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sussexpob wrote:He went on tour with the Lions to South Africa, he played for Yorkshire in the MCC game in Dubai, he then played in a two test series vs New Zealand and three county games before the Australia game. So in 2015 before the Ashes series he played 8 games..... Sussex played their 9th FC match of the season during the First test. Not sure you can say playing was an issue, he played from early May basically all the way to July I would guess judging on how many games he played..... how many games does he need to play?

Sorry, whatever excuse you give, averaging 12 in a 5 match series at the start of your career indicates all I need to know about him. He was utterly rubbish, I have literally no positives. I see no reason to continue this experiment.

Making_Splinters wrote:
It's often a case when players are picked based on the previous season that they're not actually in form coming into the team.

We've seen even with very experianced players that once the form goes south it can be very difficult to get it back while playing International cricket, let alone for a player whose got so few games under his belt.

Making_Splinters wrote:

sussexpob wrote:He went on tour with the Lions to South Africa, he played for Yorkshire in the MCC game in Dubai, he then played in a two test series vs New Zealand and three county games before the Australia game. So in 2015 before the Ashes series he played 8 games..... Sussex played their 9th FC match of the season during the First test. Not sure you can say playing was an issue, he played from early May basically all the way to July I would guess judging on how many games he played..... how many games does he need to play?

Sorry, whatever excuse you give, averaging 12 in a 5 match series at the start of your career indicates all I need to know about him. He was utterly rubbish, I have literally no positives. I see no reason to continue this experiment.

He's played 12 first class games this season from what I can tell, 7 of which have been Tests and 3 of which haven't been in the UK.

It's often a case when players are picked based on the previous season that they're not actually in form coming into the team.

We've seen even with very experianced players that once the form goes south it can be very difficult to get it back while playing International cricket, let alone for a player whose got so few games under his belt.

As I said above, I think Lyth needs to go back to Yorkshire and rebuild his game. I wouldn't be suprised to see him back playing for England again in the future.

braveneutral wrote:They will release a name on the hour every hour until Jack Bauer makes himself available for international selection.

Alviro Patterson wrote: Lyth was grossly underprepared for the summer internationals. Between the MCC Champion County match and the 1st New Zealand test, Lyth played in one CC game against Hampshire (Yorkshire had a bye week in early May). Between New Zealand and Australia, Lyth played a further two CC matches against Middlesex and Notts.

All being well Lyth can get some valuable time at the crease in Yorkshire's final two matches before the winter tours.