Arthur Crabtree wrote:I'm not taking the final two Tests as my last reference point. The team was in complete disarray by Melbourne, and sensible selection had been utterly lost. I'm not going to see Ballance as a continuity selection any more than I am Borthwick, Bairstow and Rankin. Taylor has made an irrefutable case for selection through the accepted channels. In Sydney, the England team had lost its mind.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Cook/Carberry/Root/Bell/Taylor/Stokes/Prior/Jordan/Broad/Anderson/Panesar.
Waitrose Lions:
Robson/Chopra/Moeen/Vince/Ballance/Woakes/Buttler/Borthwick/Finn/Kerrigan/Rankin.
ianp1970 wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:Cook/Carberry/Root/Bell/Taylor/Stokes/Prior/Jordan/Broad/Anderson/Panesar.
Waitrose Lions:
Robson/Chopra/Moeen/Vince/Ballance/Woakes/Buttler/Borthwick/Finn/Kerrigan/Rankin.
How about an old fashioned probables versus possibles trial game?
Making_Splinters wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:I'm not taking the final two Tests as my last reference point. The team was in complete disarray by Melbourne, and sensible selection had been utterly lost. I'm not going to see Ballance as a continuity selection any more than I am Borthwick, Bairstow and Rankin. Taylor has made an irrefutable case for selection through the accepted channels. In Sydney, the England team had lost its mind.
Ballance is in blistering form, and made the tour unlike Taylor but now is suddenly below him again?
You're sounding awfully like Flower here.
Durhamfootman wrote:Brooks is in for the unthreatening Anderson
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Tom Smith gets Woakes in the head to head for the heritage all rounders role. Stokes shakes his plaster of paris fist at the sky.
ianp1970 wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:Cook/Carberry/Root/Bell/Taylor/Stokes/Prior/Jordan/Broad/Anderson/Panesar.
Waitrose Lions:
Robson/Chopra/Moeen/Vince/Ballance/Woakes/Buttler/Borthwick/Finn/Kerrigan/Rankin.
How about an old fashioned probables versus possibles trial game?
hopeforthebest wrote:Sometime ago I proposed that an England v England Lions game should be in the calendar, perhaps replacing the CC champions v MCC fixture in Dubai.
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