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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5070 on: March 28, 2021, 05:58:15 PM »
Shame we couldn’t quite do it. But that’s a massive innings for Curran.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5071 on: April 16, 2021, 04:38:25 PM »
Stokes ruled out of New Zealand Test series due to injury

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5072 on: April 19, 2021, 11:08:17 PM »
Moeen is hitting some really fine form in the IPL.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5073 on: April 19, 2021, 11:37:36 PM »
Moeen is hitting some really fine form in the IPL.
Not a great shock, seems CSK are giving him some consistency batting at 3 and using his bowling as required...England would have picked him, batted him in 3/4 different places and dropped him by now.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5074 on: April 20, 2021, 11:05:09 PM »
Change to the selection structure and Ed Smith has gone.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5075 on: April 21, 2021, 07:01:48 AM »
Apparently he upset a lot of senior players because he wanted to be too involved in team selection where he should have had no involvement. He should have stopped with squad selection which was his remit. The winter tours were particularly strange with Woakes, Bairstow and Ali being shunted halfway across the globe and hardly playing, in Woakes case he didn’t play at all.

The coach should have ultimate responsibility for selection and this aligns cricket with other sports. Whether a player with a technical flaw in his batting will seek advice from the head coach knowing that he decides whether to pick him or not?

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5076 on: April 24, 2021, 10:42:06 PM »
Good to see Hameed in the runs. I think there’s still a player there, and a potentially very good one at that.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5077 on: April 24, 2021, 10:53:53 PM »
Agree but hope he gets out early tomorrow lol

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5078 on: April 24, 2021, 11:50:58 PM »
He has got bags of talent, what this really shows is how poorly managed he was by England (and he's not alone in it over the last 5-6 years), the county game is littered with players given a handful of games and then discarded.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5079 on: April 25, 2021, 01:19:41 AM »
He was out of form for a long time at Lancs though, wasn't he?

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5080 on: April 25, 2021, 07:13:52 AM »
I understand that his father thought that he knew better than the Lancashire coaches so he was getting conflicting advice and his game suffered.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5081 on: April 26, 2021, 12:16:38 AM »
Doubling up with a second century. Great work.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5082 on: April 26, 2021, 12:22:03 AM »
I saw a picture earlier and thought it was a different bloke. Besides the hair and beard, he's really filled out.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5083 on: April 26, 2021, 01:08:50 AM »
Thanks, VFL. I'd never heard that argument.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #5084 on: April 26, 2021, 02:37:57 PM »
I understand that his father thought that he knew better than the Lancashire coaches so he was getting conflicting advice and his game suffered.

It’s interesting that because it’s taken a bit of time but he appears to be returning to a good level at Notts. I wonder if there was something in the coaching at Lancs.

 


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