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Cheg Mar 2021 9:55am, 6 Mar 2021 2,700 posts	Quote Pin Cheg But we don’t mean that do we? I’ll have something ready for you all tomorrow. Highlights are that England have won 4 of 25 matches in India since 1990. We can’t play spin, never have been able to. You take these guys to England tomorrow it’s 3-1 England.
57.5 Degrees of Pain Mar 2021 10:00am, 6 Mar 2021 6,729 posts	Quote Pin 57.5 Degrees of Pain Exactly Cheg. Replacing our second rate performers against spin with a third rate contingent would have only one result.
Nicholls595 Mar 2021 10:04am, 6 Mar 2021 23,986 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 But we can sack Bairstow, Burns and Bess right? We all agree with that?
Cheg Mar 2021 10:07am, 6 Mar 2021 2,702 posts	Quote Pin Cheg Oh there’s definitely a few on the hot seat. Bairstow has probably had his last go and Bess has been horribly treated but has performed really poorly. Not sure there is anyone smashing down the door to replace them. I’d like to look into burns. He looks ugly as sin when he plays but we aren’t exactly blessed with openers. Life after Strauss and Cook could be a blog all it’s own.
57.5 Degrees of Pain Mar 2021 10:11am, 6 Mar 2021 6,731 posts	Quote Pin 57.5 Degrees of Pain Ok. Some of the third raters are already in there. One spinner at home is OK, trying to find 2/3 of a top 3 will continue to be the big question.
TROSaracen Mar 2021 10:15am, 6 Mar 2021 23,028 posts	Quote Pin TROSaracen If nothing changes nothing changes. Couple of home wins in June on a swinging green topper with a Duke, and the old farts will conclude everything is ok again.
Ocelot Spleens Mar 2021 10:18am, 6 Mar 2021 30,473 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Bairstow and Burns, Bess is 23, Axar is 27, Bess has to go and bowl a load of overs, Swann only started to play well for england late 20s. Lawrence, looks ok, I have grave doubts about Sibley (he looks as ugly as Burns with similar holes in his style)..it is a mess now, was always going to be if we got tonked, where we were always going to be.
Cheg Mar 2021 10:19am, 6 Mar 2021 2,704 posts	Quote Pin Cheg You want to fix it. Send some attractive men and women overseas. Get them to get an Indian bride or groom. Wait 20-25 years and then bring the sons back under the England flag to bowl their spin and bat on spinning pitches. Problem solved. You’re welcome.
Nicholls595 Mar 2021 10:21am, 6 Mar 2021 23,987 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 Take Root's runs out of this tour, then wait 6, 12 months until Jimmy and Broad have gone. The future looks bleak.
Derby Tup Mar 2021 10:23am, 6 Mar 2021 49,229 posts	Quote Pin Derby Tup V bleak (oh and maybe add a stress fracture for Stokes)