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Just posting to say - lol, England. Can't defend 300. Wtf. Drop the lost of them and start again, this goes double for the bowlers; we need proper one day specialist that aren't Jade Durnback.
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Mar 1, 2015 11:33
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Weren't England No.1 in all three formats not so long ago?
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Mar 9, 2015 12:40
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Airstream Driver posted:Just reading up on this and With just the one token white boy it does look dodge! But seriously its down to the testing in the UK is more stringent than else where. At one point the ecb begged the guy to be a bit loser and he said gently caress off
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Mar 11, 2015 16:28
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Who the gently caress is mark wood?
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Mar 18, 2015 18:42
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serious gaylord posted:You've got a point. England need to go over to the West Indies and absolutely dominate them to try and get some confidence back. That test side won't do that. Who do we take that will? JJ Roy? That left arm quick we used in practice down under? Finn?
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Mar 19, 2015 18:08
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Lionel Richie posted:Ballance/Bell/Root has been pretty decent in test cricket of late. The strange thing is bringing back Trott which will either break that up or they'll have him opening, because they won't have picked him to not play him. Cook/Trott opening partnership phwoar. As a bonus they can ruin Lyth at the same time. I'm taking it as trott opens with lyth at 6 with Jordan and Treadwell as the other two bowlers
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Mar 19, 2015 18:21
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Is Ali out the side because they worked out he is brown or do they have a quota system and a bit has been filled by Jordan they won't take another ethnic?
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Mar 19, 2015 18:59
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goatface posted:Would it be better for India to lose in the semi or the final? I think the semi. Nah, you want them to as close to victory as possible so that the fall is even greater. You want them to bowl first and be set 400 to win. You want kohli to put 150 on in 100 balls. You want dhoni to be there at the last ball, 6 to win. You want him to give it the helicopter. You want it to be sailing to the boundary. You want the Dan to be there. You want him to catch it. You want to see the tears.
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Mar 24, 2015 19:42
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Good old England, never change!
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Apr 13, 2015 15:10
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goatface posted:Bowling first was probably a pretty good plan to be honest. Cook, Trott, Ballance as the top three? Ain't more than a teaspoon of self-confidence between them. That would be balance with an average of 60? He might have been poo poo in Odis but that's because he don't give a poo poo about odis
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Apr 13, 2015 15:52
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goatface posted:See. loving spoonboying git
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Apr 13, 2015 16:32
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Who had utter collapse after bell and root went?
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Apr 14, 2015 16:00
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Wtf is there no tms?
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Apr 16, 2015 16:10
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Jesus, Balance is out if form and poo poo... Drop him asap
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Apr 16, 2015 23:21
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It'd be funny if cook missed out on his hundred because he ran out of partners
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May 1, 2015 21:06
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I get the feeling that, as he has now broken is duck, cock is going to push on and score lots of slow centuries for the next 5 years
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May 1, 2015 23:46
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We're going to lose this aren't we!
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May 2, 2015 21:27
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HIT. THE. loving. BALL.
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May 2, 2015 21:56
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Lionel Richie posted:Amid all the wanking themselves silly about James Anderson they've overlooked that in 2 out of 3 tests the bowlers have completely and utterly failed We've gone from having no batting but good bowling,now its the other way around. I like Ali but I'm worried about having a spinning all rounder, if he has a bad day with the ball you're more than usually hosed.
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May 3, 2015 22:35
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serious gaylord posted:Has KP been put back in the team yet? I know we arw joking but where would he play? I don't think he could work as an aggressive opener like the Warner or that Indian fella - sawag?. 3,4 and 5 are sorted. He could come in a 6 but would he be happy about that? Any lower would be just silly as he is not an alrounder.
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May 4, 2015 18:28
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Byolante posted:Aside from England being a boys club how is bell sorted. 1 big score, then 11, 1 and a pair in the final test is loving awful. A hundred and a fifty thank you very much. If you go back to the ashes in 2013 out of 35 innings he has past 50 in 13 of them. He is fine where he is just had a bad game. Form is temporary, class is forever.
