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Tell you what you can see why England will never go back to Sibley. 101 off 283 balls is shocking in a four day game and pretty much ensured there was never going to be enough time to force a result.

All irrelevant anyway as Essex are cruising in their second innings but aye, very negative cricket as ever from him.
 
Dexter said:
Tell you what you can see why England will never go back to Sibley. 101 off 283 balls is shocking in a four day game and pretty much ensured there was never going to be enough time to force a result.

All irrelevant anyway as Essex are cruising in their second innings but aye, very negative cricket as ever from him.
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Dexter said:
Tell you what you can see why England will never go back to Sibley. 101 off 283 balls is shocking in a four day game and pretty much ensured there was never going to be enough time to force a result.

All irrelevant anyway as Essex are cruising in their second innings but aye, very negative cricket as ever from him.
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Aye on what appears to be an absolute road, that innings suggests to me he's not expanded his game quite as much as some would have us believe. I don't mind a batsman dropping anchor, but that's a bit much in a first innings effort.
 
Dexter said:
Tell you what you can see why England will never go back to Sibley. 101 off 283 balls is shocking in a four day game and pretty much ensured there was never going to be enough time to force a result.

All irrelevant anyway as Essex are cruising in their second innings but aye, very negative cricket as ever from him.
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Well exactly once Essex posted 409 in the first innings, to bat that long as an opener in your first innings is basically saying we can’t win the game now.

For a team that obviously has quite rightly aspirations to win the championship and has a cracking team, it’s such a negative way to approach it.

He was actually out in the 97th over for 101
 
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Resounding win for Gloucestershire, beating a Derbyshire side I fancy to challenge for promotion by 10 wickets.

Given their struggles to keep their best players, and poor start to the season, that is a great result for them.
 
Voice of fair play said:
Well exactly once Essex posted 409 in the first innings, to bat that long as an opener in your first innings is basically saying we can’t win the game now.

For a team that obviously has quite rightly aspirations to win the championship and has a cracking team, it’s such a negative way to approach it.

He was actually out in the 97th over for 101
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Obviously a road so you aim at least for maximum bonus points. Progress Sibley scoring rate to the whole team and Surrey wouldn't have gained a single batting bonus point.
Pitches have got to be a concern when no game in the 1st division has progressed to a 4th innings in this round of matches.
 
It’s totally baffling how often Duckett gets out in the nineties. Starting to think he does it on purpose.
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Ahem...CC scores for Tiger Woods this season

9,20,26,5,27

That's about 15 over par but in line with his England performance norms.

Good job his bosses bosses bosses don't watch the CC.

Got to go harder Zak. Go hard, be hard, get harder, go harder.
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It’s genuinely disgraceful how many England caps this chump has. Makes me a little angry tbh.
 
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TheRey said:
Ah, i see the Bazball followers have found this thread. Hi, kids.

Sibleys role in this Surrey side is to dig in, back long and let the likes of Smith, Pope and Lawrence do their thing. And he does it extremely well.
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Personally always been a big fan of Surrey’s approach in the past winning title after title and always thought unfair some of the criticism they got.

Probably down to jealousy from fans of other clubs.

However having said that for the top team in the country which Surrey are for their opener whoever that maybe to score a century after been in nearly 100 overs after the opposition has scored 400 is basically giving his team no chance to win the game in 4 days.
When you already playing catch up and need to make ground on the leaders is that the approach a team wants from their opening batsman?
 
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TheRey said:
Ah, i see the Bazball followers have found this thread. Hi, kids.

Sibleys role in this Surrey side is to dig in, back long and let the likes of Smith, Pope and Lawrence do their thing. And he does it extremely well.
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Yeh,bored the t!ts of me v Durham at the oval. You can overdo 1st gear.
 
TheRey said:
Ah, i see the Bazball followers have found this thread. Hi, kids.

Sibleys role in this Surrey side is to dig in, back long and let the likes of Smith, Pope and Lawrence do their thing. And he does it extremely well.
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Spot on. He is brilliant at this.

I'm not saying Sibley is the answer for England but when we lose a test in 2 days in Australia or fail to even bat out 50 overs in 3 consecutive ODIs against NZ then maybe its not such a bad idea after all to have someone who knows how to dig in and show some resilience.
 
Turner the Cat said:
Spot on. He is brilliant at this.

I'm not saying Sibley is the answer for England but when we lose a test in 2 days in Australia or fail to even bat out 50 overs in 3 consecutive ODIs against NZ then maybe its not such a bad idea after all to have someone who knows how to dig in and show some resilience.
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Aye let’s put him in the odi side sure that the answer!!!

Seriously Sibley a player you want when backs against the wall to save a test, but not when you want to win one.

In a decider winning takes all test at the end of a series he is the last player I would want opening the batting after the opposition have put a decent score in first innings the absolute last player

If we winning a series going into a last test and need to draw he would probably be the first player I want in the side
 
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Voice of fair play said:
Aye let’s put him in the odi side sure that the answer!!!

Seriously Sibley a player you want when backs against the wall to save a test, but not when you want to win one.

In a decider winning takes all test at the end of a series he is the last player I would want opening the batting after the opposition have put a decent score in first innings the absolute last player

If we winning a series going into a last test and need to draw he would probably be the first player I want in the side
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You need a player who can play both roles and adapt to the situation. Not sure Sibley can do that. Jennings can do that-and he's a much more rounded player now than when he last played for England.
 
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