bigfluffylemon wrote:Here's a wacky idea that doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone (and probably will get shot down immediately due to the almighty dollar), but from a cricketing perspective, why do we need a 5th test?
that's commie talk mister!
bigfluffylemon wrote:Here's a wacky idea that doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone (and probably will get shot down immediately due to the almighty dollar), but from a cricketing perspective, why do we need a 5th test?
sussexpob wrote:England finally get out for a game. Lions score 220-4, and all of England's specialist frontline bowling options draw a blank for the day.
Lions batters forced to retire at 20-30 runs, save for Crawley who got out in the 40s (and is the only Ashes Squad batter in the Lions team, no doubt to give him a chance to play), and England giving a shared distribution of the bowling with a couple of Lions pacers who got thrown the ball while England's actual pace options were given very limited overs.
I cant really get the thinking with that. With England's batting woes in full swing, it makes more sense to allow the top Lions prospects to bat as long as possible and stake a claim on some form and quality, because they will be needed if the batting line gets shredded in the first few games..... and surely from a bowling perspective, you (a) want your seamers having a decent go rather than just one long spell/two short ones.... and you also want them bowing at batsman playing well as a challenge, because they are going to have to get used to facing set batsman on these pitches and working out how to bowl to them.
If you didnt want a challenge or the Lions getting a decent go, nor the bowlers bowling anything worthwhile, why didnt they just get the England batting line up play vs the Lions bowlers, with a few spells thrown in for the frontline test players?
Its not like the way they have done it has any FC integrity or mimicks the pressure of a proper match.... if you are forcing people to retire after 20 runs and one team uses 8 bowlers, it aint anything more than a glorified net session anyway
GarlicJam wrote:James Anderson has been ruled out of the first test, with a calf strain.
Not going to make the camp happy, but no doubt it will make the selectors' job a bit easier - Wood, Woakes AND Broad.
GarlicJam wrote:Possibly Alfie. I'm going on what ABC sport reported.
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