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    Match #42- Super Eights, West Indies vs England (N), Darren Sammy Cricket Stadium, Saint Lucia-- June 19th- Group 2

    Probably would not have changed the outcome of the game but that decision to bowl Romario Shepherd for the 16th over ahead of Motie has to be be about as bad and probably worse than our decision to bowl Wood for the 18th. Neither of these guys should be bowling in the last 5 overs of a live t20...
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    England team selection T20 World Cup 2024

    If they do feel like they need the extra batter, it'd make more sense to jam him in at 6/7 after Livingstone (which is where they've had him bat in ODIs a couple of times). Currently, him batting at 3 destabilizes the entire batting lineup.
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    England team selection T20 World Cup 2024

    Been wondering for this whole tournament why Jos and co don't feel confident enough to bat Bairstow at 3 and Brook at 4. Bairstow has a much better strike rate at 3 than at 4 and is generally a better top order player. Brook is supposed to be our generational talent and yet we squander that...
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    Alex Hales

    Don’t really understand what is so polarizing about this decision. The guy chose cash over a meaningless bilateral series. This is all on the ICC to create context around bilateral series that is rendered even more meaningless by the fact that there isn’t a t20 World Cup for another 1.5 years.
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    Group 1 (Afghanistan, Australia, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Ireland)

    Wood bowling this over is a gamble from England. Personally think Woakes/Stokes are better options.
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    Group 1 (Afghanistan, Australia, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Ireland)

    Malan potentially out also not a bad thing, can see him potentially chewing up balls against the SL spinners. On a separate note, a splendid set from Rashid, thought he mixed them up beautifully and read the batters well.
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    Group 1 (Afghanistan, Australia, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Ireland)

    Poor start from England, taking pace off is the name of the game and it’s taken them after the power play to figure that out. Wood not bowling might be a blessing in disguise
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    *Official* England in Pakistan (T20, September 2022)

    Anybody who can hit a six over deep extra cover is a seriously talented player in my mind. Definitely, this side is shaping up well from a batting perspective but we could do with more pace bowling options particularly at the death.
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    *Official* England in Pakistan (T20, September 2022)

    To be honest Malan is batting out of position and would be a much more effective player at the top with Buttler. At #3, he regularly kills any momentum built by the openers and it doesn’t help that he’s not a great starter against spin. That said, Hales is a more explosive player with a better...
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    *Official* South African tour of England and Ireland 2022

    Disappointing performances from SA in this series, not only is this comfortably the worst batting side that we've seen in England this summer, but also the worst one SA has sent to England since readmission. Something is wrong with any domestic system where Kyle Verreynne averages 50+. England's...
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    *Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands

    New Zealand have not played poorly but the overall leadership and strategy has been abysmal. Ajaz Patel and Michael Bracewell have been clearly misused this series, the selection has been poor (eg: Matt Henry being selected in this game and made to bowl to a Wagner-plan), and I honestly couldn't...
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    *Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands

    The bigger crime is not playing a front line spinner at all. As bad as Pope has been against spin, it's really a massive stretch to suggest that someone who has 27 wickets in 96 FC games is going to give him the jitters.
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    *Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands

    To be fair to Zak in this innings, he did get a quality delivery. That said, I do feel like we regularly fall into this trap of expecting players to be better than their domestic records when in truth, the Vaughans and Trescothicks are statistical odd ball cases. More often than not players end...
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    *Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands

    Who would you replace Pope with at 3? I don't think anyone is under any illusions that Pope is currently suited to bat at 3 (which to be honest is not shocking for someone who has always been a middle order batsman), but surely the goal of the experiment is to see whether with all of his talent...
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    *Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands

    Of his 8 test centuries, 5 have come with him holding the gloves in the same game. More importantly, 7 of them have come at a batting position of 6 or 7.
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    *Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands

    The more I think about it, the more I'm off the view that this is the right move for Joe Root (and by extension, England) I genuinely don't think that Root's playing style makes him suited to batting in the top 3 (not saying that he wouldn't score runs there) - he doesn't leave well and...
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    As would Jos Buttler. Not particularly shocking that someone with close to zero knowledge of county cricket would talk up players who have made a name on the international t20 circuit
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    What is the best way to judge ATGs with imbalanced careers?

    Interesting question. Would you have judged Ponting's career any differently had he chosen to retire at the end of the Ashes series in 2006/07? At that point, he would have played 100+ tests and averaged in the high 50s. In my opinion, we (as armchair experts) don't assign enough weight to...
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    For someone who generally struggles with deliveries on 4th stump line, Pope is an odd choice at 3. Nonetheless, I'd rather him in the side than Malan, Vince et al. Let's see what Baz can do with him, there is certainly a test cricketer somewhere in there
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    Brendon McCullum announced as England's test coach

    Seems like you are largely missing the point of the post which was addressing the fact that KP had not made any allegations against the other two referenced characters, not which of the 3 I'd like to have lunch with. Needless to say, good cricketers are invariably not easy characters to manage...

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