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SPR Aug 2019 2:24pm, 22 Aug 2019 29,046 posts	0 SPR Woakes ATM I think unless batting comes into it. Broad is bowling better. A friend mentioned Buttler as a possibility which on form makes sense if Woakes can take some batting responsibility. Don't need that many bowlers though.
SPR Aug 2019 2:25pm, 22 Aug 2019 29,047 posts	0 SPR England's batting is why they lose and it's been that way for awhile. Captaincy won't change that.
Maclennane Aug 2019 2:29pm, 22 Aug 2019 21,246 posts	0 Maclennane It might, if it’s an attitude thing. I don’t trust root to tell anyone what to do
bonners Aug 2019 2:30pm, 22 Aug 2019 1,277 posts	0 bonners That is true SPR, but there have been numerous instances of us letting the opposition get away when they're seven or eight down, mainly thru mindless captaincy. By the way, who put the commentators curse on Archer? Saying he was going to become a typical English pie thrower in 12 months? Well at the moment he's slower than Broad, in the low eighties.
Cerrertonia Aug 2019 2:35pm, 22 Aug 2019 11,015 posts	0 Cerrertonia Archer is deliberately bowling slower, to suit the conditions.
SPR Aug 2019 2:44pm, 22 Aug 2019 29,048 posts	0 SPR We know the batting is an England philosophy so that needs to change before it will improve. Good luck Buttler telling guys to be more circumspect though... I mean Roy and Buttler are choices based on the philosophy ATM. Bonners - Numerous where the captain is to blame? The first test doesn't seem like one to me.
Maclennane Aug 2019 2:54pm, 22 Aug 2019 21,247 posts	0 Maclennane It's not necessarily about being more circumspect, they look as if they don't know whether to stick or twist at the moment. Stokes is a bludger who's learned to be a batsman, and we saw signs from Buttler in the last innings
SPR Aug 2019 3:07pm, 22 Aug 2019 29,051 posts	0 SPR "they look as if they don't know whether to stick or twist at the moment" This likely simply down to confidence which has been lost due prolonged lack of form.
Wriggling Snake Aug 2019 3:30pm, 22 Aug 2019 23,747 posts	0 Wriggling Snake If England win this game, they don't need Anderson, especially with his current injury record. D.I.Gower, made some awful decisions, but also had to captain crap teams against good ones.
TRO Saracen Aug 2019 3:36pm, 22 Aug 2019 19,448 posts	0 TRO Saracen IT Botham and Flintoff seem to stick out to me as crap captains; FFS don’t give it to Stokes, your swashbuckling all rounder is not the answer....