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LenGlover said:Poor old Zak. Another duck.
Despite the rhetoric coming from the England camp about him being a match winner, he still has yet to prove that to be the case. After all, how many match winning performances can anyone actually recall him making from his 32 games?
His overall average is 28.30 which is poor but then take out his three biggest innings, two against weak Pakistan attacks on roads of 289 (drawn) and 122 (one of 7 hundreds in the first innings of the match) plus the 121 against the West Indies (drawn) and this average drops to 19.71 with no less than 27 single digit scores from those 53 innings.
McCullum and Stokes will continue to back Crawley all the time we are winning Tests and providing he gets the odd big score. However, if that doesn't happen then there really will be even less justification than there is now for persevering with him.2 -
Sky sports commentators keep saying that's the case and the soft signal is only there in case DRS isn't working.Chizz said:
The IPL has done away with the soft signal, but there's no report from the ICC that they have changed the protocol on soft signals, and it's officially still in place in the World Test Championship.Addick Addict said:Appeal for caught down the leg side - Foakes off Robinson - soft signal is not out (but that has no relevance unless technology isn't working) and it is given out!
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Where does the suggestion that the soft signal is now only used if the technology isn't working come from? And, if that is the case - contrary to the ICC - why are the umpires still soft signalling?2 -
I was going to say this about the Parkinson selection, or not, yesterday but forgot. But I feel the same is true with Crawley.Addick Addict said:LenGlover said:Poor old Zak. Another duck.
Despite the rhetoric coming from the England camp about him being a match winner, he still has yet to prove that to be the case. After all, how many match winning performances can anyone actually recall him making from his 32 games?
His overall average is 28.30 which is poor but then take out his three biggest innings, two against weak Pakistan attacks on roads of 289 (drawn) and 122 (one of 7 hundreds in the first innings of the match) plus the 121 against the West Indies (drawn) and this average drops to 19.71 with no less than 27 single digit scores from those 53 innings.
McCullum and Stokes will continue to back Crawley all the time we are winning Tests and providing he gets the odd big score. However, if that doesn't happen then there really will be even less justification than there is now for persevering with him.
Crawley isn't in the team to score lots of runs or see off the new ball. He is in the team to score quickly. I think England's fastest ever 100 opening partnerships were the last test of the summer and the first innings in Pakistan. They aren't bothered about him scoring 100s if he scores quick 50s once every 2 or 3 tests.
He will probably end his test career with an average in the early 30s but with more "moments" than someone who averaged 10 more.
Parkinson isn't picked because they don't feel he can take enough wickets, rightly or wrongly. I think England would rather a bowler that 5for at 5 in 20 overs than someone that might take 3 for 100 off 50 overs.
England now, in all formats, will always pick a Stokes over a Woakes. I hope they carry on TBH.0 -
I don't think they're right.cantersaddick said:
Sky sports commentators keep saying that's the case and the soft signal is only there in case DRS isn't working.Chizz said:
The IPL has done away with the soft signal, but there's no report from the ICC that they have changed the protocol on soft signals, and it's officially still in place in the World Test Championship.Addick Addict said:Appeal for caught down the leg side - Foakes off Robinson - soft signal is not out (but that has no relevance unless technology isn't working) and it is given out!
117-3 at lunch
Where does the suggestion that the soft signal is now only used if the technology isn't working come from? And, if that is the case - contrary to the ICC - why are the umpires still soft signalling?0 -
Brook really didn't want to celebrate ehis fifty there!0
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"Excellent on-field decision from the umpire" there has to be the worst bit of commentary of 2022 lol0
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Yeah awful call0
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Well batted Harry Brook. Yet again.1
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A calamity run-out of the skipper would have fucked many previous England sides. In this one, you just laugh it off and keep doing what you do1
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That said, England seem determined to give Pakistan's negative line of attack a sniff of working! Dangerous game, but it is their way...0
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254-5 at tea and 50 behind
Brook 108* (141)
Foakes 42* (85)0 -
Brook's scores in this series:
153
87
9
108
108*
465 runs @ an average of 116.25 and strike rate of 94.51
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Brook LBW Nelson to go with the 87 he got earlier in the series. Needs to find a lucky charm. And quick too because I can't see him having much of a career with that sort of misfortune.
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Rehan Ahmed, by all accounts, bats as he bowls. With plenty of attacking instinct.0
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And so it proved!Addick Addict said:Rehan Ahmed, by all accounts, bats as he bowls. With plenty of attacking instinct.1 -
Pathetic immature batting.Addick Addict said:Rehan Ahmed, by all accounts, bats as he bowls. With plenty of attacking instinct.1 -
50 to Foakes. Excellent work
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If he keeps getting out for 87 and 111, I think he'll live with that! Better than having "0" as your unlucky number...Addick Addict said:Brook LBW Nelson to go with the 87 he got earlier in the series. Needs to find a lucky charm. And quick too because I can't see him having much of a career with that sort of misfortune.
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Ahmed will have been told to express himself. He got there but the execution was somewhat lacking and he totally lost his shape in playing the shot. But then he is 18. And he will learn to be a bit more composed when playing that shot but there is no way he would have done so without the approval of McCullum and Stokes because that is the way he bats.bolloxbolder said:
Pathetic immature batting.Addick Addict said:Rehan Ahmed, by all accounts, bats as he bowls. With plenty of attacking instinct.1 -
Wood has quite a few FC fifties. Weirdly I think the requirements of this new style of Test cricket will do wonders for his average. He can play as he likes. Play the Swann role0
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Pathetic and dare I say immature from Foakes0
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Wonder if Leach will be solid and sagely0
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50 lead is a great effort by the tail1
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Just flashed up the bowling scorecard. Almost literally a three-man attack. Will it be enough?0
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From 53-0 to 54-3 (all three wickets to Leach) to 142-3 off 48 overs for a lead of 92 runs, Have only just caught up with things but, presumably, there is a reason why Ahmed hasn't bowled today given that he only went for 2 runs off 2 overs yesterday? The seamers have bowled 23 overs without success after all.0
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No obvious reason why he hasn't. Stokes use of himself as a bowler is interesting. No overs in the previous match, none in the first innings, 8 on the reel today.Addick Addict said:From 53-0 to 54-3 (all three wickets to Leach) to 142-3 off 48 overs for a lead of 92 runs, Have only just caught up with things but, presumably, there is a reason why Ahmed hasn't bowled today given that he only went for 2 runs off 2 overs yesterday? The seamers have bowled 23 overs without success after all.0 -
Stokes must be on CL because, within minutes, he's on!Cafc43v3r said:
No obvious reason why he hasn't. Stokes use of himself as a bowler is interesting. No overs in the previous match, none in the first innings, 8 on the reel today.Addick Addict said:From 53-0 to 54-3 (all three wickets to Leach) to 142-3 off 48 overs for a lead of 92 runs, Have only just caught up with things but, presumably, there is a reason why Ahmed hasn't bowled today given that he only went for 2 runs off 2 overs yesterday? The seamers have bowled 23 overs without success after all.0 -
209 is the record chase for England in Pakistan0
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Thanks skipper! 4 overthrows from Stokes off Ahmed hands Babar his 50 and over that should have gone for 4 goes for 8 instead
But then Ahmed bowls a short one for a change and Babar smashes it straight to Pope at short midwicket!0
