Yep. Test cricket in this country is on borrowed time. Will the Ashes survive another 20years?
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Australia v England, 2nd Test, 4th December 0400
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Yep. Test cricket in this country is on borrowed time. Will the Ashes survive another 20years?
The Breen Machine
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Thankfully crowds are still as large as ever in England, rarely an issue selling out for a test match despite the inflated prices.
DonaldDownTheWing
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I’m not sure he will be. If the ashes ends up 4 or 5-0, then the whole set up will change.
Stokes may stay on as player but McCullum will leave the red ball side, Key might go from the ECB and the new head coach will probably choose a proper test cricketer for captain and vice captain.
Who that’ll be nobody knows, because the only proper test cricketers we’ve got at the moment are Root & Stokes
The Breen Machine
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I’m not sure he will be. If the ashes ends up 4 or 5-0, then the whole set up will change.
Stokes may stay on as player but McCullum will leave the red ball side, Key might go from the ECB and the new head coach will probably choose a proper test cricketer for captain and vice captain.
Who that’ll be nobody knows, because the only proper test cricketers we’ve got at the moment are Root & Stokes
Other than Stokes, I don't see any leaders in the current set up. It'll be Brook next by default either way.
Keep producing players that can’t bat in any other gear than T20 and they’ll dwindle.
The Breen Machine
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Yeah if the test side is unsuccessful then numbers will drop off I agree.
Discopants91
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It's almost like prioritising absolutely everything else over domestic red ball cricket is a bit silly.
Eggman
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He hasn’t changed then ?
NodsNeph
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? Couldn’t hear anything untoward
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan
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Maybe not in the current setup, but surely Haseeb Hameed has the qualifications and deserves another go. I've mentioned previously that I felt he should be on this tour.
Before anyone says he has had a chance and wasn't good enough and was discarded, Crawley and others aren't good enough as specialist batsmen but don't appear to have the 'stigma' of being dropped.
Otherwise Mike Brearley is a good shout.
Got worse if anything
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan
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The first couple of times I listened, when he says 'If I could.....' it sounded worse.? Couldn’t hear anything untoward
The Breen Machine
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Seems a long way off but you never know what fresh views a new setup would bring, although we need Key and McCullum gone to stand any chance of change. I still think Lees, Hameed and probably even Sibley are better options than Crawley.
hoggs11
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Reminds me of Neil from the inbetweeners
yorkyexile
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Why. It would probably be the ultimate insult from him, it takes an Aussie to build a decent England etc
Boycott said pretty much the same on Vaughny`s podcast. They should be out playing matches before the test, gettng used to pink balls, getting used to the aussie tracks etc
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GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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Neil is likeable though. Brook is like a cross of Jay and Neil with the worst bits of both. “Mitch Starc? Nah mate, hit him for 50 in his first over didn’t I”
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Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan
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Stokesy, Stokesy, stop the car, I've cut my cock on a tin can.
---Nemo---
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Unfortunately yes. The Lee Johnson of cricket. We've been great between overs.
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