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England Cricket 2021 (excluding Ashes)
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Remember Lawrence has been in the Essex team since a teenager, so a lot of low scores and inconsistency. I expect his average to pick up a bit2
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A good Test start for Lawrence, but this is a very easy place for him to start0
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it’s the same rubbish that was trotted out about Crawley. They’re both seriously talented and have been moved around the order a bit and have found their feet. Judging players by averages is very 1990’s england selectors btw ; ie a shit way of judging players.McBobbin said:Remember Lawrence has been in the Essex team since a teenager, so a lot of low scores and inconsistency. I expect his average to pick up a bitEdit: just seen original comment which basically said what I’ve just repeated!2 -
Just received a club email
Great to see Dan Lawrence performing so well for England today.
Some of our players have never forgotten a sunny Sunday morning in 2010:
20 June, South Loughton under-13s 102 all out (19.4 overs) lost to Chingford under-13s 103-8 (19.4 overs) by two wickets.
Our frustrated team manager's match report (attached) says it all...
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This is where a snidey player like me and my 14 year old son would have made sure we didn’t take the wicket to let the gun batsmen back in .... we may be shit but our brains can help .
played at Chingford last season in a Sunday friendly and the sun comes down very low behind the bowlers arm at one end, so the last 20 overs or so when we batted were all bowled from the other end !0 -
Looks like a decent bit of depth starting to emerge in the batting too to match the bowling. We still lack another world class batsman but we cant be too greedy with Root and Stokes. Hopefully Crawley and Lawrence/Pope can develop into that player. Test match squad starting to have depth like the limited overs squads.
Openers/3
Burns, Sibley, Crawley, Bracey
Middle order
Root, Pope, Lawrence, Bairstow
Keepers
Buttler, Foakes
All rounders
Stokes, Woakes, Curran,
Spinners
Bess, Leach, Moeen,
Quicks
Anderson Broad
Archer, Wood, Stone,
Still have the reserves of:
Crane, Parkinson, Virdi, Mahmood, Overton, Robinson
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Other than in the spin department that's a lot of depth. And additionally if we were only concerned with short term success, we could have picked Keaton Jennings as an opener, as he's proven to be very good in Asia and we have 6 tests there in the next few months0
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Yep could defo do a batting lineup of the below if you wanted to tailor it to the sub-continent.killerandflash said:Other than in the spin department that's a lot of depth. And additionally if we were only concerned with short term success, we could have picked Keaton Jennings as an opener, as he's proven to be very good in Asia and we have 6 tests there in the next few months
Jennings
Crawley
Bairstow
Root
Lawrence
Foakes
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Also hopefully in Virdi we have a world class spinner coming through. Hopefuklly one of Crane and Parkinson can become the natural successor to Rashid too.0
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A lot of spinners seem to be going down the white ball route, where spinners are very effective but the skillset required is different from red ball cricketcantersaddick said:Also hopefully in Virdi we have a world class spinner coming through. Hopefuklly one of Crane and Parkinson can become the natural successor to Rashid too.0 - Sponsored links:
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I agree, but Virdi hasn't gone down that route. He hasn't played any T20 for surrey and barely any (if at all) one day games. He's very much focused on red ball.killerandflash said:
A lot of spinners seem to be going down the white ball route, where spinners are very effective but the skillset required is different from red ball cricketcantersaddick said:Also hopefully in Virdi we have a world class spinner coming through. Hopefuklly one of Crane and Parkinson can become the natural successor to Rashid too.0 -
Convict stockTodds_right_hook said:Why do Aussie cricketers all have those annoying faces that makes Ian botham want to punch them3 -
warner, smith, hayden and hughes off the top of my head all look like they're out of a shitty period piece about victorian cockney gangsters.Alwaysneil said:
Convict stockTodds_right_hook said:Why do Aussie cricketers all have those annoying faces that makes Ian botham want to punch them0 -
You mean Merv, right? Or Kim, maybe? Surely not Phillip?kentaddick said:
warner, smith, hayden and hughes off the top of my head all look like they're out of a shitty period piece about victorian cockney gangsters.Alwaysneil said:
Convict stockTodds_right_hook said:Why do Aussie cricketers all have those annoying faces that makes Ian botham want to punch them0 -
Surely I can't be the only one thinking this was a completely needless comment that rather distastefully brings in a superb young batsman who tragically passed away in their prime.Chizz said:
You mean Merv, right? Or Kim, maybe? Surely not Phillip?kentaddick said:
warner, smith, hayden and hughes off the top of my head all look like they're out of a shitty period piece about victorian cockney gangsters.Alwaysneil said:
Convict stockTodds_right_hook said:Why do Aussie cricketers all have those annoying faces that makes Ian botham want to punch them3 -
You’re not.PaddyP17 said:
Surely I can't be the only one thinking this was a completely needless comment that rather distastefully brings in a superb young batsman who tragically passed away in their prime.Chizz said:
You mean Merv, right? Or Kim, maybe? Surely not Phillip?kentaddick said:
warner, smith, hayden and hughes off the top of my head all look like they're out of a shitty period piece about victorian cockney gangsters.Alwaysneil said:
Convict stockTodds_right_hook said:Why do Aussie cricketers all have those annoying faces that makes Ian botham want to punch them
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Sri Lanka opened the door and generously invited England in to win this game and, pleasingly, the invitation seems to have been accepted.
