke, Haddin, Johnston and Watson. Meanwhile England have a lot of young talent that belatedly got its chance in the New Zealand marches and is now clamouring to be heard.
No predictions, but this could be much closer than seemed possibly in the stupid days of the Caribbean cock-up, aka the last stand of Moores, Whitaker and the malign tendency in the ECB.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2015 11:50:38 GMT
Bell's last ten Test innings - 143 followed by 11, 1, 0, 0, 1, 29, 12, 1, 1.
TIme to send him back to Warwickshire alongside Trott?
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Post by fraudster on Jul 8, 2015 16:17:34 GMT
Yes, and bring in Jonny. Battering them somewhat at the moment, Root is superlative. The future really is around him, Stokes and Buttler, to name three.
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