4th Test (Old Trafford, Manchester) - 23rd to 27th of July

[mackembhoy]

England usually name their team two days before the Test. Wonder why they haven't so far. Is one of the bowlers injured?

Sensible if we wait until the day with them unsure on whether Archer will play back to back. Also Atkinson coming back from injury. Carse isn't 100% either.

But apparently Sky reckon Dawson in for Bashir and Atkinson in for Woakes

 

[RightArmMystery]

Well the team's out. 1 enforced change - Dawson in for Bashir.

 

[FBU]

Team for the 3rd Test was announced the day before.

@willis_macp

England have named their XI for the 4th Test. One change, Liam Dawson in for Shoaib Bashir Crawley, Duckett, Pope, Root, Brook, Stokes, Smith, Dawson, Woakes, Carse, Archer

 

[govinda indian fan]

Well the team's out. 1 enforced change - Dawson in for Bashir.

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No Atkinson??

 

[Molehill]

I see that England have played 102 Tests since Dawson's last cap, apparently only 6 players in Test History have gone through more......Gareth Batty with the record.

Name	Team	From	To	Span	Tests missed
Gareth Batty	England	5 Jun 2005	20 Oct 2016	11y 137d	142
Jaydev Unadkat	India	20 Dec 2010	22 Dec 2022	12y 2d	118
Martin Bicknell	England	9 Aug 1993	21 Aug 2003	10y 12d	114
Floyd Reifer	West Indies	18 Jan 1999	9 Jul 2009	10y 172d	109
Younis Ahmed	Pakistan	2 Nov 1969	21 Feb 1987	17y 111d	104
Derek Shackleton	England	7 Nov 1951	20 Jun 1963	11y 225d	103
Liam Dawson	England	17 Jul 2017	22 Jul 2025	8y 5d	102*

 

[Johan]

29 First Class Hundreds between that English tail, Crawley has the second lowest FC average there

 

[Thala_0710]

29 First Class Hundreds between that English tail, Crawley has the second lowest FC average there

Close to being true, but sadly Crawley has a higher FC average than Archer, Carse and Woakes

 

[Johan]

Close to being true, but sadly Crawley has a higher FC average than Archer, Carse and Woakes

In Non Test FC, All the same, Woakes is the highest, Crawley/Archer/Carse around the same, Dawson is well higher

 

[Thala_0710]

In Non Test FC, All the same, Woakes is the highest, Crawley/Archer/Carse around the same, Dawson is well higher

Dawson has more runs in FC cricket than anyone in India's squad

 

[kevinw]

Good to see Sarfaraz has spent his exile losing some pounds.

 

[govinda indian fan]

Good to see Sarfaraz has spent his exile losing some pounds.

Hopefully he replaces nair vs windes at home

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

No Atkinson??

Mustn’t be deemed fit enough, he played a club game during the last Test, and he’s playing for Surrey’s second XI this week, surely he’ll be fit for the Oval

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Well the team's out. 1 enforced change - Dawson in for Bashir.

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Woakes still living on his reputation a bit by being listed as high as #9, he’s not done much with the bat for a long time whereas Carse hit a 50 in the last Test

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

BBC also reporting that Wood is no longer in contention for the Oval, maybe that might impact whether Archer plays or not

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Tongue to play the last two days of the Championship game this week too to get overs in the bank (hopefully!)

 

[Blenkinsop]

Lossing reddy is big blow esp when we are playing at seamer friendly old traffod

Luckily for you we're not playing at seamer friendly old trafford, wherever that is. We're playing at the one in Manchester which is a roady road that sometimes spins on the last day.

 

[shortpitched713]

Some of you all are posting India lineups without NK Reddy.

WTF?

 

[centurymaker]

Bumrah will play both the 4th and 5th test if situation demands it. Because there's hardly any cricket for him after this series. Only 4 more tests in the next 12 months. Plus no Asia Cup in September.

Bumrah-
upto 2 tests vs WI in Oct (can even be skipped)
upto 2 tests vs SA in Nov

T20 WC in Feb
IPL in Apr-May

Not much of a workload..

 

[centurymaker]

Some of you all are posting India lineups without NK Reddy.

WTF?

Ruled out of the series after injuring his knee

 

[centurymaker]

Likely XI

Jaiswal
Rahul
Nair
Gill
Pant
Jadeja
Sai/Jurel/Sundar
Kuldeep
Kamboj
Bumrah
Siraj

If we get a green top, they'll play Thakur instead of Kuldeep.