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Offline OzVilla

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2745 on: August 23, 2019, 11:49:12 AM »
Roy, Burns, Denly should be no where near any England team and on recent form nor should Root. The fact that that’s the current top 4 is a bit embarrassing.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2746 on: August 23, 2019, 11:53:53 AM »
Root’s form disappeared half way through the World Cup and he hasn’t got it back yet.

It a lot longer than that. Root is averaging just 33 in his last 31 test innings.

And another shit shot from a player totally out of his depth. This time it’s Burns.
« Last Edit: August 23, 2019, 11:58:16 AM by OzVilla »

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2747 on: August 23, 2019, 11:55:15 AM »
Roy, Burns, Denly should be no where near any England team and on recent form nor should Root. The fact that that’s the current top 4 is a bit embarrassing.
Burns is England's top run scorer this series and is averaging nearly 60.  Only Stokes has a higher average.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2748 on: August 23, 2019, 11:55:45 AM »
Roy, Burns, Denly should be no where near any England team and on recent form nor should Root. The fact that that’s the current top 4 is a bit embarrassing.
Burns is England's top run scorer this series and is averaging nearly 60.  Only Stokes has a higher average.
But that was a bit shit.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2749 on: August 23, 2019, 11:55:54 AM »
Well the ambition has gone from batting all day (lol) to somehow getting in range of their score.


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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2750 on: August 23, 2019, 11:56:56 AM »
All we had to do was survive the first hour and then go at them.

Five minutes short of the first hour, twenty for three. 🤨

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2751 on: August 23, 2019, 11:57:27 AM »
Roy, Burns, Denly should be no where near any England team and on recent form nor should Root. The fact that that’s the current top 4 is a bit embarrassing.
Burns is England's top run scorer this series and is averaging nearly 60.  Only Stokes has a higher average.

He’s shit. Poor technique, doesn’t like the short stuff and good bowlers will get him every time.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2752 on: August 23, 2019, 11:59:56 AM »
England doing what it seems only England can do....

once again need Stokes, Bairstow, Woakes, Buttler to dig us out of the fucking big hole we seem to dig for ourselves.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2753 on: August 23, 2019, 12:02:26 PM »
How can we make wholesale changes to our batting lineup when the replacements are probably just as bad? Yes we could try Pope, Sibley and Crawley but we can’t go into a test with such an inexperienced line up.

The fact remains that White ball cricket means that our batsmen no longer have the strong technique required to build a patient innings at test level.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2754 on: August 23, 2019, 12:04:02 PM »
As bad as England have been this morning you have to give credit to Hazlewood and Cummins for a fantastic bowling display.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2755 on: August 23, 2019, 12:06:22 PM »
Having a coach who doesn't give a single fuck about Test Cricket probably doesn't help either.


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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2756 on: August 23, 2019, 12:07:44 PM »
FFS, never mind losing the captaincy, that twat Root wants fucking off altogether.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2757 on: August 23, 2019, 12:10:26 PM »
Having a coach who doesn't give a single fuck about Test Cricket probably doesn't help either.



That was the instructions from above though wasn’t it? We need a more balanced approach, test cricket is still the ultimate form of the game.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2758 on: August 23, 2019, 12:16:41 PM »
Nobody on this site would have got out to that delivery, FFS.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2759 on: August 23, 2019, 12:17:08 PM »
Jeez

 


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