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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3975 on: July 14, 2020, 09:27:58 PM »
See again I’m not anti-Crawley at all, and I’m hoping he’s a long term option, but his record (acknowledging a small sample size) is no better than Denly’s. Denly has made good and important scores.

As above Crawley has shown consistent improvement. Denly has shown he can get starts but has done a shocking job of converting this 10-30 starts into even 50s let alone match defining scores. Given the respective ages I see no reason to keep Denly in.

That's my view as well. I guess we'll see, but on a practical level, how many players are actually in 'the bubble'? Say we got 5 cases of food poisoning (unlikely) would we have the players to replace them?

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3976 on: July 14, 2020, 10:40:35 PM »
Yeah I think if you look at scores alone Denly doesn’t look great, but it’s the crease occupation he’s done well at. I think he’s done alright in his role.

I agree that Denly has done a decent job at three, but seems to be the one who the knives are out for at the moment.  He probably just hasn't got those big couple of scores that would have kept the pressure off him a bit.

Saying all that, I fully expect him to be dropped at Old Trafford with Root coming back in at four and Crawley moving up to three.  As I said, I think some of the criticism of Denly has been harsh, but I don't think he could have too many complaints if he gets dropped. 

I expect Broad will come back in for Wood and the spotlight will then shift to Buttler.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3977 on: July 15, 2020, 09:32:50 AM »
See again I’m not anti-Crawley at all, and I’m hoping he’s a long term option, but his record (acknowledging a small sample size) is no better than Denly’s. Denly has made good and important scores.

As above Crawley has shown consistent improvement. Denly has shown he can get starts but has done a shocking job of converting this 10-30 starts into even 50s let alone match defining scores. Given the respective ages I see no reason to keep Denly in.

That's my view as well. I guess we'll see, but on a practical level, how many players are actually in 'the bubble'? Say we got 5 cases of food poisoning (unlikely) would we have the players to replace them?

I think that the bubble squad was around 30. As far as I'm aware, they're all still there. There was talk of Lawrence possibly playing in the 1st test.

Woakes and Curran were both on 12th man duty

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3978 on: July 15, 2020, 12:50:08 PM »
My old friend Steve 'Pedro' James is currently number one in the cricket book best-sellers on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Morgans-Men-Englands-Cricket-Humiliation/dp/1911630938/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=morgan%27s+men&qid=1594813674&sr=8-2


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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3979 on: July 15, 2020, 01:25:51 PM »
The new England physio for the ODI series against Ireland, Ben Davies, is a huge Villa fan. I know cos he’s my mate’s son and a former Villa academy physio. And an all round decent fella as well.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3980 on: July 15, 2020, 02:39:58 PM »
Denly dropped

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3981 on: July 15, 2020, 02:49:49 PM »
It's a shame for him but it's not an outrageous decision. He could stick around but you can't have your Test number 3 not scoring runs.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3982 on: July 15, 2020, 06:14:09 PM »
Anderson and Wood rested.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3983 on: July 15, 2020, 06:53:34 PM »
Looks like Broad and then Woakes or Curran as the replacements. I'm ok with that, I didn't think Wood or Jimmy would play all 3 anyway, for different reasons they're both injury risks that aren't worth taking given the options we have.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3984 on: July 15, 2020, 06:57:01 PM »
Looks like Broad and then Woakes or Curran as the replacements. I'm ok with that, I didn't think Wood or Jimmy would play all 3 anyway, for different reasons they're both injury risks that aren't worth taking given the options we have.
Ollie Robinson was mentioned.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3985 on: July 15, 2020, 07:00:21 PM »
Looks like Broad and then Woakes or Curran as the replacements. I'm ok with that, I didn't think Wood or Jimmy would play all 3 anyway, for different reasons they're both injury risks that aren't worth taking given the options we have.
Ollie Robinson was mentioned.

He's in the 13 but I'd be surprised if he leapfrogs the other 3 given they need game time.  In a normal season he may have got the game though.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3986 on: July 15, 2020, 10:29:30 PM »
I tried to find out how many players are still in ‘the bubble’, but forgot to factor in the ODI squad.

Steve’s as confused as the rest of us :)




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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3987 on: July 16, 2020, 08:24:00 AM »
Archer dropped for going non-bio

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3988 on: July 16, 2020, 10:09:20 AM »
That's made things more difficult for us, the twonk.  No out and out pace now, at a ground apparently helpful to the quicks.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #3989 on: July 16, 2020, 10:11:09 AM »
That’s a real kick in the balls.

 


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