Quote from: PaulWinch again on September 04, 2018, 07:04:01 AMQuote from: paul_e on September 03, 2018, 10:49:35 PMGood on you chef, takes a good man to admit that it's over before getting kicked. We can remember the brilliance now without feeling guilty about wanting you to be dropped. Yep and he truly is a legend. His record, especially for an opener, is incredible.Not to take anything away from his achievements at all, but I do think he was somewhat fortunate to play in an era when there weren't too many world class opening bowlers operating on the international scene. Especially when you think of the 90's when the likes of Ambrose, Walsh, McGrath, Lee, Donald, Pollock, Akhtar, Wasim and Waqar were around.
Quote from: paul_e on September 03, 2018, 10:49:35 PMGood on you chef, takes a good man to admit that it's over before getting kicked. We can remember the brilliance now without feeling guilty about wanting you to be dropped. Yep and he truly is a legend. His record, especially for an opener, is incredible.
Good on you chef, takes a good man to admit that it's over before getting kicked. We can remember the brilliance now without feeling guilty about wanting you to be dropped.
Quote from: tomd2103 on September 04, 2018, 08:49:20 AMQuote from: PaulWinch again on September 04, 2018, 07:04:01 AMQuote from: paul_e on September 03, 2018, 10:49:35 PMGood on you chef, takes a good man to admit that it's over before getting kicked. We can remember the brilliance now without feeling guilty about wanting you to be dropped. Yep and he truly is a legend. His record, especially for an opener, is incredible.Not to take anything away from his achievements at all, but I do think he was somewhat fortunate to play in an era when there weren't too many world class opening bowlers operating on the international scene. Especially when you think of the 90's when the likes of Ambrose, Walsh, McGrath, Lee, Donald, Pollock, Akhtar, Wasim and Waqar were around. Against that, I'd say that there aren't many great batsmen whose best tours came away from home in as different (and sharply juxtaposing) conditions as Cook's 2010-11 Ashes + tour of India combo. He was an absolute monument those tours.
Wouldn’t say so. I remember lots of talk about being dropped or losing the captaincy.
Better start today, I always think that if the openers get through the first 15-20 overs then they've done their main job, even if they don't score a huge amount of runs. It means the players at 3 and 4 are coming in with a softer ball and, usually, with the opening bowlers out of the attack.I don't think it's enough to save Jennings yet but at least he's not failed completely.
Jennings went playing a silly shot, that feels like something that could've been said about him far too many times in his England career and it's why I'm not convinced he's worth persevering with.I hope Moeen works out at 3, he's far too good a batsman to have him at 8 or 9 and it would solve a lot of problems and gives the side a much better balance.
Quote from: paul_e on September 07, 2018, 12:55:39 PMJennings went playing a silly shot, that feels like something that could've been said about him far too many times in his England career and it's why I'm not convinced he's worth persevering with.I hope Moeen works out at 3, he's far too good a batsman to have him at 8 or 9 and it would solve a lot of problems and gives the side a much better balance.Agree about Jennings Paul, but the two things that might go in his favour for the winter are that his struggles have mainly been against the moving ball in this country and that there aren't really two viable opening options at the moment. I think Ali at three would solve some problems, but I like him at 8 where he can take the game away from teams.
Frankly, I'm just pleased Cook hasn't failed this innings. Don't know if he'll get any sort of proper score, but this looks ok.