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Ocelot Spleens 19 Jul 3:13pm, 19 Jul 2024 39,289 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens Anderson told him not to bother on a flat one.
Cerrertonia 19 Jul 3:13pm, 19 Jul 2024 21,534 posts	0 Cerrertonia fetcheveryone wrote:Any reasons given as to why Stokes hasn't had a bowl yet? My impression is that we're treating this as a warm-up game for the Ashes and they're trying to give Woakes a few long spells as his season has been pretty disrupted so far. Root's probably more likely to come on that Stokes at this point.
rf_fozzy 19 Jul 3:15pm, 19 Jul 2024 22,707 posts	0 rf_fozzy Cerrertonia wrote:we're treating this as a warm-up game for the Ashes The ashes starting in December/November 2025? Hmmm.
rf_fozzy 19 Jul 3:17pm, 19 Jul 2024 22,708 posts	0 rf_fozzy All the England bowlers going at >3.5rpo No-one to strangle up an end at the moment. Which was always going to be the issue with binning Anderson before he was ready.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 19 Jul 3:24pm, 19 Jul 2024 19,534 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain How about a "Bring back Larwood" campaign fozzy? At least he could do this short ball stuff properly.
rf_fozzy 19 Jul 3:26pm, 19 Jul 2024 22,711 posts	0 rf_fozzy Larwood? No. I want S.F. Barnes.
fetcheveryone 19 Jul 3:26pm, 19 Jul 2024 30,860 posts	0 fetcheveryone I am pleased that the West Indies are getting stuck in. Fingers crossed for an exciting Test.
fetcheveryone 19 Jul 3:31pm, 19 Jul 2024 30,861 posts	0 fetcheveryone fetcheveryone wrote:Any reasons given as to why Stokes hasn't had a bowl yet? Only 40 minutes later.
Cheg 19 Jul 3:53pm, 19 Jul 2024 4,333 posts	0 Cheg Yeah for all of Anderson's wicket taking, him just strangling the run rate and giving them a measly 11 runs off 10 overs was also very satisfying.
Cheg 19 Jul 3:55pm, 19 Jul 2024 4,334 posts	0 Cheg This new bowling coach J Anderson isn't up to much.