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Old 07-22-2015, 05:35 PM   #201
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draft some birds in from the England ladies team , they seem more competant .
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Old 07-24-2015, 06:49 PM   #202
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Ballance dropped and Bairstow in. Bairstow's scored a load of runs recently in the County Championship, but he was in the England set up a couple of years ago and couldnt cut it at Test level. Hopefully his technique has improved, otherwise his selction will make little difference to the piss poor batting performances.
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Very true but apart from Bairstow who else could they bring in ? Shame Bell didn't get the boot too
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Old 07-25-2015, 07:30 PM   #204
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Very true but apart from Bairstow who else could they bring in ? Shame Bell didn't get the boot too
I would have went for James Taylor who IMO should have been given a longer run in the Test set up than he had. I reckon he has as much ability as Root. But there's nothing better than seeing a player dropped, go away improve their technique, come back and weigh in heavily. Gooch comes to mind. Hopefully Bairstow has upped his game and proves it.
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I would have went for James Taylor who IMO should have been given a longer run in the Test set up than he had. I reckon he has as much ability as Root. But there's nothing better than seeing a player dropped, go away improve their technique, come back and weigh in heavily. Gooch comes to mind. Hopefully Bairstow has upped his game and proves it.
Hard to think of an Aussie batsman that hasn't been through that. Makes them appreciate having a test berth. Look at Justin Langer. Dropped more times than a pair of knickers on soi 6, then scored more tons than Ian Chappell or Mark Waugh.
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In hindsight if KP had been picked doubt we'd be having this debate
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Weather forecast not looking too clever this week
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From what I've seen it looks not too bad as far as rain goes but it's put a fair bit down the last few days I'm suspecting a dead wicket and winning the toss could be a winner
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From what I've seen it looks not too bad as far as rain goes but it's put a fair bit down the last few days I'm suspecting a dead wicket and winning the toss could be a winner

Couldn't have been more wrong about the track !! Anderson taking the plaudits but Finn did a great job of roughing the Aussies up
I'm slightly worried about getting to see any play on day 4
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Bell was a fucking idiot getting out
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