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While we wait for the next Test, have a look at this:
Just rang Keaton Jennings;
Apparently he's just popped out but I've been asked to hold on as he'll be back shortly
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Stoneman is 30 and has a very average record.
Hales has no idea where his offstump is and leaves poorly
Hales however is proven against international bowling.
James Hildreth should've been looked at when Strauss retired.
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Stoneman's stats have suffered from playing a lot of cricket in very bowler friendly conditions at Durham.
Now we're writing him off, Jennings will probably get 150 today.
Jennings has time on the ball, huge asset. He needs to commit to front or back foot as he does tend to play in 'two man's land' at times, evidenced by getting out caught in the 3rd/4th slip area - a sure sign of propping forward when you maybe should be back.
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The greatest fast bowling team in history, and they have 2 spinners and Jason Holder in their bowling attack (at Headingley). For all their batting woes in the last test, this shows the depth of their decline more than anything.
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Personally, I'd go for a second spinner rather than a fifth quick bowler though.
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I'm hoping that by posting that the game springs into life and Broady gets a hat trick!
Quite a turn-round from the previous post.
And, why does it look like Anderson is wearing a training bra?
Stoneman doesn't have a stellar first class record but you wouldn't expect someone who played for nearly ten years opening the batting at a seamer-friendly Durham home track to be walking about with a 45+ average. Trescothick didn't come into the Test side with a stellar record, averaging low 30s for five seasons prior to his international debut, and one knock against Glamorgan is what turned Fletcher's head back in the day. Hales is proven against international bowlers operating with fielding restrictions. As you say, no clue about off stump and it wasn't so long ago that the Indians twigged that he's not great against the short ball into the body. Test cricket.. not a hope.
Quite honestly, the crowing from some in the England journalist camp was vomit-inducing prior to this Test. So let's dissect some shit:
-Stoneman: did his job as did Malan in the second innings. The concept of grafting and making ugly runs appeared to be lost to many on Twitter. The West Indies got the ball in the right areas and used the conditions. Even someone like Roston Chase, not someone I rate much as a spinner, got some rip, albeit helped by some English batting that retreated into full EEEK IT'S TURNING mode. It's time to give someone a committed run in the side. After all, we've just seen a West Indian who had a shit average prior to this Test come up with two centuries after the selectors stuck with him. We need to do the same.
-Picking Woakes: it's one of the things that I can never understand with successive English management teams. Lost count of the number of times bowlers have been picked far too early after coming back from injury. You saw it clearly a few years ago with Broad when he was down on pace at the World Cup and people wrote him off for good. When you come back from something like a knee injury, you need to get miles in the legs and get the rhythm. Prior to this Test match, since the start of July, Woakes had bowled 35 overs: 15 overs in a 2nd XI game, 20 overs in a CC match. Since the start of May, in all cricket prior to this Test he'd bowled 45 overs, a season wrecked by the injury he sustained at the start of June. I don't care how many net sessions you have, that's never going to get you ready to bowl in a Test match. TRJ should have played. You can get people who are less than physically 100% through a game with injections and physio but if you're not what I think of as match fit as a bowler, you're fucked.
-Dismissing the West Indies seam attack. It's not strong but we're not much better. Pull JA and SB out and we're looking shaky again. Wood isn't going to be a long term player for England (sadly), Finn might need some new surroundings as reports are that he might leave Middlesex, Woakes needs some serious overs under his belt now, TRJ will never be a fashionable player, which leaves not much in the reserves.
With the day-night Test and this result, you'll continue to have peopel asking how we can make Test cricket better. The answer is simple: you make first-class cricket better. It's why the Windies have been so shit over recent years. They play poor FC cricket on slow turning decks which make shit spinners look like Grimmett and destroy their quick bowlers.
Broad continues to annoy. He's obviously a decent bowler, having taken that many wickets, but when he's not on song he's really not on song. I get the impression he can't be captained easily, otherwise why does he continue to bowl short when he shouldn't?
I would have preferred us to not pick our first-choice bowlers for the final test and to give the likes of TRJ, Ball and Finn a run-out, I may be old-school but for me the Ashes is the most important thing in English cricket.
It was so obvious from how he was bowling that he was still coming back. The like of Michael Vaughan said that they'd have picked Woakes over TRJ because Woakes was the better bowler. Right now, he isn't.
The 'roos now have Starc, Hazlewood, Siddle, and Pattinson on the injured list. The A tour had Jackson Bird, Chadd Sayers, Chris Tremain and Jason Behrendorff as their four main seamers. That's not exactly an intimidating reserve list.
Most sides are the same. The reserves aren't that strong. The exception is India who do seem to churn out Test batsmen because their first class game allows batsmen to play long innings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/41103549
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