Twenty20 World Cup 2012

[PaulWinch again]

Bairstow is killing us here, he's got a lot to make up.

[PaulWinch again]

You need to move your fucking feet Bairstow.

[PaulWinch again]

Can we retire Bairstow here?

[PaulWinch again]

Thank fuck he's out.

[PaulWinch again]

Bowling rubbish, batting rubbish, fielding poor.

[spangley1812]

lol..........good warning from Gayle

[PaulWinch again]

If Morgan had come in instead of Bairstow we could have stood a chance.

[spangley1812]

Agreed Paul...........to have any hope we need an over where we get 20 from it

[PaulWinch again]

Bairstow has absolutely killed us in this game, that and an awful start and our bowling.

[The Left Side]

what happened, after I left (doc's appment) we started batting... were we ever in with a shout?

[PaulWinch again]

We would have been had Morgan come in before Bairstow. He killed our innings by barely scoring at a run every two balls, he flat out has no idea how to play spin and needs some serious coaching. Worryingly Broad said we bowled well, Finn and him did but the rest were awful. Well now it's essentially a knock out tournament, and if we keep getting appalling starts we're gone.

[spangley1812]

We would have been had Morgan come in before Bairstow. He killed our innings by barely scoring at a run every two balls, he flat out has no idea how to play spin and needs some serious coaching. Worryingly Broad said we bowled well, Finn and him did but the rest were awful. Well now it's essentially a knock out tournament, and if we keep getting appalling starts we're gone.

Paul sums it up very well but I would add we have to swop Briggs for the useless Patel and I would swop Bresnan for Dernbach

[The Left Side]

Thanks guys, onwards and upwards

[paul_e]

Bairstow is a clasic example of why we need to get our players into the IPL and the big bash - we have lots of people who do a good job on english style pitches but have so little experience outside that they are a liability.  For all his nonsense this is exactly why I wanted KP to win in the IPL battle, as a country we're a soft touch on the sub-continent and will only improve by playing there.

The major issue is we don't have the same advantage at home because most decent foreigners have played at least some time in county cricket in England, usually fairly recently before they tour here.

We schedule far too many games currently and need to start working out how to get the centrally contracted players some time with their county sides and in other tournaments.

[PaulWinch again]

It seems to me that we are the only team that is more a less completely incompetent against spin, Australia, NZ and South Africa can cope. They don't play in spinning conditions, why are we so poor? It can't just be the IPL.