West Indies v England, 3rd Test, Gros Inlet, 9-13 February, 2019

So what magic tricks do England have up their sleeves?

Strauss*
Cook
Trott
Pietersen
Bell
Collingwood
Bairstow
Stokes
Swann
Broad
Anderson

Any arguments?

skully wrote:So what magic tricks do England have up their sleeves?

Tricks?

Music almost perfected.

Written by Julius Fuc-*i*-k ...

I'm dropping Curran for either Wood or Leach, depending on the pitch. Curran does not have the pace or yet the skill-set to be a threat away from English conditions.

Noddy suspended for slow over-rate apparently... they will miss his batting, bowling and reviewing skills (surely he has to follow his namesakes John and Vanburn into umpiring post-playing career...)

beamer wrote:Noddy suspended for slow over-rate apparently... they will miss his batting, bowling and reviewing skills (surely he has to follow his namesakes John and Vanburn into umpiring post-playing career...)

Wonderful from ICC once again. Punish the biggest superstar of this series for over rate in a game that didn't last 3 days. Now watch the spectators flock to ground and TV ratings soar.

Basil wrote:I'm dropping Curran for either Wood or Leach, depending on the pitch. Curran does not have the pace or yet the skill-set to be a threat away from English conditions.

Jimmy Lite should bide his time.

I think he’s more new Dominic Cork, really... has the infectious enthusiasm and ability to turn a game, but perhaps not the pace or guile to get wickets when the ball doesn’t swing.

Obviously, he’s only 20, plenty of time to develop all aspects of his game, even though he’s not likely to ever be express pace. Too many promising youngsters don’t press on, though, so it’s up to him to find his real identity as a cricketer long term.

I wonder if the Poms will receive yet another Gros Inlet (up the dinger) from the Ganjas. Holder is a loss.

Surely this wasn't Holder's first offence?

Prolly not Mr K. Will obviously hurt the Windies chances of a blackwash.

Bumpity

Shirley, between punching dirty nappies, Monkeh can give us his take on this match.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/25953448/jennings-foakes-england-chaos-two-tests-ashes

sounds like their selection policy is as diabolical as ours

Makes sense in terms of the balance of the side, but I don’t think either Jennings or Denly are up to it, and I’d have dropped Buttler or Bairstow over Foakes.

Expecting another shitshow from the England batting line-up in any case. One or two files to be stamped NTPFEA(ITAL) by the end of it, perhaps.

Foakes has got to be dead unlucky or at least very hardly done by.

If he was an Aussie under The Gnome's tutelage he'd have at least another 20 Tests to prove himself.

skully wrote:Foakes has got to be dead unlucky or at least very hardly done by.

If he was an Aussie under The Gnome's tutelage he'd have at least another 20 Tests to prove himself.

The selection process is in chaos. Dropping Foakes is bad enough, but Jennings? FFS how many openers are there who are better players of spin than seam? 

Basil wrote:

skully wrote:Foakes has got to be dead unlucky or at least very hardly done by.

If he was an Aussie under The Gnome's tutelage he'd have at least another 20 Tests to prove himself.

The selection process is in chaos. Dropping Flakes is bad enough, but Jennings? FFS how many openers are there who are better players of spin than seam? 

We haven’t got any other openers in the squad, in case you hadn’t noticed...

I’d sooner have sent Bairstow or Buttler up there, or even one of the bowling all-rounders, with said player just told that they can have a slog. Ideal situation to try something really radical.

beamer wrote:

Basil wrote:

skully wrote:Foakes has got to be dead unlucky or at least very hardly done by.

If he was an Aussie under The Gnome's tutelage he'd have at least another 20 Tests to prove himself.

The selection process is in chaos. Dropping Flakes is bad enough, but Jennings? FFS how many openers are there who are better players of spin than seam? 

We haven’t got any other openers in the squad, in case you hadn’t noticed...

I’d sooner have sent Bairstow or Buttler up there, or even one of the bowling all-rounders, with said player just told that they can have a slog. Ideal situation to try something really radical.

I'd sort of noticed the lack of batting options but thanks for pointing it out though. There was still no case to be made for recalling Jennings.

Incorrect date on the match heading again

Darren Sammy Stadium, that’s certainly cheaping ground naming honours...

Meanwhile the Poms are now 2fer as Burns departs.

... and now Denly goes ....3/69

More starts, but nobody going on.

Root needs to give up the captaincy or drop himself down to 6.

England haven't lost a wicket for almost TEN OVERS!!