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Dec 2013
8:43am, 29 Dec 2013
53,208 posts
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Gobi
that was shit
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Dec 2013
9:16am, 29 Dec 2013
1,668 posts
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FreshStart
Hopefully that is the last we'll see of Bairstow behind the stumps.
Why the hell did Root bowl before Monty?
Send them home now. The women are flying out tomorrow, pick them for the final test.
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Dec 2013
9:17am, 29 Dec 2013
2,114 posts
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postieboy
Would it be too radical to demand sweeping change? Everything about this England team seems stale and unhappy. Our brand of attritional cricket has finally been found out by an ultra-aggressive Australia and there are no answers from a demoralised unit which is sorely lacking in inspiration.
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Dec 2013
9:19am, 29 Dec 2013
1,669 posts
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FreshStart
Good to see that Kallis has got a century in what will probably be his last test appearance.
We could do with a couple of players like Kallis.
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Dec 2013
11:39am, 29 Dec 2013
3,092 posts
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Doctor K
What was the point of selecting Monty only for Root -a part time spinner at best -to bowl before him, other than to undermine Monty? I'd have been bloody annoyed at that. Apart from Jimmy all the bowlers were too expensive and appeared to have given up.
Carberry's problem is his lack of scoring -Chris Rogers impressed me at Manchester watching him bat -always trying to get moving, ones and twos, scoring runs, keeping the bowlers on their toes. It's OK just sitting there but pointless if you aren't making some runs. I agree Bell should be at 3 but he might well have suggested that but England are stubborn sometimes -Root's at 3 and that's it..sort of mentality.
Kallis has been a superb test cricketer -brilliant all round
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Dec 2013
11:47am, 29 Dec 2013
3,093 posts
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Doctor K
Furthermore -was Broad fully fit?
With a captaincy display like this latest innings Cook must be under threat his brain is scrambled completely
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Dec 2013
12:24pm, 29 Dec 2013
10,500 posts
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The Teaboy
The only reason I can think of Root bowling before Monty was that he would turn the ball away from the left-handers.
Bairstow not going for that first chance off Broad was unforgivable.
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Dec 2013
2:10pm, 29 Dec 2013
4,030 posts
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Badger
Think Bell's losing his appetite for the game at the moment. He should be at 3, but they leave him where he is. Started out batting fairly well, at least by the standards of the current series, ran out of partners on 72*, everything gets shifted around apart from his place in the order, as if to say "just you keep running out of partners, then".
Dreadful, dreadful performance. Just one more good session batting might have been enough to give the bowlers something to bowl at for once.
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Dec 2013
2:43pm, 29 Dec 2013
5,960 posts
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rf_fozzy
Bairstow is playing his first game as keeper in a shell-shocked side - yes, he should have gone for that one, but give the kid a chance before condemning , he's played one game of cricket since last summer, never kept with Cook at 1st, etc.... He needs work on his keeping. So did Prior when he first came into the side.
You also forget Prior was dropping things as well.
Cook dropping the one straight to him was far worse.
Root bowled because he turns the ball away from the left-handers and did an ok job. Warner took a liking to Monty at Adelaide as well.
Agree that this is perhaps the worst performance I can remember by an England side. Simply because the team isn't that bad and Australia aren't that good. We're making them look like world-beaters and they simply aren't.
Aggers' column on the BBC website is pretty much spot-on.
BTW - don't think wholesale changes for the 5th test are the solution - for the same reasons I gave before the 4th test. I do think that they need a serious sit-down and sort out and re-think after they get back though.
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Dec 2013
3:12pm, 29 Dec 2013
5,994 posts
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Chrisull
Extra batsman please. Not going to win games if we can only break 250 once in a blue moon. I don't blame the bowlers, they are being given nothing to defend. Ballance has to start, and if Root can bowl, well then Bresnan can sling his hook.
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