Chris_Boro
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Innings defeat tomorrow then.
I think he is just one of a number of second rate spinner options at this level.The selectors much see something nobody else does.
Second worst bowling performance in test history for someone who has bowled 10 overs.I think he is just one of a number of second rate spinner options at this level.
He is very much a confidence player, which doesn’t bode at all well….Second worst bowling performance in test history for someone who has bowled 10 overs.
Feel for him but he bowled far too many gimmees
They'll be after him for the rest of the series now.
Parkinson has surely got to be given a chance. Bess is as hopeless.I think he is just one of a number of second rate spinner options at this level.
Bess is in the 18 man squad, Parkinson isnt so it won’t happen this series sadlyParkinson has surely got to be given a chance. Bess is as hopeless.
He's there with Lions , Can we change about the 18 1st team squad?Bess is in the 18 man squad, Parkinson isnt so it won’t happen this series sadly
The other thing with the selection was, it really took bowling first on that wicket out of the equation. Once Leach was selected if we won the toss we were always batting 1st and 3rd and hoping spin plays a factor in the 4th innings.They made on good point on the radio. Did they genuinely think they picked the best bowling line up for this test?
Or did they pick the bowling line up with one eye on the day/night tests so didn't pick Broad or Anderson (or both).
You have to go into the opening test of an ashes with the best 5 bowlers. You can't be thinking of 'saving them' when you could be 1 or 2 nil down.
Apart from Broads ability and ashes record he's all over warner and also has that 'needle' that really annoys the Australians. Just madness
Then again the real issue is batting. What can any bowling attack do with 147 'to work with'.
Yes definitely get the Anderson decision.The other thing with the selection was, it really took bowling first on that wicket out of the equation. Once Leach was selected if we won the toss we were always batting 1st and 3rd and hoping spin plays a factor in the 4th innings.
The Anderson decision I can get my head round as he is 39 and may struggle to play 2 tests on the spin, but there is a reason why, in the last 170 odd tests there have only been two that have not featured either Broad or Anderson (or both).
Who said he’s stepping down after this series?Root has now got to stand down from the Captancy. He leaving anyway at the end of this series. Deciding to bat after a rain soaked week in Brisbane is beyond belief.
Get Ben Stokes in now to do the job
That is a very good point 147 might be a great snooker score but it’s a flipping rubbish cricket scoreYes definitely get the Anderson decision.
Broad was baffling. He's usually had a public moan by now when he's been dropped. Then again usually comes back fit and fired up.
We could have a bowling line up of Muralitharan/Steyn/Akram/Walsh and Hadlee and you couldn't defend 147 (just picked 5 superb none Australian bowlers who may not actually fit together).