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2019 Cricket

The reverse sweep ????


I remember watching Nic Pothas' younger brother hit a couple of reverse sweeps onto the tennis courts at Sawbridgeworth from the non-strikers end many years back and thinking the game was changing, hard to realise just how different some of these kids would be approaching batting nowadays!
 
this game is nothing like modern test cricket (bar an hour of Stokes earlier), just no pace in the deck will make it easy for as such a limited captain as Root to not get beat if worst happens!
Again I agree I was just pointing out should they want to have a bit of fun and try for a bit then the rate isn't massive. I also agree Root is limited as a captain. Who would be your captain of preference? I can see England coming up two wickets short
 
Again I agree I was just pointing out should they want to have a bit of fun and try for a bit then the rate isn't massive. I also agree Root is limited as a captain. Who would be your captain of preference? I can see England coming up two wickets short


id have gone to broad short term and looked to develop one longer term, its a pretty limited pool to pick from though, doesnt help most of them play so little county cricket
 
id have gone to broad short term and looked to develop one longer term, its a pretty limited pool to pick from though, doesnt help most of them play so little county cricket

Burns is looking the most likely candidate at the moment - not sure who is the Lions skipper , Gregory was in the summer but just like Abell I don’t think he will get a test spot
 
Burns is looking the most likely candidate at the moment - not sure who is the Lions skipper , Gregory was in the summer but just like Abell I don’t think he will get a test spot


Burns not playing rest of this tour or Sri Lanka on all accounts, going under the knife and going to have to play some county cricket before the WI tests I guess to prove his fitness again :(
 
Well if you take out the gift from Faf that was a pretty ordinary session for England, going to need to use the new ball well after lunch. Malan been absolutely superb for the Saffers
 
de Kock and Du Plessis need to be taken behind the sheds and have seven shades of khaki knocked out of them. Stupid shots to nothing balls in this situation. Pair of Jeremy Corbyns them!
 
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