Alviro Patterson wrote:Dr Robert wrote:
Teams need a balance between test and 50 over players. For instance, Bell or Cook is ok, but maybe not both.
Absolutely, if England are to stand a chance of winning next years World Cup then the starting XI must only consist one of the two.
backfootpunch wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:Dr Robert wrote:
Teams need a balance between test and 50 over players. For instance, Bell or Cook is ok, but maybe not both.
Absolutely, if England are to stand a chance of winning next years World Cup then the starting XI must only consist one of the two.
look at our bowling, we will have jimmy in a format that isnt his best, an unfit stuart broad, a few young inexperienced seamers and james tredwell
we have no chance of winning the world cup with that bowling, no matter who our batsmen are
in fact the state of our bowling is the main reason cook shouldnt be in the team, we need a line up that can consistently post/chase down scores of above or around 300
with an opener who cant score off the front foot it is difficult to chase down 300+ as you are always behind the rate
hopeforthebest wrote:I think Luke Wright's current form places him ahead of Taylor, he's a fine batsman who seems finally to have found consistancy which is not Taylors strong point.
backfootpunch wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:Dr Robert wrote:
Teams need a balance between test and 50 over players. For instance, Bell or Cook is ok, but maybe not both.
Absolutely, if England are to stand a chance of winning next years World Cup then the starting XI must only consist one of the two.
look at our bowling, we will have jimmy in a format that isnt his best, an unfit stuart broad, a few young inexperienced seamers and james tredwell
we have no chance of winning the world cup with that bowling, no matter who our batsmen are
in fact the state of our bowling is the main reason cook shouldnt be in the team, we need a line up that can consistently post/chase down scores of above or around 300
with an opener who cant score off the front foot it is difficult to chase down 300+ as you are always behind the rate
bhaveshgor wrote:backfootpunch wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:Dr Robert wrote:
Teams need a balance between test and 50 over players. For instance, Bell or Cook is ok, but maybe not both.
Absolutely, if England are to stand a chance of winning next years World Cup then the starting XI must only consist one of the two.
look at our bowling, we will have jimmy in a format that isnt his best, an unfit stuart broad, a few young inexperienced seamers and james tredwell
we have no chance of winning the world cup with that bowling, no matter who our batsmen are
in fact the state of our bowling is the main reason cook shouldnt be in the team, we need a line up that can consistently post/chase down scores of above or around 300
with an opener who cant score off the front foot it is difficult to chase down 300+ as you are always behind the rate
I always believed batting is more important in ODI you can easily make up the crap bowling with extra runs.
India being a prime example here won lots of games with *modded* bowlers.
rich1uk wrote:hopeforthebest wrote:I think Luke Wright's current form places him ahead of Taylor, he's a fine batsman who seems finally to have found consistancy which is not Taylors strong point.
would that be the luke wright that averages 33 in this years 50 over competition compared to the james taylor averaging over 40
the luke wright who has a career list A average of under 30 compared to the james taylor that has a career average over 50 ?
you don't get a career average over 50 in list A cricket , when having played 100 games by being inconsistent
hopeforthebest wrote:
You didn't notice that I talk about current form.
shankycricket wrote:Anderson is very underrated in ODIs actually. His stats (both home and away) post the 2011 World Cup debacle are excellent and unlike in 2011, he won't be going into the World Cup on the back of a draining 5 Test series. I expect him to do well. If Finn can get into some form, he is a world class ODI bowler (unlike Tests where he has always been a lottery) and in Gurney, they seem to have finally found the much vaunted left armer. He looks a decent ODI bowler to me. Jordan also looks a better limited overs bowler than a Test bowler and Tredwell is one of the better ODI spinners in the world. So even accounting for the uncertainty over Broad (and he should be back for the tri series that precedes the WC), thats a pretty decent, albeit not great bowling attack.
Get rid of Cook and they'll be fine. I see Cook as the elephant in the room here. Not only will he fail to get the big runs but his slow coach approach might just put added pressure on Hales (if he's picked, which he probably won't be) Ballance and co to be overly aggressive, leading to their downfall.
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