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TBH it pisses in the face of all those who have started the county season. The guy has batted in the lower order for most of his career and averages 31 at test level.

Hard pass for me, but, if it comes off for Ed Smith and the jazzer brigade he'll look like a genius.

Malan now gets to see how hard it is walking out before the first over is complete. Good luck to him!
 
MrWoolley

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Gutted for Jack Leach but chuffed for Dom Bess. Leaves Somerset a bit short on bowlers though.
 
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Should have been Virdi over Bess for me, Bess has only got one wicket so far this season. Virdi has been in decent form. Glad Vince is out, think Stoneman is lucky and under pressure. Hopefully Root at 3 and Malan 4 to break up the left handers. Buttler an interesting choice but sort of a kick in the bollocks for Foakes who has started the season very well.
 
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Apart from a new spinner, pretty boring selection tbh. Not that there are many standouts to pick from admittedly.


(As oft repeated) Such an urgent need to fix red ball cricket in this country.
 
Archibald&Crooks

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Our attack could run through the Pakistan batting like a dose of salts in these conditions.

Unfortunately, any attack could run through our batting like a dose of salts in ANY conditions :D
 
'O Zio

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Vinny_Sammways_left_peg said:
Plans to remove the coin toss in Test cricket have been backed by the England and Wales Cricket Board. The International Cricket Council (ICC) will discuss the idea later this month as it considers ways to reduce home advantage. It could introduce the change for the new World Test Championship, which starts with next summer's Ashes series between England and Australia.

Thoughts?

Killer line comes at the end of the article ...
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So they're planning to get rid of it so that there will be more away wins....even though it's been proven to not increase the number of away wins, in fact they've gone down in CC since it was scrapped...right oh then.
 
Pellshek

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Nice weather

Nice weather

** Some months go by**

Nice weather

Nice weather

Nice weather

**First Test**

RAIN!
 
al_pacino

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Got tickets for Sunday so a little weather about wont hurt our prospects of a decent day. Wouldn't mind it being nice then though.
 
Finchyid

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Vinny_Sammways_left_peg said:
Plans to remove the coin toss in Test cricket have been backed by the England and Wales Cricket Board. The International Cricket Council (ICC) will discuss the idea later this month as it considers ways to reduce home advantage. It could introduce the change for the new World Test Championship, which starts with next summer's Ashes series between England and Australia.

Thoughts?

Killer line comes at the end of the article ...
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Never heard anything so stupid in all my life.....game has gone mad.
 
Archibald&Crooks

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Surprised we won the toss and chose to bat. I would have thought conditions were perfect to bowl this morning. I guess we will soon find out.
 
Pellshek

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Obviously we set Cook's over/under at 14. If he gets through that, the new over/under is 231.
 
Archibald&Crooks

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I'm going to reserve my judgement on our decision to bat first until we've had a bowl. I don't want to jump the gun on calling Root a useless cherub faced ****.
 
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