3rd Ashes Test - Headingley

[Far Tibetan Mountain]

50 more and they can declare quite comfortably, giving them 3 days to get our lot out.

 

[Dinsdale]

The bowling is good, in some cases VERY good but the batting is awful. Watch old clips of Gooch, Atherton or Strauss - lots of good bowling but batsmen who knew where their off stump was and batsmen prepared to leave 6 balls in a row. So what if we only score 220 in a day, it's good old fashioned test cricket
Now look at the wickets we lost today and how many of them could have left the ball....

I'll have a look when I get home, but this is the problem now. 40 over and 20/20 has bred a new generation who think they need to score off every single delivery. Just leave it alone if its not there to hit. Play your shots when it is.

 

[Lord Alfred]

next test shake the full thing up:

Sibley
Burns
????
Root
Pope
Stokes
Foakes
Broad
Archer
Leach
Anderson

I'd settle for a team which rhymes, at least we might get a laugh. There's Stokes, Woakes and Foakes... Any others?

 

[Julio_Schwarz]

Feel sorry for Archer and Broad (and Leach i suppose). Only ones in this team that can hold their heads high at the moment. Now having to do all the hard work again because of their colleagues lack of application.

 

[mackembhoy]

Slightly unsure on Hildreth now but that's how I'd go too.

Why not when Rogers had fine career for Aus as a mid 30s player.

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

What's Trott, Bell and Trescothick up to these days?

 

[King Kareoke]

We desperately need a Paul Collingwood type batsman in the middle order

In terms of a captain would Stokes be able to do it

 

[TopCat]

What's Trott, Bell and Trescothick up to these days?

Bell is the only one still playing I think but pretty sure he's injured

 

[brandon]

Khawaja making it look f***ing easy is entirely embarrassing for our set of muppets.

 

[TopCat]

We desperately need a Paul Collingwood type batsman in the middle order

In terms of a captain would Stokes be able to do it

It would kill Stokes' game if he had to captain us too - he's already out best batsman, outstanding fielder and talisman with the ball (on occasions) - to add the captaincy would dull him down like it did Beefy and Fred

 

[SAFC 2012]

We desperately need a Paul Collingwood type batsman in the middle order

In terms of a captain would Stokes be able to do it

And a ali cook type at top and a ian bell would come in handy. Pietersen too

We are shite

 

[brandon]

Realistically what do we need to get them all out for? Anything less than 130 (chasing around 250) i think keeps us interested slightly

They’ve got enough already.

 

[TopCat]

Khawaja making it look f***ing easy is entirely embarrassing for our set of muppets.

How the fuck that walking wicket gets a game for Australia is beyond me

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

Bell is the only one still playing I think but pretty sure he's injured

Probably still useful injured. Give Collingwood some pads as well.

 

[SAFC 2012]

Khawaja making it look f***ing easy is entirely embarrassing for our set of muppets.

He averages more than all of them bar root.

Wont be far off root soon if he doesnt sort his shit out

 

[TopCat]

They’ve got enough already.

50 more runs and I'd agree with you - this England side rarely collapses twice but 175 is beyond us IMHO

 

[Comeback_Kenwyne]

Yeah you are right, I wasn't thinking about his back problems.....
Are there any good/very good county captains out there that could scrap for their wicket?

Hildreth?

Haway man: does Cook fancy coming back for a year? We're in dire straights.

This time last year people might have said Burns, who is the reigning CC captain...

 

[Deleted member 36123]

I'd settle for a team which rhymes, at least we might get a laugh. There's Stokes, Woakes and Foakes... Any others?

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew...

 

[SAFC11]

Utterly embarresing

 

[aceman]

Archer taken out the attack already. He must be fucked.