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Post by joe on May 19, 2016 13:22:10 GMT
5 down at 2:00pm. Pitch definately got a green tinge. 4 edges and a chip to mid on. England with the familiar rabbit-in-headlights look about them!
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2016 13:25:33 GMT
England batting like they've never played at Headingley before...four wickets to balls pitched-up outside the off-stump enticing the drive...then Stokes smashing three fours and chipping one.
Watching on Sky but I was empted to switch to TMS to hear what Boycott is saying. Then I realised that I can guess exactly what he's chuntering about so decided there's not much point!
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Post by coverpoint on May 21, 2016 16:36:55 GMT
Herath at number 8 is a joke, he is a number 10 at best! Sri Lanka need to drop one of the opening bowlers and bring in a batsman to come in at 7.
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Post by fraudster on May 21, 2016 16:53:22 GMT
Herath at number 8 is a joke, he is a number 10 at best! Sri Lanka need to drop one of the opening bowlers and bring in a batsman to come in at 7. Their only hope is sunshine. Anderson and Broad in these conditions, no chance mate - and that's probably anybody let alone a load of Sri Lankans who have never played here. England typically lethal at home. A really good looking side, or at least it will be when Compton is dumped. Vince three, Jonny (who was exceptional again) at five and Buttler at seven? |
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Post by coverpoint on May 22, 2016 8:04:57 GMT
Herath at number 8 is a joke, he is a number 10 at best! Sri Lanka need to drop one of the opening bowlers and bring in a batsman to come in at 7. Their only hope is sunshine. Anderson and Broad in these conditions, no chance mate - and that's probably anybody let alone a load of Sri Lankans who have never played here. England typically lethal at home. A really good looking side, or at least it will be when Compton is dumped. Vince three, Jonny (who was exceptional again) at five and Buttler at seven? If Stokes is injured this will complicate thing. They should play Ball but will concerns about the tail mean them going with Plunkett? |
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Post by flashblade on May 22, 2016 9:19:52 GMT
Their only hope is sunshine. Anderson and Broad in these conditions, no chance mate - and that's probably anybody let alone a load of Sri Lankans who have never played here. England typically lethal at home. A really good looking side, or at least it will be when Compton is dumped. Vince three, Jonny (who was exceptional again) at five and Buttler at seven? If Stokes is injured this will complicate thing. They should play Ball but will concerns about the tail mean them going with Plunkett? I suspect Plunkett will play - need someone who can bat. |
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Post by coverpoint on May 22, 2016 11:36:40 GMT
Hales, Bairstow and Anderson were superb but without them there wasn't much difference between the teams.
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Post by hhsussex on May 23, 2016 6:53:29 GMT
If Stokes is injured this will complicate thing. They should play Ball but will concerns about the tail mean them going with Plunkett? I suspect Plunkett will play - need someone who can bat. Probably Woakes. He is younger, and in form with bat and ball. Clearly he isn't an international class bowler but that shouldn't hamper him in this series. |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2016 7:24:09 GMT
I suspect Plunkett will play - need someone who can bat. Probably Woakes. He is younger, and in form with bat and ball. Clearly he isn't an international class bowler but that shouldn't hamper him in this series. I'm sure it will be Woakes, as they will look to replace like for like with an all-rounder so as not to upset the 'balance'. I'd personally go for Ball. SL are struggling so it's a good opportunity to see what he can do and give him a taste of Test cricket. As for 'balance', Bairstow and Moeen can move up one to six and seven, then you've got the four seamers. It's not even as though Woakes would bat at six, anyway - they wouldn't be daft enough to put him above JB and MA, so he would bat at eight, surely? |
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Post by hhsussex on May 23, 2016 11:27:09 GMT
Probably Woakes. He is younger, and in form with bat and ball. Clearly he isn't an international class bowler but that shouldn't hamper him in this series. I'm sure it will be Woakes, as they will look to replace like for like with an all-rounder so as not to upset the 'balance'. I'd personally go for Ball. SL are struggling so it's a good opportunity to see what he can do and give him a taste of Test cricket. As for 'balance', Bairstow and Moeen can move up one to six and seven, then you've got the four seamers. It's not even as though Woakes would bat at six, anyway - they wouldn't be daft enough to put him above JB and MA, so he would bat at eight, surely? Woakes confirmed, with Ball still in the squad. I doubt they will play him, though I agree with borderman it would be a good chance to have a look at him - everything there is to know about Woakes at international level is already known, and though there are efforts to talk up his pace, he remains "more Pringe than Botham" |
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Post by fraudster on May 23, 2016 18:43:53 GMT
Probably Woakes. He is younger, and in form with bat and ball. Clearly he isn't an international class bowler but that shouldn't hamper him in this series. I'm sure it will be Woakes, as they will look to replace like for like with an all-rounder so as not to upset the 'balance'. I'd personally go for Ball. SL are struggling so it's a good opportunity to see what he can do and give him a taste of Test cricket. As for 'balance', Bairstow and Moeen can move up one to six and seven, then you've got the four seamers. It's not even as though Woakes would bat at six, anyway - they wouldn't be daft enough to put him above JB and MA, so he would bat at eight, surely? Bloody hell, with Stokes, Ali and Bairstow in the same team it will take more than one of them missing to upset the balance. With Stokes being seemingly the biggest miss of the three, it harms us minimally such is our strength at the moment, in my opinion. As you say, move them up and you still have Ali at seven. Woakes would bat after JB and MA surely, indeed, but hopefully not at all. That's no slant on him exactly but he is what he is and we know it. I hope we play Ball too. |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2016 20:48:23 GMT
Clearly he isn't an international class bowler but that shouldn't hamper him in this series. 9-36 against Durham isn't an international game, admittedly, even though anything north of Middlesboro seems like a foreign country. But it does suggest that we might all be wrong and Woakes may have it in him to be more than the new Derek Pringle! |
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Post by hhsussex on May 23, 2016 21:29:40 GMT
Clearly he isn't an international class bowler but that shouldn't hamper him in this series. 9-36 against Durham isn't an international game, admittedly, even though anything north of Middlesboro seems like a foreign country. But it does suggest that we might all be wrong and Woakes may have it in him to be more than the new Derek Pringle! Figures can be very illusory. Woakes bowled the best figures by a Warwickshire bowler since 1955, but whose achievement did he surpass, that has not been beaten in all that time by some great bowlers? Not Hollies, or Tom Cartwright or Lance Gibbs, or Willis or Sean Pollock, but Jack Bannister. I think you had it right the first time. |
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Post by fraudster on May 30, 2016 17:18:12 GMT
Hopefully this post won't get lost among all the others on this popular thread and people will hear my wisdom. Kinda feel under pressure to write something great now. Oh well, here goes: We won.
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Post by coverpoint on Jun 1, 2016 16:25:51 GMT
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