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Bashir has been packed off to Glamorgan and so far he has returned figures of 22-2-92-0 (ER 4.18). It's not his fault that the CC is mainly played at the wrong time of year for spinners to take wickets but he's not offering any control either.
Essex, on the road that is Chelmsford, scored 582-6 and Surrey in reply are 109-1. Harmer's figures to date are 13-3-16-0 (ER 1.23).
Harmer isn't qualified to play for England but the common denominator is that both are offies - one has 66 career wickets at 50.65 (ER 3.62) and the other has 947 wickets at 26.32 (ER 2.86). Our number one spinner has next to zero experience but the ECB expect him to be successful in taking wickets and/or holding an end up in the forthcoming Test series against India and Australia.0 -
All out for 371!MarcusH26 said:Tom Banton with a triple hundred for Somerset. That's quite the comeback from someone who's career looked down in the dumps.
Exactly the type of player Key will take a gamble on too.....0 -
You can never have too many keepers in the side and I can see our Ashes team looking something like this:
Duckett (WK)
Banton (WK)
Pope (WK)
Bairstow (WK)
Buttler (WK)
Cox (WK)
Smith (WK)
Rew (WK)
Bracey (WK)
Robinson (WK)
Foakes (WK)
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Harry Brook appointed white ball captain, in both formats.3
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31-4-4-92 going at 2.93 for Jack Carson for Sussex at Edgbaston on a pitch that hasn't offered a great deal. No idea why Bashir is favoured. Should at least give Carson the Zimbabwe test to see what he can do. Hove will be a road as well probably this season.Addick Addict said:Bashir has been packed off to Glamorgan and so far he has returned figures of 22-2-92-0 (ER 4.18). It's not his fault that the CC is mainly played at the wrong time of year for spinners to take wickets but he's not offering any control either.
Essex, on the road that is Chelmsford, scored 582-6 and Surrey in reply are 109-1. Harmer's figures to date are 13-3-16-0 (ER 1.23).
Harmer isn't qualified to play for England but the common denominator is that both are offies - one has 66 career wickets at 50.65 (ER 3.62) and the other has 947 wickets at 26.32 (ER 2.86). Our number one spinner has next to zero experience but the ECB expect him to be successful in taking wickets and/or holding an end up in the forthcoming Test series against India and Australia.1 -
Matthew Waite for fuckin England0
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Jack Leach bowling 65 overs in an innings and Archie Vaughan 50 is quite impressive from Somerset0
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Worcester somehow held on for a draw!MarcusH26 said:Jack Leach bowling 65 overs in an innings and Archie Vaughan 50 is quite impressive from Somerset0 -
Brings up an interesting debate, Banton’s innings was superb but should he have been called in earlier? In any other team sport there’s no way a result would be potentially jeopardised for the sake of one individualkillerandflash said:
Worcester somehow held on for a draw!MarcusH26 said:Jack Leach bowling 65 overs in an innings and Archie Vaughan 50 is quite impressive from Somerset0 -
Worcs batted out 200 overs lolfenaddick said:
Brings up an interesting debate, Banton’s innings was superb but should he have been called in earlier? In any other team sport there’s no way a result would be potentially jeopardised for the sake of one individualkillerandflash said:
Worcester somehow held on for a draw!MarcusH26 said:Jack Leach bowling 65 overs in an innings and Archie Vaughan 50 is quite impressive from Somerset0 - Sponsored links:
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Of course but Somerset batted 150 and weren’t even close to being bowled out. Wicket clearly favoured batting and Somerset just about misjudged it. If someone is scoring that high then there’s always a chance that a team can bat out a lot of oversLeuth said:
Worcs batted out 200 overs lolfenaddick said:
Brings up an interesting debate, Banton’s innings was superb but should he have been called in earlier? In any other team sport there’s no way a result would be potentially jeopardised for the sake of one individualkillerandflash said:
Worcester somehow held on for a draw!MarcusH26 said:Jack Leach bowling 65 overs in an innings and Archie Vaughan 50 is quite impressive from Somerset0 -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cwy0jveg7d3o
Away from England, Will Pucovski has retired due to his repeated concussions.0 -
It's not difficult to understand why Somerset are happy to send England's number one out on loan - 17 career wickets in the CC for Somerset, Worcester and Glamorgan at 80.59 each with an ER of 3.46. In addition to Leach, they have Vaughan who has 16 wickets at 26.31 and an ER of 2.36 and he can open the batting too.MarcusH26 said:
31-4-4-92 going at 2.93 for Jack Carson for Sussex at Edgbaston on a pitch that hasn't offered a great deal. No idea why Bashir is favoured. Should at least give Carson the Zimbabwe test to see what he can do. Hove will be a road as well probably this season.Addick Addict said:Bashir has been packed off to Glamorgan and so far he has returned figures of 22-2-92-0 (ER 4.18). It's not his fault that the CC is mainly played at the wrong time of year for spinners to take wickets but he's not offering any control either.
