wpdavid
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And that's the problem, isn't it. We're dealing with an unsatisfactory situation where we have to choose one of several least bad options. "Mr X" just about somes up our current lack of viable openers in the whiteball game, so there's no reason to believe that any of the possibles would do better than Mustard or Prior. Brown & Loye are too old, Benning et al did nothing of note last year, and beyond them? I was even wondering if Strauss had really been so bad when Cook was having his run of zeros.
Funny how things change. 5 years ago, we had two very good openers, a middle order that was good on paper but usually folded whenever under any pressure, and no lower order. Today our openers are crap, all but one of our middle order aren't that highly rated (and the one exception's been out of form for most of this year) and a bunch of kids in the lower order - and we're being more competitive. Can't get my head around it, tbh.
Funny how things change. 5 years ago, we had two very good openers, a middle order that was good on paper but usually folded whenever under any pressure, and no lower order. Today our openers are crap, all but one of our middle order aren't that highly rated (and the one exception's been out of form for most of this year) and a bunch of kids in the lower order - and we're being more competitive. Can't get my head around it, tbh.