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Post by Srihari on Aug 30, 2016 20:03:37 GMT
If your choices went Woakes/Ansari/Broad then you'd have the batting line up of dreams. Jimmy > Broad at the moment. Wood greater than both of them
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Post by Mattzo on Sept 11, 2016 10:11:29 GMT
Reading The Times and it suggests the following test squad for this winter:
A Cook (capt), H Hameed, J Root, G Ballance, B Stokes, J Bairstow, J Buttler, M Ali, A Rashid, L Dawson, G Batty, C Woakes, S Broad, J Anderson, M Wood, S Finn
No surprises in the omissions, bar perhaps Hales, with Vince and Ball both missing out. Cook/Hameed/Root/Ballance as your specialist bats, Bairstow keeping with Jos in reserve, and then a wide array of bowling options half of whom are allrounders.
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Post by Humair on Sept 11, 2016 10:34:40 GMT
I think picking Batty would still be a massive surprise in my opinion.
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Post by nemouk on Sept 11, 2016 10:49:29 GMT
Hales is opting out of Bangladesh and being opted out of India as a result it seems. Four spinners, four specialist batsmen. Funny old world isn't it!
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Post by Balladeer on Sept 11, 2016 14:46:08 GMT
That's a dangerous game for Hales to play, as he hasn't nailed down his Test place at all. Re. that team, WHY DAWSON WHYYYYYYY this is a terrible terrible idea!
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Post by nemouk on Sept 11, 2016 20:17:54 GMT
Dawson is surely in under the Chris Jordan rule (i.e. if you're going to take a guy on tour who will only ever appear as a sub fielder, make them a brilliant fielder)
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Post by Mattzo on Sept 11, 2016 21:04:24 GMT
Morgan and Hales confirmed as missing Bangladesh. Buttler ODI captain and squads announced Friday.
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Post by Balladeer on Sept 12, 2016 8:30:04 GMT
Hameed gets a chance, and... well who would you pick as your sub-opener? Gubbins? DBD? Duckett? They'll pick Roy of course.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2016 22:36:55 GMT
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Post by Srihari on Sept 16, 2016 6:25:32 GMT
Got the batty prediction spot on. Woohoo.
Also FYI. it is no longer off-season. Test summer starts next week.
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Post by Balladeer on Sept 16, 2016 7:51:42 GMT
As soon as we have concrete knowledge of the squad, we should probably move discussion of it to an England/Bangladesh thread.
Ben Duckett for Tests though? Far from the worst decision they could have made, but over Jennings? Strikes a bit of the lately coined #Bayligerence to me.
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