Essex, on the road that is Chelmsford, scored 582-6 and Surrey in reply are 109-1. Harmer's figures to date are 13-3-16-0 (ER 1.23).
Harmer isn't qualified to play for England but the common denominator is that both are offies - one has 66 career wickets at 50.65 (ER 3.62) and the other has 947 wickets at 26.32 (ER 2.86). Our number one spinner has next to zero experience but the ECB expect him to be successful in taking wickets and/or holding an end up in the forthcoming Test series against India and Australia.1 -
Addick Addict said:
It's not difficult to understand why Somerset are happy to send England's number one out on loan - 17 career wickets in the CC for Somerset, Worcester and Glamorgan at 80.59 each with an ER of 3.46. In addition to Leach, they have Vaughan who has 16 wickets at 26.31 and an ER of 2.36 and he can open the batting too.MarcusH26 said:
31-4-4-92 going at 2.93 for Jack Carson for Sussex at Edgbaston on a pitch that hasn't offered a great deal. No idea why Bashir is favoured. Should at least give Carson the Zimbabwe test to see what he can do. Hove will be a road as well probably this season.Addick Addict said:Bashir has been packed off to Glamorgan and so far he has returned figures of 22-2-92-0 (ER 4.18). It's not his fault that the CC is mainly played at the wrong time of year for spinners to take wickets but he's not offering any control either.
Essex, on the road that is Chelmsford, scored 582-6 and Surrey in reply are 109-1. Harmer's figures to date are 13-3-16-0 (ER 1.23).
Harmer isn't qualified to play for England but the common denominator is that both are offies - one has 66 career wickets at 50.65 (ER 3.62) and the other has 947 wickets at 26.32 (ER 2.86). Our number one spinner has next to zero experience but the ECB expect him to be successful in taking wickets and/or holding an end up in the forthcoming Test series against India and Australia.
Absolutely , Vaughan gives you a top order batter and Leach will play every game he's fit for.
I don't really know what Key and Mccullum see in Bashir that's worth persisting with.2 -
They are pot committed to doing so because of his central contract. Not picking him is, effectively, an admittance they got it wrong. The same as McCullum saying that Crawley will open in the Ashes come what may.MarcusH26 said:Addick Addict said:
It's not difficult to understand why Somerset are happy to send England's number one out on loan - 17 career wickets in the CC for Somerset, Worcester and Glamorgan at 80.59 each with an ER of 3.46. In addition to Leach, they have Vaughan who has 16 wickets at 26.31 and an ER of 2.36 and he can open the batting too.MarcusH26 said:
31-4-4-92 going at 2.93 for Jack Carson for Sussex at Edgbaston on a pitch that hasn't offered a great deal. No idea why Bashir is favoured. Should at least give Carson the Zimbabwe test to see what he can do. Hove will be a road as well probably this season.Addick Addict said:Bashir has been packed off to Glamorgan and so far he has returned figures of 22-2-92-0 (ER 4.18). It's not his fault that the CC is mainly played at the wrong time of year for spinners to take wickets but he's not offering any control either.
Essex, on the road that is Chelmsford, scored 582-6 and Surrey in reply are 109-1. Harmer's figures to date are 13-3-16-0 (ER 1.23).
Harmer isn't qualified to play for England but the common denominator is that both are offies - one has 66 career wickets at 50.65 (ER 3.62) and the other has 947 wickets at 26.32 (ER 2.86). Our number one spinner has next to zero experience but the ECB expect him to be successful in taking wickets and/or holding an end up in the forthcoming Test series against India and Australia.
Absolutely , Vaughan gives you a top order batter and Leach will play every game he's fit for.
