This has been woeful, surely Anderson and abroad still have a role to play for the near future at least.
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It’s fair to say that only Saqib has made a claim for a spot in the side. The rest have been atrocious.
Well, this has gone well
I just love English fans. Wish y’all were this self deprecating in footie too.
We're like this when it comes to the national football team too, don't worry.
Crawley out once again to the straight drive.
Even worse from Root
Chance we might actually be able to win this. I hope so anyway.
Should have reversed the order
FFS. Making Kyle Mayers out to be Curtly Ambrose.
1 win in 17 matches.
5 series defeats in a row. This is worse than the 90s.
If there was anyone else even remotely competent that wanted the job Root would no longer be captain.
5 series defeats in a row. This is worse than the 90s.
If there was anyone else even remotely competent that wanted the job Root would no longer be captain.
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What is the point of the England top order? Honestly we couldn't have performed much worse if we just randomly chose members of the Barmy Army to open our batting.
Imagine if that Mayers played in the first two games FFS
Curtly is nearly 60 and he could still get this lot out.
3 years ago this dude was playing domestic cricket here in Norway and smacking amateur bowlers all over the park. Did not expect him to turn into peak Ambrose against England in tests.I know of a guy who plays cricket for Norway forget his name but left handed bat opener played for a team in Sussex.
Think his name is Walid come to think of it.
When Lees decides to put his shots away, which has happened a lot this series (somewhat understandably) he is one of the most miserably slow scoring batsmen I've seen.
Strike rate currently a touch over 17.
Strike rate currently a touch over 17.
Hah, small world! Yeah he's a decent batsman relative to the level here. Facilities are a bit different here compared to England, there are 5 grounds shared between around 100 teams.
He makes Dom Sibley look like Virender Sehwag.
Are the teams majority South Asian?
Grass wickets at the grounds? Or just synthetic is that what you call the astro turf like wicket?
Crawley has the right mindset but needs to learn to play himself in. Openers should be putting some pressure on the bowlers not just defending.
I think Michael Holding currently would get them out.
Sometimes. Think batting for your life is clearly the way to go on this pitch, to be fair.
Even just to get the scoreboard ticking with singles would help.
This summer Stokes needs to move back down number 6 and Bairstow to number 5.
Yup. Some English/Australian teams too. Cricket has the same problem everywhere, it's mostly just expats from test nations playing it. They have to introduce it to the Olympics if they really want to expand the game.
Not sure what it's called but it's definitely astro turf-ish. Zero chance of grass wickets with 10+ games per week on every ground. Not to mention we have about two days above 20 degrees per 'summer'
No words to describe that run out.
Well, losing this might mean finally putting Root out of his misery as captain.
If we had somehow scraped a series win here it would have papered over the cracks and they could have hailed it as a new beginning: he would have certainly stayed on for the summer test schedule, potentially beyond.
For the sake of his own sanity, he now needs to call it quits and just concentrate on doing his job with the bat. Let someone else carry the burden for this utter shit-show.
If we had somehow scraped a series win here it would have papered over the cracks and they could have hailed it as a new beginning: he would have certainly stayed on for the summer test schedule, potentially beyond.
For the sake of his own sanity, he now needs to call it quits and just concentrate on doing his job with the bat. Let someone else carry the burden for this utter shit-show.
I know he won’t get it as the new regime don’t fancy him but If Stokes doesn’t want to be captain is Broad not worth a go?. He’s still one of our best bowlers, good brain and won’t mind ruffling a few feathers, and at least when we have days like this his shithousery would be fun.
Jesus Christ.
Being a captain you have to command respect and Broad certainly doesn’t.
Always homesick.
We could do with an opener who's difficult to get out, even if he scores slowly. It's what we've been lacking.
I think it's reached the point Stokes is going to have to do it. Which is a bad idea and will end badly but there's a small possibility that by the time it does someone else will have managed to secure their place in the team sufficiently for a go.
Well it's not exactly going well now, so, actually, it's already ended badly.
Leach and Mahmood to save the day again.
Yeah, results can't get worse. Stokes can though. We could permanently break him, I think, by doing it. But at this point the biggest question around the team other than 'how can they be this bad?' is 'are we absolutely sure Ben can't do it?' and I don't think that's sustainable either.