Nighteyes
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Watched the highlights and what a great day of cricket! Fantastic from Jonhson as well. Erratic bowler but use him the the right way and he's a great weapon to have
I've said it for a while that Cook is a negative captain and England doesn't play to it's full potential.
I think England need to find another captain also to get most out of Cook the batsman. He can potentially be the best English batsmen ever.
feck off Tremlett.
Stupid cnut.
Pressure building, economical bowling and you go and bowl a bouncer at medium pace first ball. Can't believe he's in the side.
The media seems to be going overboard.
Calling for Trott to be dropped -- am rather undecided about that, but England don't seem to have batsmen ready for test cricket in the reserves.
Saying Swann might be finished is just extremely knee-jerk.
2009: 275 runs, at an average of 55
2010: 1,325 at 66.25
2011: 365 at 40.55
2012: 1,005 at 38.65
2013: 793 at 37.76 (including current Test)
Not entirely. He hasn't been at the level he was for years now. He's still the best we have but if there was an alternative for the test side (he's still very good in ODI's) I think they'd be pushing him. There isn't really, though.Saying Swann might be finished is just extremely knee-jerk.
It's too early, I think. If he fails this badly in the next two or three, he could be dropped. I'd expect him to be given the whole series to turn it round, though, given it's not great for a young player to be thrown in to an Ashes series.I don't think calling for Trott to be dropped is going overboard to be honest, I think he should be.
This isn't bad form, this is 3 years now of pretty poor scores, and what's worrying is they're getting worse. Of course there's the argument there's not a batsmen ready to step in, but I really find it hard to see how someone can do worse than Trott is at the moment. When he comes in everyone knows there's a wicket waiting to happen, it gives them a boost, puts a load of pressure on the batsmen alongside him.
If it was just a genuine bad run of form then stick with him, but Trott, at the age of 32, is not going to correct from a weakness by the end of the series that has been glaringly obvious since the summer and if anything he's even more susceptible to it. I think it was a mistake not to bring Compton really, he could have slotted in nicely. He's been treated unfairly, he had a dreadful time of it in the home New Zealand series but he also got back to back hundreds away, and had a good county season. In India though he didn't score highly he did at least stick around for a long time allowing us to have a respectable start to our innings.