I don't really know what Key and Mccullum see in Bashir that's worth persisting with.0 -
Bit weak on the bowling 😁Addick Addict said:You can never have too many keepers in the side and I can see our Ashes team looking something like this:
Duckett (WK)
Banton (WK)
Pope (WK)
Bairstow (WK)
Buttler (WK)
Cox (WK)
Smith (WK)
Rew (WK)
Bracey (WK)
Robinson (WK)
Foakes (WK)1 -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cwy0jveg7d3o
I thought this had already been confirmed but one time Aussie test batter Will Puckovski has retired with concussion symptoms at 27.0 -
I'd rather have a team of Kermorgantslolwray said:
Bit week on the bowling 😁Addick Addict said:You can never have too many keepers in the side and I can see our Ashes team looking something like this:
Duckett (WK)
Banton (WK)
Pope (WK)
Bairstow (WK)
Buttler (WK)
Cox (WK)
Smith (WK)
Rew (WK)
Bracey (WK)
Robinson (WK)
Foakes (WK)0 -
Coming in as nightwatchman, Dom Bess has hit a ton for Yorkshire. I remember when he was the future of England spin bowling (he's only 27 now)2
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A few places reporting that Sam Cook is being rested this weekend to manage workload ahead of a Test call up this summer, would be well deserved. Can’t find it now but sure I read that Durham are expecting Ben Mckinney to get a call up too5
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Wisden's podcast had McKinney as a likely call up. Am glad Cook is finally getting recognised.fenaddick said:A few places reporting that Sam Cook is being rested this weekend to manage workload ahead of a Test call up this summer, would be well deserved. Can’t find it now but sure I read that Durham are expecting Ben Mckinney to get a call up too0 -
If McKinney gets picked, (and he should, a hugely exciting player) it will be interesting to see who drops out, Pope or Crawley. I think it will be Pope with McKinney slotting in at 3.MarcusH26 said:
Wisden's podcast had McKinney as a likely call up. Am glad Cook is finally getting recognised.fenaddick said:A few places reporting that Sam Cook is being rested this weekend to manage workload ahead of a Test call up this summer, would be well deserved. Can’t find it now but sure I read that Durham are expecting Ben Mckinney to get a call up too0 -
Cook would be a bit of a U-turn by the England management, who recently only seem interested in raw pace.fenaddick said:A few places reporting that Sam Cook is being rested this weekend to manage workload ahead of a Test call up this summer, would be well deserved. Can’t find it now but sure I read that Durham are expecting Ben Mckinney to get a call up too0 -
Maybe they've worked out that a varied attack might just work betterkillerandflash said:
Cook would be a bit of a U-turn by the England management, who recently only seem interested in raw pace.fenaddick said:A few places reporting that Sam Cook is being rested this weekend to manage workload ahead of a Test call up this summer, would be well deserved. Can’t find it now but sure I read that Durham are expecting Ben Mckinney to get a call up too0 -
They'll be picking solid opening batsmen next...Leuth said:
Maybe they've worked out that a varied attack might just work betterkillerandflash said:
Cook would be a bit of a U-turn by the England management, who recently only seem interested in raw pace.fenaddick said:A few places reporting that Sam Cook is being rested this weekend to manage workload ahead of a Test call up this summer, would be well deserved. Can’t find it now but sure I read that Durham are expecting Ben Mckinney to get a call up too0 -
McKinney/Sibley is the vision. They're too chicken though and won't go back to the latter even though they obviously should. I guess Duckett has just about earnt a longer runkillerandflash said:
They'll be picking solid opening batsmen next...Leuth said:
Maybe they've worked out that a varied attack might just work betterkillerandflash said:
Cook would be a bit of a U-turn by the England management, who recently only seem interested in raw pace.fenaddick said:A few places reporting that Sam Cook is being rested this weekend to manage workload ahead of a Test call up this summer, would be well deserved. Can’t find it now but sure I read that Durham are expecting Ben Mckinney to get a call up too2 -
I'm incredibly biased but if he continues the form he's in , Tom Haines could be an outside shot for an opener slot. Not a Bazballer per se but his technique has always looked rock solid.0
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Surprised ECB can do that when Cook is not on a central contractfenaddick said:A few places reporting that Sam Cook is being rested this weekend to manage workload ahead of a Test call up this summer, would be well deserved. Can’t find it now but sure I read that Durham are expecting Ben Mckinney to get a call up too1 -
Rehan Ahmed with a century opening for Leicestershire after getting 77 last week. We know he’s liked by the England setup but if he can open and bowl with more control he could become very hard to ignore2
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fenaddick said:Rehan Ahmed with a century opening for Leicestershire after getting 77 last week. We know he’s liked by the England setup but if he can open and bowl with more control he could become very hard to ignore
Bashir going wicketless in Div 2 , surely it's got to be Ahmed Vs Zimbabwe?0