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May 4, 2015 23:21
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serious gaylord posted:Strauss has had a meeting with KP and told him he'll never be picked for England again. This is disappointing but now Strauss will last about 6 months in that role as Vaughan will have the knives out as soon as possible and none of the sky lot liked him. Got a source for this rumour?
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May 11, 2015 23:04
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goatface posted:I don't think they have the necessary to do something like Cook, Lyth, Ballance, Pieterson, Bell, Root, Buttler, SPINNER, Jordan, Broad, Anderson. They'd just not get the wickets based on recent form. That is also unfair on Ali who is perfectly good with the bat. I agree we need a spinner and as much as I like Jordan he needs to be dropped for an express pace English Brett Lee
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May 12, 2015 15:40
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Shmoses posted:How do you pronounce that? Like 'wooss'? Wohkes or woakes
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May 17, 2015 20:19
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Drugs posted:also unlikely that the England lads will ever get out of supermax fashion prison for those sweaters I hear these are bad, has anyone got a picture?
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May 21, 2015 13:40
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Although we are in a strong position, I can't get hopes up, as this is the bit when we implode.
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Jul 10, 2015 22:08
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I'm going to show myself up here - how can a ball pitch outside off stump and still be lbw?
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Jul 13, 2015 15:20
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Well done to the Aussies, gently caress the MCC. We are going to utterly collapse when we come to bat, cook will struggle to get double figures, lyth will poo poo himself, gently caress knows what will happen with Balance and Bell is still a walking wicket. Granted Root will get a double but we'll be at least 100 runs behind at the end of the first innings.
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Jul 17, 2015 09:34
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Coucho Marx posted:So who, exactly, hosed up and ordered such a dead pitch? I actually feel a bit bad for the English players, coming off a game where they were praised and rewarded for playing positive, aggressive cricket, only to be forced back into defensive flat pitch bullshit next time around. Lord's has always been a road as its a private members club. He old differs that rule it like to see good stroke play and big scores, they are not really bothered about getting a result.
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Jul 17, 2015 10:13
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serious gaylord posted:I think thats the problem. Bell and Lyth aren't good enough right now but theres no-one to replace them. Drop Bell, bring in bairstow, rejig the order to put root at 3, balance at 4, stokes 5, bairstow 6 No idea what to do about the opener, do with go for another bloke who can sit there with cook and absorb 30 overs at 2.5 or do we get a basher in to take he pressure off cook?
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Jul 18, 2015 10:42
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Cook Hales Root (c) Stokes Balance Bairstow Buttler (wk) Ali Wood Broad Anderson I am getting worried about Anderson, I think he might be done too. His bowling has been ok but not great and his batting is laughable; his run out of Root and playing like a dick when Wood was on for a 50 are the best two examples.
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Jul 19, 2015 15:25
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goatface posted:Drop Ballance, stick Rashid in after Moeen. I want to give he a chance down the order first
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Jul 19, 2015 15:31
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If we drop ballance and Bell who is going to be the sitter in the middle order? If we have nothing but bashers we'll either make 600 or 60
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Jul 20, 2015 12:43
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Ripping 3 players out of the team would be madness when there is only 1 player who can realistically step into the team (bairstow). Everyone else is a gamble.
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Jul 20, 2015 12:51
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I like Bell, and I would call this resting him, not dripping him but we have to be honest and say it'll 18months before he is back in the team. At that point he will be 35 and we'll have to use him at 5. I agree that whomever we bring in as opener is going to be a gamble. Bairstow will be down the order, hopefully this gives him a bit of protection as by the time he comes out Root will be on a double ton.
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Jul 20, 2015 13:07
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Antifreeze Head posted:Bairstow? Nothing wrong with fancying an older woman
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Jul 21, 2015 17:30
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Why is tms blocked on the internet? Who has the rights?
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Jul 29, 2015 11:28
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Fanatic posted:The crowd have broken Johnson. He's like one of those computer game characters that has an amazing attack but once it's done he has to shut down
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Jul 30, 2015 14:06
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What dumb gently caress way do we think Anderson will get out to?
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Jul 30, 2015 14:23
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Burn Down Canberra posted:It's not that tricky. Test matches are first class matches but not all first class matches are test matches. Starc also had 99 as his top score in both tests and fc
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Jul 31, 2015 11:50
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