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2ND ASHES TEST: LORDS

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safcpelaw said:
mass changes needed in the red ball game this is awful. Embarrassing pray for rain Australia will be batting the last session today.
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Thankfully the first big change will be Bayliss going at the end of the summer, he's presided over the test team steadily getting worse as he's a ODI specialist coach who is naive enough to think that you can pick a successful ODI team to be a successful test side. His all out aggression approach has failed time and time again and we have a real soft centre at test level, which has culminated in being out 4 times in a single session. We need to appoint a coach who will at least get to grips with the county game and spotting a player with the technique and temperament to succeed in test cricket.
 

It's a batting pitch with sunshine , that's what makes it worse.

Imagine if we had any cloud cover with a pitch that was unpredictable.

All the Australian bowlers are doing is sticking to a length and we are giving away wickets
 
I think this aussie attack is the worst for some time too ! there's no mitchel Johnson, or brett lee hoying it down at over 90 mph
we are shocking atm mind 😬
 
The Breen Machine said:
Thankfully the first big change will be Bayliss going at the end of the summer, he's presided over the test team steadily getting worse as he's an ODI specialist coach who is naive enough to think that you can pick a successful ODI team to be a successful test side. His all out aggression approach has failed time and time again and we have a real soft centre at test level, which has culminated in being out 4 times in a single session. We need to appoint a coach who will at least get to grips with the county game and spotting a player with the technique and temperament to succeed in test cricket.
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I feel like the first thing is that Counties need to develop opening batsmen. How can they do that when 4 day schedule is concentrated at the start and end of the season and there is so much emphasis on T20 and to a lessor extent 50 over cricket, which means the techniques for being successful in that format are more prized?


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The Breen Machine said:
Thankfully the first big change will be Bayliss going at the end of the summer, he's presided over the test team steadily getting worse as he's a ODI specialist coach who is naive enough to think that you can pick a successful ODI team to be a successful test side. His all out aggression approach has failed time and time again and we have a real soft centre at test level, which has culminated in being out 4 times in a single session. We need to appoint a coach who will at least get to grips with the county game and spotting a player with the technique and temperament to succeed in test cricket.
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Have to agree with everything you have said on this one, it’s just heartbreaking when you have spent the best part of 30 years watching us.
 
Stokes was out playing the fiddle fiddle paddle and missing the ball completely
You are going to get criticised but if you are going to be out I would rather it was to a full blooded attacking drive or hook and not this faffing fiddly stuff
 
Bri said:
I feel like the first thing is that Counties need to develop opening batsmen. How can they do that when 4 day schedule is concentrated at the start and end of the season and there is so much emphasis on T20 and to a lessor extent 50 over cricket, which means the techniques for being successful in that format are more prized?


(Don't know the answer)
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They can't, for the reasons you have just gone through. All cricket now is devalued for T20 and The Hundred. 4 day cricket is shoehorned into the beginning and end of the season, usually starting on a Monday so only the retired can go and watch it regularly. There is no value placed in four day cricket by the authorities and therefore up and coming players see it as a side notion to the lucrative T20. Until our authorities do something to change that, we will continue to find a dearth of quality longer-format opening batsmen. Unfortunately, our authorities are blinded by greed and this is likely to get worse before it gets better.
 
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