England 2012 Cricket Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Broad is costing us here, take him off Cook.

[jcsutv]

Broad blowing cold again.

[PaulWinch again]

Broad needs to be dropped he hasn't contributed anything since the UAE.

[PaulWinch again]

Getting edgy here we need to knock them over quickly.

[PaulWinch again]

We're letting it slip here.

[PaulWinch again]

We fucking this up, not good enough Jimmy.

[PaulWinch again]

Broad comes on and gets hammered to the boundary. He has needed dropping for a while.

[PaulWinch again]

We've completely fucked this up here.

[lovejoy]

The games gone already.

[PaulWinch again]

I don't know about gone, but we're going to have to knock them over quickly tomorrow and bat very well. Couple of things, today showed that not playing Monty in the first Test was madness. Broad unless he does something truly remarkable in the next few days of the game needs to be dropped. His performance levels have consistently been dropping and he's too comfortable with his place.

[paul_e]

I don't know about gone, but we're going to have to knock them over quickly tomorrow and bat very well. Couple of things, today showed that not playing Monty in the first Test was madness. Broad unless he does something truly remarkable in the next few days of the game needs to be dropped. His performance levels have consistently been dropping and he's too comfortable with his place.

Hopefully for Onions or Finn rather than Bresnan though.  I see the value of Bresnan when Broad and Jimmy are taking wickets as he adds a lot of runs in the lower order (much like Patel could) but if any of our other bowlers are out of form he's a passenger we can't carry.

[PaulWinch again]

I don't know about gone, but we're going to have to knock them over quickly tomorrow and bat very well. Couple of things, today showed that not playing Monty in the first Test was madness. Broad unless he does something truly remarkable in the next few days of the game needs to be dropped. His performance levels have consistently been dropping and he's too comfortable with his place.

Hopefully for Onions or Finn rather than Bresnan though.  I see the value of Bresnan when Broad and Jimmy are taking wickets as he adds a lot of runs in the lower order (much like Patel could) but if any of our other bowlers are out of form he's a passenger we can't carry.

Yeah agreed on Bresnan not being the replacement, although he hasn't actually got runs for a long time now. Finn is a must for me if fit, Broad has been utterly hopeless. Also Patel's bowling offered nothing again, so I'd be tempted to have Morgan in.

[Richard]

Broad is a show pony, one good game in ten which always keeps him in for the other 9 when he is average to poor.

Think we probably do need to blood some youth here and esp in New Z in prep for the double Ashes header.

[Villan For Life]

Broad is a show pony, one good game in ten which always keeps him in for the other 9 when he is average to poor.

Think we probably do need to blood some youth here and esp in New Z in prep for the double Ashes header.

Broad reminds me of a county trundler who can bat a bit. The thing that he lacks is consistency and he is probably the closest player that we have to an all rounder hence his continued selection.

I'd drop him - his overseas record is atrocious. However it does seem harder to get out of this England team than get into it.

[PaulWinch again]

Decent start overall, but Trott needs be dropped. He's been poor for a while.