| 2nd Test today 09:51 - Aug 13 with 3368 views | IpswichKnight |
Morning
Lovely day here on the Surrey/ Hampshire border hopefully the sun is shinning down the M3 in Southampton.
England will make 1 change for sure with Crawley coming in for Stokes and possibly Curran for Bess other than that I don't think they will change anything else. |  | | |  |
| 2nd Test today on 09:55 - Aug 13 with 2361 views | MaySixth |
Patchy rain potentially arriving about 11:12am
Storms later this afternoon
Crawley in at 3
Decision between Wood or Archer
Baffling decision to continue with Bess instead of Leach
Looking at weather I've put a fiver on the draw at 7/4 [Post edited 13 Aug 2020 10:00]
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| 2nd Test today on 09:57 - Aug 13 with 2340 views | gainsboroughblue |
| 2nd Test today on 09:55 - Aug 13 by MaySixth |
Patchy rain potentially arriving about 11:12am
Storms later this afternoon
Crawley in at 3
Decision between Wood or Archer
Baffling decision to continue with Bess instead of Leach
Looking at weather I've put a fiver on the draw at 7/4 [Post edited 13 Aug 2020 10:00]
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Rain?
You watch Manchester get blazing sunshine today. |  |
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| 2nd Test today on 10:00 - Aug 13 with 2326 views | Herbivore |
| 2nd Test today on 09:57 - Aug 13 by gainsboroughblue |
Rain?
You watch Manchester get blazing sunshine today. |
Quite likely. The South is where the showers are likely to be today. Bloody typical. |  |
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| 2nd Test today on 10:01 - Aug 13 with 2320 views | MaySixth |
Storms are obviously hit and miss but they are moving up from Dieppe area on a north westerly | |
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| 2nd Test today on 10:38 - Aug 13 with 2281 views | Herbivore |
Curran for Archer is an interesting shout. Means our attack is quite one paced, albeit Curran offers something slightly different being a lefty and with a more skiddy action. | |
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| 2nd Test today on 10:46 - Aug 13 with 2269 views | Ftnfwest |
| 2nd Test today on 10:38 - Aug 13 by Herbivore |
Curran for Archer is an interesting shout. Means our attack is quite one paced, albeit Curran offers something slightly different being a lefty and with a more skiddy action. |
Agree with resting Archer but would have liked to see Wood get a game. They're the two we'll need in Australia in tandem. Having said that i like Curran as well and he's probably in because we're still a batsman down really. |  | | |
| 2nd Test today on 10:48 - Aug 13 with 2261 views | Ftnfwest |
| 2nd Test today on 09:55 - Aug 13 by MaySixth |
Patchy rain potentially arriving about 11:12am
Storms later this afternoon
Crawley in at 3
Decision between Wood or Archer
Baffling decision to continue with Bess instead of Leach
Looking at weather I've put a fiver on the draw at 7/4 [Post edited 13 Aug 2020 10:00]
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agree would have liked to have seen leach but they seem to be packing the lower order with reasonable batsmen to make up for being a batsman down at the top. | | | |
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| 2nd Test today on 10:56 - Aug 13 with 2242 views | SWGF |
| 2nd Test today on 10:46 - Aug 13 by Ftnfwest |
Agree with resting Archer but would have liked to see Wood get a game. They're the two we'll need in Australia in tandem. Having said that i like Curran as well and he's probably in because we're still a batsman down really. |
Can only assume Wood has some sort of niggle.
Haven't *yet* seen anything in Bess to convince me. Appreciate he's very young for a spinner but he's not offering much more than Root could in that respect. |  |
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| 2nd Test today on 10:58 - Aug 13 with 2236 views | Ftnfwest |
| 2nd Test today on 10:56 - Aug 13 by SWGF |
Can only assume Wood has some sort of niggle.
