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Post by Balladeer on Jul 14, 2017 16:59:27 GMT
OPENER FILTH KLAXON
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Post by Balladeer on Jul 17, 2017 10:45:59 GMT
That's enough of Ballance I reckon. I know it's Vernon Philander with the new ball, but if you're an England number 3 you need to be able to weather that sort of spell. Ballance can't. Punt him down the order or exchange him for Stoneman/Burns/Westley.
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Post by Humair on Jul 17, 2017 12:22:46 GMT
Not sure about Jennings either.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Jul 17, 2017 12:55:56 GMT
I know that this England team has a fair few Yorkies in, but that's no reason to bat like fucking Yorkshire too. Either put Ballance @ 5 or send him back to us, it's doing no one any favours sticking him in at 3 for England. This SA team really aren't much to talk about with the ball, after Philander and Morkel they are bang ordinary with the ball. This test series really should have been a comfortable one, it's looking like an iffy one right now, and with Rabada back in for Olivier, they'll improve for the next match.
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Post by Balladeer on Jul 17, 2017 14:04:24 GMT
Well that was tripe.
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Post by soulcircus on Jul 18, 2017 7:14:50 GMT
I agree on Ballance, got to either stick him at 5 or drop him. Maybe push Jennings down to three and open with Stoneman? Whichever way all this chopping and changing with the Ashes not too far away doesn't bode well.
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Post by Balladeer on Jul 18, 2017 7:29:12 GMT
That is, incidentally, exactly what Agnew has suggested. With Moe at 8.
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Post by Humair on Jul 18, 2017 10:10:01 GMT
My team for the next test:
Stoneman, Cook, Root, Bairstow, Ballance/Westley, Stokes, Moeen Ali, Foakes(k), Woakes, Broad and Anderson.
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Post by Balladeer on Jul 18, 2017 10:50:34 GMT
You just want the StokesWoakesFoakes triumvirate, don't you?
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Post by Humair on Jul 18, 2017 14:33:27 GMT
Ballance out of the next test.
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Post by Balladeer on Jul 18, 2017 15:01:01 GMT
Probably not a bad thing. So the question becomes, I suppose, Stoneman or someone else? Westley?
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Post by lawrence on Jul 18, 2017 16:12:36 GMT
Both and drop Jennings as well?
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Post by Humair on Jul 20, 2017 11:44:47 GMT
Westley and Malan added to the squad, unfortunate for Stoneman to miss out when in form. Not sure how Dawson keeps his place in the squad.
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Post by Balladeer on Jul 20, 2017 11:51:03 GMT
Not many better obviously better options to be honest (#justiceforRayner). Wonder if we might see both Westley and Malan (who can give it a (decidedly part-time) tweak) over him. Still no Woakes, guessing he hasn't recovered.
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Post by Mattzo on Jul 20, 2017 12:08:13 GMT
Woakes isn't expected to be fully fit till the West Indies series.
I like Westley at 3. I'd also play TRJ over Wood so I'd keep Dawson for the moment.
Cook, Jennings, Westley, Root, Bairstow, Stokes, Ali, Dawson, TRJ, Broad, Anderson.
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