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England v India - Third Test, 10/07
- Thread starter TheRey
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Ongo Baglogian
Midfield
Painful watching this fucker
Voice of fair play
Striker
Plenty have though Duckett, Smith, Carse
TheRey
Striker
@Voice of fair play has switched off bored already
mackembhoy
Striker
Gonna bag a century now you've said that.
Durham-Mackem41
Midfield
Crawley looking in prime form he’s utterly clueless against decent bowling.
Voice of fair play
Striker
Crawley confidence looks shot!
Look a few have said looks desperate to score.
Look a few have said looks desperate to score.
TheRey
Striker
Smith is hardly a hunch, he's been talked up for years
Crawley is f***ing embarrassing here, it's painful to watch
Doctor_Sunlun
Full Back
How’s he going to get any sort of consistency when he’s changing guard pretty much every ball? Needs to go back to basics bat on middle and off and leave anything wide.
Undoubtedly.
IIRC I started a Crawley finished thread about 18 months back
Surprised it hasn’t been bumped to hell
Voice of fair play
Striker
Come in miles earlier than expected righty soo.Smith is hardly a hunch, he's been talked up for years
They were many wanting to keep Foakes in the team
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mackembhoy
Striker
Duckett and Smith were absolutely smashing it in CC.
Carse is picked on attributes that his mate Ben knows he has. If Carse played for Derbyshire he'd not have got picked.
Raymondo
Central Defender
Absolutely this. Every single England opener since the Cook/Strauss partnership - and there’ve been absolutely loads, can feel very aggrieved not to have been given a fraction of the lives Crawley has had.
Regarding the ‘no clear candidate’, I liken it to football managers - just because there’s no obvious replacement, doesn’t make it right to keep plugging away with the current catastrophe.
He’ll be out soon here too, absolutely minging innings this. All over the place.
Long term, despite my views on him now, I still have a nagging feeling that he’ll be best suited to Australian pitches - more so than anywhere else. BUT, Australian pitches of late haven’t been the Australian pitches that we know and have come to expect. How funny would it be, if after four and a bit years of planning, the ridiculous kookaburra experiment and the grooming of tall, quick bowlers, the Aussies prepare sporty pitches (like they did for the BGT) and we get battered on conditions that are more English than ever before?!
I’ve said that since New Zealand about three summers ago when Boult and southee hardly celebrated when getting him out
TheRey
Striker
Well let's be honest, it's like scoring a goal in the back garden with a 4 year old child in goal. It'd be f***ing weird to celebrate it
Doctor_Sunlun
Full Back
I know they’d never do it but I can’t see past having someone like Sibley anchoring the innings whilst the rest of them try to score aggressively
Voice of fair play
Striker
Duckett was given a chance when others had discarded him and Foakes was the preferred option of many to keep
Raymondo
Central Defender
Until he averages sub-25 with the ball (so never, basically) I’ll never be able to make peace with that.
Especially while Ahmed and Carson are breathing.
