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JCRD

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So this participation test - can they just pick 11 guys from the crowd to participate? Perfect opportunity to practice the preach
 

mpickard2087

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To be honest fans and pundits should have to put up with this, again and again and again. They were all for obviously idiotic stuff like Roy as a test opener etc. and getting loads of the one day players in the team. Unfortunately so were the selectors......

Have no idea how we've got to the point where we have so few batsmen that Stokes/Buttler are in the top 5, that just says it all. But now we're selecting Buttler as a specialist bat, but have no faith in him so he's coming in at 7, what's the point of him then?

There needs to be a full scale enquiry about red ball cricket - across the domestic level about the lack of batsmen, spinners etc. being produced but also with the international team selection policies and performance - but they're not going to do anything and so it will continue. Too busy setting up a new gimmicky competition to chase the money.

18 wickets for 110 runs in this match currently, so lets see if the Aussies will continue the trend and give us a sniff......

Probably Warner 150no at stumps. :meh:
 

SargeantMeatCurtains

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Just to put this into context, 80 overs have been bowled in this match. We’re still in day one territory and Australia are beginning their second innings.
 

dagraham

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Ok, perhaps it's wrong to make such a generalisation based on 1 innings, but an innings like this has been coming for quite a while. Whether that's a mentality thing, or an attacking intent thing, or a culture thing, I don't know...but there have been enough warnings about an innings like this for all too long, and not a lot has been done to rectify it.

Apparently it's the 4th time since the start of 2018 that we've been bowled out for less than 100.
 

WiganSpur

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Aug 31, 2012
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Of course there are wider scale issues, but this is also an issue with culture and mentality. How can being bowled out for under 100 be acceptable under any circumstances? Heads must start rolling, that includes Root as captain.
 

jazz15c

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I remember someone saying before the series started that the winning team will be the one whose batting line-up is the least shit. Bang on really.
 

Sandros Shiny Head

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Aug 20, 2013
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We could bowl them out by stumps and need 250 over 3 days and you already know we won’t go about it the right way and be done by tea tomorrow
 
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