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  1. Johann

    ***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

    Bairstow has never shown he has the game to prosper as a genuine top 6 bat in test cricket - far too many gaps in his technique for me Buttler is a much better keeper and way more potential with the bat too. Agree that the issue we have is too many 7s and no genuine 6s in the squad. Stokes...
  2. Johann

    long term Australian XI

    Agar is a painfully average spinner. No idea why anyone would want to drop Lyon who has caused problems all series long and is generally pretty economical
  3. Johann

    Player Ratings thread

    Some bizarre comments on this thread already, most notably tedsheppard :laugh: Cook 6 - perfect game as captain and some great catches. Lyth 5 - Clearly struggled a bit but managed to get some runs in the second dig. Needs to be persevered with Ballance 6 - Important but awful looking 50. Not...
  4. Johann

    *Official* New Zealand in England 2015

    That's a very lucky decision Already don't fancy us chasing the total as it is
  5. Johann

    ***Official*** England in West Indies 2015

    Agree that should be doable but I'm not confident
  6. Johann

    ***Official*** England in West Indies 2015

    I fancy that anything over 150 will be a tough chase for this Windies lineup on here Remains to be seen if we can get up to that srt of score - need Buttler or Stokes to get some quick runs with Ballance hanging in at the other end
  7. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    You're absolutely right, I have no idea where I've remembered it as 3-1. :laugh:
  8. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    Well if those players were good in the lead up to that series, Sehwag, Tendulkar, Laxman were not the same players during it or after so perhaps the downward slide started in that series. Regardless, it doesn't have any bearing on the point that I'm making - India should absolutely be a lot...
  9. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    They probably were ****ter in 2011 but Dravid and Dhoni aside, all of those players were very much on the downward slide in that series and that England side were approaching the peak of their powers. And as I say, the series before that (with largely the same team), India romped to a 3-1 (I...
  10. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    It really wasn't all that long ago that India won a test series pretty convincingly in England. And when was the last time that England won a test series in India before we did it a couple of years ago? OK India's record away from home has never been amazing but the point still stands - with...
  11. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    How exactly are India going to turn this round? They've won one test where they played at their absolute best and England truly were at their absolute worst England will win and probably do it very comfortably.
  12. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    tbf there are positives and negatives for India to take out of the tour - in broad strokes, the bowling attack has performed well and Ishant has looked like he might yet be the man to lead the attack for years to come. But, the batting has largely been a major disappointment and has highlighted...
  13. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    All depends on the weather tomorrow I'd say but it is hard to see this Indian attack doing too much damage, even in favourable conditions against a batting lineup that has Stuart Broad at 10
  14. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    Come on Woakesy
  15. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    I told you it was the right decision to keep CJ in the team :ph34r:
  16. Johann

    Makhaya Ntini claims he was dumped unfairly out of the SA Test side

    Ntini was average at best in his last 12 months or so and was dropped because the team needed to move on from him. Really bizarre story
  17. Johann

    ***Official*** English Domestic Season 2014

    The point about Samit's fielding is a fair one - for all his immense natural talent, his mobility and fitness in the field is a relevant concern
  18. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    This is the sort of short-termism we really need to get away from though. It's pretty clear that he's been affected by being dropped and so I'm just a bit uncomfortable with doing it again. He shouldn't really have leap-frogged Woakes in the test team in the first place really - even when he...
  19. Johann

    ***Official*** India in England 2014

    If we hadn't dropped CJ the first time round, I'd agree but you can't drop a player after one test in a series, bring him back for one test and then drop him again. The selectors need to hold their nerve with him because we don't have great bowling stocks at the moment and we need to stop...
  20. Johann

    ***Official*** English Domestic Season 2014

    tbh I kind of took that to mean he's still not being considered for the next lot of ODI/T20 teams in that they still want to see how he gets on with the lions Hales has to be in the ODI team and Roy and Vince have to be at least in the squads Samit should be brought back too tbf

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