Durhamfootman wrote:Durham say they intend to adopt the new England approach and Lees will be key to that if they do. If he comes out in the next 2 months flaying bowlers to all parts and scoring runs rapidly, I'd suggest he'd be back in the frame for an ashes opener slot pretty quickly
andy wrote:Genuinely worried about stokes....I was thinking maybe he won't be able to bowl and just be a batter only...but the way he was trying to bat on that one knee in the test series was worrying...year or two left of Ben at his best at the most?
alfie wrote:But what has this really have to do with Stokes ? He still averages about 36 with the bat and 32 the ball. Compare , say , Botham : 33 and 28 respectively and he doesn't come off too badly I'd have thought.
alfie wrote:Interesting choice of John Crawley as a comparison - though I would submit that comparing figures in this case is a little pointless as he and Stokes performed radically different roles in their teams : what is "good" for an all rounder might be seen as somewhat less so for a top order bat
alfie wrote:But he did (Crawley), I think it is fair to say , suffer from the lack of a media fan club - which caused his relatively ordinary but hardly awful returns to be judged much more harshly than those of a couple of his contemporaries.d 32 the ball.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:alfie wrote:But he did (Crawley), I think it is fair to say , suffer from the lack of a media fan club - which caused his relatively ordinary but hardly awful returns to be judged much more harshly than those of a couple of his contemporaries.d 32 the ball.
Crawley was fast tracked into the England side after doing well at school and university, and was hugely hyped, and talked of as an England captain. Before he had done anything. Of course, when he wasn't superman, the press moved on to someone else. Crawley had plenty of chances. I don't think there are any what-ifs there. His technique wasn't great. Fletcher even brought him back for another go.
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