| New cricket tour, same old question 07:55 - Feb 16 with 2508 views | SaleAway |
How on God's earth is Zak Crawley still in an England shirt?
Can't bat, and just dropped an absolute sitter at 2nd slip.
Whilst I have a lot of time for Stokes and McCullum giving people freedom to play, I've still yet to see anything from Crawley that makes me think he's good enough for this level. |  |
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| New cricket tour, same old question on 23:25 - Mar 1 with 318 views | gainsboroughblue |
| New cricket tour, same old question on 23:13 - Mar 1 by BlueForYou |
Bairstow & Duckett as an opening pair. If they get their eye in, that could be carnage. McCullum will be eyeing that for sure. As for Crawley, he just doesn’t seem to be learning anything, he still makes the same poor mistakes, playing across the ball, no feet moving, etc. He needs a perfect storm scenario of flat pitch, great weather, the right bowlers, to get any kind of score. Johnny can’t be any worse with a much higher ceiling.
Big worry for us going forward is the captains fitness. His knee issue does not look good, & we need him to be bowling fit for the Ashes. If he were to break down, I wonder who would captain the side? We should have plenty of bowling back up, but replacing a player like Stokes as the all rounder batting at six is impossible. |
Harry Brook has a bowling average of 7 so he could easily slip into that Stokes role.
On a serious note though, you are right. Stokes seems to be pulling up with injury a lot while batting let alone bowling. I think we'd have got home the other morning had he not been crocked. He practically couldn't move. |  |
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| New cricket tour, same old question on 01:05 - Mar 2 with 272 views | bournemouthblue |
| New cricket tour, same old question on 23:13 - Mar 1 by BlueForYou |
Bairstow & Duckett as an opening pair. If they get their eye in, that could be carnage. McCullum will be eyeing that for sure. As for Crawley, he just doesn’t seem to be learning anything, he still makes the same poor mistakes, playing across the ball, no feet moving, etc. He needs a perfect storm scenario of flat pitch, great weather, the right bowlers, to get any kind of score. Johnny can’t be any worse with a much higher ceiling.
Big worry for us going forward is the captains fitness. His knee issue does not look good, & we need him to be bowling fit for the Ashes. If he were to break down, I wonder who would captain the side? We should have plenty of bowling back up, but replacing a player like Stokes as the all rounder batting at six is impossible. |
Who's actually the vice-captain at the moment, I genuinely have no idea? |  |
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| New cricket tour, same old question on 07:39 - Mar 2 with 220 views | mikeybloo88 |
Steve James in the Times amongst other journos suggest Stokes to open and I like the logic...Bairstow excelled in the middle order with Bazball last summer whereas Stokes is yet to produce big runs under Baz batting at six. Now, if you want an opener to be attacking and hopefully get more runs than Crawley but at least consistently get you 30, then Stokes is technically good against fast bowling and could move up to do that...leaves Bairstow to come in at six and bat probably with one of his Yorkshire colleagues and inball likelihood get more than Stokes has been getting there. Might all depend on Stokes knee...I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Sam Curran but again, lots will depend on bowler injuries and fitness too. |  | | |
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