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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,924
    Jacob Bethell is just 22 and an undoubted talent. I am a massive fan of his but he is a thoroughly undercooked one. He spent a lot of last summer with his feet up when he should have been out in the middle for his county - 43 red ball runs all summer. He has yet to hit a red ball hundred in his career.

    Compare that to Marnus Labuschagne. He started the season playing for his club and has also had seven games for Queensland in the first couple of months. In eight innings for the State this season he has hit five hundreds. That's a 31-year-old with 297 innings and 34 tons behind him.

    Labuschagne's not been hiding because he has to fight for his place in Australia's Ashes side. It's a coin toss between Bethell and Pope for a place. How did we get to this position? 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,736
    I would tell Pope that he has the first 2 tests against Australia. 
    If he performs well then he keeps his place. 
    Should he fail in those 2 tests then Bethell gets his chance. 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,033
    blackpool72 said:
    I would tell Pope that he has the first 2 tests against Australia. 
    If he performs well then he keeps his place. 
    Should he fail in those 2 tests then Bethell gets his chance. 
    I'd do the opposite. In big series when Pope has gone into the series with questions over his place he has scored a ton first up. India home and away examples that jump out. I'm hoping the questions over his place do the same here.

    In both those series he has done little else so maybe we should drop him for the 2nd test though! 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,786
    edited 1:17PM
    I see Alistair Cook is advertising The Ashes on TNT. Do you think this might mean he'll be part of the comms team ? 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,645
    golfaddick said:
    I see Alistair Cook is advertising The Ashes on TNT. Do you think this might mean he'll be part of the comms team ? 
    He’s been advertised as part of their team from the off, along with Steven Finn and Graeme Swan 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,924
    golfaddick said:
    I see Alistair Cook is advertising The Ashes on TNT. Do you think this might mean he'll be part of the comms team ? 
    He is on co-commentary duty along with Ebony Rainford-Brent, Graeme Swann and Seven Finn 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,786
    Addick Addict said:
    golfaddick said:
    I see Alistair Cook is advertising The Ashes on TNT. Do you think this might mean he'll be part of the comms team ? 
    He is on co-commentary duty along with Ebony Rainford-Brent, Graeme Swann and Seven Finn 
    That's good then. I like Swann-y. 

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