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Starts Wednesday, can't wait. Fearful but quietly optimistic that we can take the urn back. Would be happy to go into the final test drawn tbh. Anyway here's something to get the juices flowing;
I've seen some qpr threads swing to and fro in the past but this takes the biscuit. The confidence of a series victory after the first test to now getting thrashed and the team in disarray.
Still lots of cricket to be played. Establish a couple of partnerships and a drop of rain and you're back in action.
I think that we'll dig in tomorrow. We bat down to 9/10 so there's still plenty left to contribute. I reckon that we'll put up a lot more fight than Oz did last Saturday, when they showed no guts at all.
Cook and Stokes showed the pitch is still decent to bat on so we do have a chance
Need another 281 to avoid the follow on which should be doable with our long batting line up
Rain forcast for Sunday which will also help just need to bat properly tomorrow and not get skittled for 150
For the next test need to change the team as Lyth doesn't look good enough to me
I would go Hales to open with Bell 3 , root 4 , Ballance 5 , Stokes , Butler , Ali etc
Stokes has effectively been an opening batsman here so why not give him a go? As you say, Lyth isn't up to it, and if Taylor comes in or maybe Bairstow as a batsman only it's hardly weaker is it?
The Aussies were under prepared and complacent for the first Test. They have rapidly replaced their under performers, something we never do, and are now clearly the superior side. Our top order is frankly shocking and has been for a while. Players like Bell, Ballance and Lyth would have been replaced long ago had they been in the Aussie side but we continue to keep playing them despite their obvious deficiencies. They have also cottoned on to the fact that we will be preparing slow pitches in an attempt to negate their pace bowlers, so they are simply taking the pitch out of the equation by bowling very full, and most of our batters cannot deal with those kind of deliveries at their pace. And by preparing featherbed pitches that also affects our own bowlers who then simply cannot bowl teams out without the right pitch and conditions. A lot of Sunday is likely to be lost to rain but even so the Aussies have this game in the bag. I can't see how we can win another Test in the series unless there are real changes made.
I've a funny feeling somehow that when it's our turn to bat that their bowlers will make it look a slightly different wicket.
Hate to say I told you so. It's happened so many times in the past, opposition bats first, wicket looks like the flattest featherbed you've ever seen, England's bowling looks toothless and when it's our turn to bat it suddenly looks like a minefield.
First session tomorrow is crucial. Lose more than a couple of wickets and we're staring down the barrel of an innings and plenty defeat.
The Aussies were under prepared and complacent for the first Test. They have rapidly replaced their under performers, something we never do, and are now clearly the superior side. Our top order is frankly shocking and has been for a while. Players like Bell, Ballance and Lyth would have been replaced long ago had they been in the Aussie side but we continue to keep playing them despite their obvious deficiencies. They have also cottoned on to the fact that we will be preparing slow pitches in an attempt to negate their pace bowlers, so they are simply taking the pitch out of the equation by bowling very full, and most of our batters cannot deal with those kind of deliveries at their pace. And by preparing featherbed pitches that also affects our own bowlers who then simply cannot bowl teams out without the right pitch and conditions. A lot of Sunday is likely to be lost to rain but even so the Aussies have this game in the bag. I can't see how we can win another Test in the series unless there are real changes made.
' They have rapidly replaced their under performers'
Hardly. Why is Clarke still in the side let alone captain? Perhaps they don't have any youngsters coming through apart from T20/IPL wannabees?
It took them long enough to decide that Watson wasn't a test player.]
Frankly I think that this England side has rather more dangling between its legs than some of you guys.
The Aussies were under prepared and complacent for the first Test. They have rapidly replaced their under performers, something we never do, and are now clearly the superior side. Our top order is frankly shocking and has been for a while. Players like Bell, Ballance and Lyth would have been replaced long ago had they been in the Aussie side but we continue to keep playing them despite their obvious deficiencies. They have also cottoned on to the fact that we will be preparing slow pitches in an attempt to negate their pace bowlers, so they are simply taking the pitch out of the equation by bowling very full, and most of our batters cannot deal with those kind of deliveries at their pace. And by preparing featherbed pitches that also affects our own bowlers who then simply cannot bowl teams out without the right pitch and conditions. A lot of Sunday is likely to be lost to rain but even so the Aussies have this game in the bag. I can't see how we can win another Test in the series unless there are real changes made.
It would have been hard to replace Lyth long ago as he only made his debut less than two months ago. In his three previous tests, he's already made a century. Who are you going to replace him with? Trott? Robson? Compton? Carberry? Trescothick? Give him a chance.
It would have been hard to replace Lyth long ago as he only made his debut less than two months ago. In his three previous tests, he's already made a century. Who are you going to replace him with? Trott? Robson? Compton? Carberry? Trescothick? Give him a chance.
Lyth looks like a bottle job.. He's got talent but I say get rid...another opener who can't cut it.
ADAM L YTH, any chance you could simply fu ck off you absolute cnt ?, wilf slack could do a better job
take care now,
discodroid.
xx
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Wonder if he plays football if so QPR should sign him. Opening batsman impersonating being a cricketer. We have had many impersonations of footballers over the years at Loftus Road.
wouldnt mind Finn coming in for wood next test, he looked more knackerd than greyfriars bobby last season.
Rashid to come in as well, move moheen ali up the order as well as ben stokes. alex hales might be worth a look at at the top of the order, and jamie overton at somerst as well.
the selectors will probably recall tim bresnsen , martyn moxon and arnie sidebottom.
they do love a yorkie.
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"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
Moeen is very weak against the short ball. Can't bump him up to the top order against this attack and a new ball.
Drop Lyth, get Compton back in - best technical too order player around Drop Balance - get James Taylor in - pedigree over several seasons and showed he has the gonads to stand up to this attack given how he batted (at 3) down under in the ODI series (on quicker wickets) Bell gets one more Test, then Bairstow deserves another chance. He's in great form and Morgan is not. I want to see Finn back too. He's in good form for Middx and reportedly bowled very sharply in his last outing. I think he's quicker and gets more bounce than Wood. Harsh because Wood has bowled quite well...the issue in this Test with our bowling is how dreadful Jimmy has been.
Moeen is very weak against the short ball. Can't bump him up to the top order against this attack and a new ball.
Drop Lyth, get Compton back in - best technical too order player around Drop Balance - get James Taylor in - pedigree over several seasons and showed he has the gonads to stand up to this attack given how he batted (at 3) down under in the ODI series (on quicker wickets) Bell gets one more Test, then Bairstow deserves another chance. He's in great form and Morgan is not. I want to see Finn back too. He's in good form for Middx and reportedly bowled very sharply in his last outing. I think he's quicker and gets more bounce than Wood. Harsh because Wood has bowled quite well...the issue in this Test with our bowling is how dreadful Jimmy has been.
agree with every aspect of that post.
aw fk..6 down..
"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
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