4th Ashes Test - Old Trafford

[TheRey]

Khawarja out, Starc in

 

[Sharpshooter]

Siddle has also been named as part of the 12 man team, so it will be between him and Starc for Pattinson's place.

 

[Skrabble]

Weather forecast doesn't look very promising for the first three days at the moment.

 

[TopCat]

Siddle has also been named as part of the 12 man team, so it will be between him and Starc for Pattinson's place.

Will be Starc. Seems to be a lot of noise about him from all sources at the mo.
There was talk that they would pick Mitch Marsh too in case Starc was too wayward. We need to get after Johnson Mk.II as soon as he comes on to bowl

Weather forecast doesn't look very promising for the first three days at the moment.

Friday looks the worst day, should get enough play on the others days (according to current forecast) to get a result.
We have to win this test and put all the pressure back on the Aussies. Archer v Smith may well be the defining battle of the series

 

[marathon9]

come on ENGLAND.. you got the momentum now....

 

[WCC]

England team for fourth Specsavers Ashes Test: Rory Burns, Joe Denly, Joe Root (c), Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow (w), Jos Buttler, Craig Overton, Jofra Archer, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach.

Woakes out C. Overton in. What has Curran done?

 

[brandon]

Have to say I think our chances are a little better if the weather is shite. Rather face them under cloudy skies than blue ones.

 

[NorthCountryBoy]

England team for fourth Specsavers Ashes Test: Rory Burns, Joe Denly, Joe Root (c), Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow (w), Jos Buttler, Craig Overton, Jofra Archer, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach.

Woakes out C. Overton in. What has Curran done?

More to the point, why drop Woakes after one bad game?

 

[TopCat]

Overton in for Woakes? What a truly bizarre selection
Our tail really does start at 8 these days after all those years of being spoiled by having 8 and 9 as Ali and Woakes we now have a bloe averaging 21 in FCC coming in at 6 wickets down....

 

[Jack Torrance]

More to the point, why drop Woakes after one bad game?

Think he needs a rest and the Aussies have worked him out with the short ball.
Overton looks a strange decision but they might see him as a wicket taking option against Smith, think he might have got him a couple of times in the last ashes. I'd have played Curran mind

 

[Liverpool Beachball]

Woakes has played a lot of cricket this summer and needs a rest

Overton though

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

Meh. An absolute nothing cricketer

 

[Ageing trundler]

F***ing hell

 

[mackembhoy]

What the actual fuck is wrong with the selectors and Bayliss

Sam Curran must be confused right now.

 

[chopsfc007]

What the actual fuck is wrong with the selectors and Bayliss

Sam Curran must be confused right now.

The way Buttler and roy have batted curran could get a place on batting alone

 

[hudson88]

I hope this gets bumped in a couple of days time when he proves me wrong but what a piss poor selection that is

 

[Mainze]

Hmmm Overton.

Looks like we are just going full on pace and bounce. Should be a feisty game this.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

Hmmm Overton.

Looks like we are just going full on pace and bounce. Should be a feisty game this.

He’s not even fast. His brother is, he’s a trundler

 

[TopCat]

He’s not even fast. His brother is, he’s a trundler

Another one in the Toby Roland Jones mold. Great on a green top when it's cloudy, but offers little else on a flat deck.
Curran would be just as dangerous as this lad and offers far more with the bat

 

[smoker]

Overton was poor in Australia and NZ. Roland Jones would have been a better selection, never mind Curran.

Selectors on glue.