Dom Bess will never get an easier 5 wicket haul. He was handed each of them as undeserved reward for a very moderate spell, lacking consistency, control or much genuine threat in helpful conditions. In contrast, Stuart Broad earned every one of his wickets with skill and adaptability.
Apart from some, let's call it youthful inexperience, at the top of England's batting order, led by the Captain, good advantage has been taken of the weakness of the opposition. As the pitch deteriorates Joe Root may need to vary his back foot in all circumstances defence to the spinning ball. As it starts to bite and spit he'll need a plan B. Any attentive or competent field setting may curtail his milking of the sweep shot.
Hopefully Saturday will permit another 2 session net for the England batsmen, quick thrash after tea and insert the hosts with 90 minutes to play and set up an early Sunday victory.1 -
What? I asked for clarification as to which one he meant and assumed that, surely, he didn't mean Phillip.PaddyP17 said:
Surely I can't be the only one thinking this was a completely needless comment that rather distastefully brings in a superb young batsman who tragically passed away in their prime.Chizz said:
You mean Merv, right? Or Kim, maybe? Surely not Phillip?kentaddick said:
warner, smith, hayden and hughes off the top of my head all look like they're out of a shitty period piece about victorian cockney gangsters.Alwaysneil said:
Convict stockTodds_right_hook said:Why do Aussie cricketers all have those annoying faces that makes Ian botham want to punch them0 -
He's doubled down, everyone!Chizz said:
What? I asked for clarification as to which one he meant and assumed that, surely, he didn't mean Phillip.PaddyP17 said:
Surely I can't be the only one thinking this was a completely needless comment that rather distastefully brings in a superb young batsman who tragically passed away in their prime.Chizz said:
You mean Merv, right? Or Kim, maybe? Surely not Phillip?kentaddick said:
warner, smith, hayden and hughes off the top of my head all look like they're out of a shitty period piece about victorian cockney gangsters.Alwaysneil said:
Convict stockTodds_right_hook said:Why do Aussie cricketers all have those annoying faces that makes Ian botham want to punch them3 -
Chizz said:
What? I asked for clarification as to which one he meant and assumed that, surely, he didn't mean Phillip.PaddyP17 said:
Surely I can't be the only one thinking this was a completely needless comment that rather distastefully brings in a superb young batsman who tragically passed away in their prime.Chizz said:
You mean Merv, right? Or Kim, maybe? Surely not Phillip?kentaddick said:
warner, smith, hayden and hughes off the top of my head all look like they're out of a shitty period piece about victorian cockney gangsters.Alwaysneil said:
Convict stockTodds_right_hook said:Why do Aussie cricketers all have those annoying faces that makes Ian botham want to punch themIt was quite clear who he meant.2 - Sponsored links:
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England missing Joe Denly's demon leg spin...2
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Commiserations to Audi Mendis for failing to qualify for the Olympics today0
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They've got Sibleys leg grenades.killerandflash said:England missing Joe Denly's demon leg spin...0 -
promising start from Lawrence, Root is right back on it1
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Very good recovery from Sri Lanka. Only 13 runs behind now and still 5 wickets left. On the positive side England’s bowlers clearly needed this extended practice in unfriendly conditions.1
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Good wicket for Bess there.
We really needed that0 -
7 down now
Leach with the wicket0 -
Another one from Leach. Much better from the spinners0
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Their lead is rising quickly, need to get the last two.0
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One to go.0