Haven't *yet* seen anything in Bess to convince me. Appreciate he's very young for a spinner but he's not offering much more than Root could in that respect. |
Agree, i think he could come good in time but i'd like to see us use Leach while his best years are still in him tbh | | | |
| 2nd Test today on 11:03 - Aug 13 with 2222 views | IpswichKnight |
I think they lost confidence in Leach when he got outbowled in NZ. I'm guessing but the next spinner they will look at will probably be Virdi of Surrey. | | | |
| 2nd Test today on 11:09 - Aug 13 with 2207 views | MaySixth |
Great call on Curran mate | |
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| 2nd Test today on 11:10 - Aug 13 with 2209 views | Chrisd |
| 2nd Test today on 10:46 - Aug 13 by Ftnfwest |
Agree with resting Archer but would have liked to see Wood get a game. They're the two we'll need in Australia in tandem. Having said that i like Curran as well and he's probably in because we're still a batsman down really. |
Good management to rest and rotate the bowlers, but I’m still not overly convinced that Archer is the real deal or just hype? The jury is still out for me. | |
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| 2nd Test today on 11:10 - Aug 13 with 2202 views | MaySixth |
| 2nd Test today on 10:48 - Aug 13 by Ftnfwest |
agree would have liked to have seen leach but they seem to be packing the lower order with reasonable batsmen to make up for being a batsman down at the top. |
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| 2nd Test today on 11:13 - Aug 13 with 2196 views | Herbivore |
| 2nd Test today on 11:10 - Aug 13 by Chrisd |
Good management to rest and rotate the bowlers, but I’m still not overly convinced that Archer is the real deal or just hype? The jury is still out for me. |
His record so far for a bowler just starting his test career is very good. I don't think he can consistently bowl at 90mph plus, especially when we're bowling him for long spells, but he makes stuff happen and doesn't rely on raw pace. He's a very good bowler imo.
Jimmy has started very nicely this morning. That's one of the most plumb LBWs I've ever seen. | |
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| 2nd Test today on 11:16 - Aug 13 with 2192 views | Steve_M |
| 2nd Test today on 11:10 - Aug 13 by Chrisd |
Good management to rest and rotate the bowlers, but I’m still not overly convinced that Archer is the real deal or just hype? The jury is still out for me. |
I think expectation is making people judge Archer very harshly. I read this yesterday, it's good.
https://wisden.com/analysis/cricviz-how-should-england-use-jofra-archer
Should be two down, slips not quite right there. |  |
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| 2nd Test today on 11:28 - Aug 13 with 2165 views | Ftnfwest |
| 2nd Test today on 11:10 - Aug 13 by Chrisd |
Good management to rest and rotate the bowlers, but I’m still not overly convinced that Archer is the real deal or just hype? The jury is still out for me. |
back to the good old days of dropping straightforward chances off Broad! | | | |
| 2nd Test today on 11:29 - Aug 13 with 2163 views | Herbivore |
That's an excellent article. The scrutiny and questioning of Jofra is quite ridiculous at times. | |
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| 2nd Test today on 11:37 - Aug 13 with 2138 views | Chrisd |
| 2nd Test today on 11:13 - Aug 13 by Herbivore |
His record so far for a bowler just starting his test career is very good. I don't think he can consistently bowl at 90mph plus, especially when we're bowling him for long spells, but he makes stuff happen and doesn't rely on raw pace. He's a very good bowler imo.
Jimmy has started very nicely this morning. That's one of the most plumb LBWs I've ever seen. |
Root over uses him. He needs to bowl him in short spells, but to give us that variety he needs to keep his pace up in the high 80s/ low 90s. He’s certainly a talented guy, but if he’s bowling mid 80s he’s no different from Broad, Anderson or Woakes.
Top of middle stump, plumb as you like! [Post edited 13 Aug 2020 11:41]
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| 2nd Test today on 11:59 - Aug 13 with 2104 views | Steve_M |
FFS, second drop of the morning. | |
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| 2nd Test today on 12:02 - Aug 13 with 2096 views | Herbivore |
| 2nd Test today on 11:59 - Aug 13 by Steve_M |
FFS, second drop of the morning. |
Our fielding has been pretty ropey all summer. | |
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| 2nd Test today on 12:05 - Aug 13 with 2093 views | SWGF |
| 2nd Test today on 11:59 - Aug 13 by Steve_M |
FFS, second drop of the morning. |
Nice, soft hands from Burns there...like two breeze blocks trying to catch that! | |
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| 2nd Test today on 12:13 - Aug 13 with 2078 views | Steve_M |
| 2nd Test today on 12:05 - Aug 13 by SWGF |
Nice, soft hands from Burns there...like two breeze blocks trying to catch that! |
I'm just glad I wasn't on a work call when that happened. | |
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| 2nd Test today on 12:23 - Aug 13 with 2057 views | gainsboroughblue |
| 2nd Test today on 12:13 - Aug 13 by Steve_M |
I'm just glad I wasn't on a work call when that happened. |
It must really be a grind being an England bowler. I haven't seen the drops as I'm listening to the radio but Burns' one sounded regulation. | |
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| 2nd Test today on 12:26 - Aug 13 with 2049 views | Herbivore |
| 2nd Test today on 12:23 - Aug 13 by gainsboroughblue |
It must really be a grind being an England bowler. I haven't seen the drops as I'm listening to the radio but Burns' one sounded regulation. |
It was, you can't be dropping those in the slips. | |
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