In Ashes Down Under ?

[bobw]

If we get thrashed and Root resigns then Stokes is the next cab off the rank. Far from ideal.

Please no. Stokes has enough on his plate already.
But if not Root or Stokes, who? Buttler ? Probably the next in line but is he worth a nailed-down place in the team?

They would take the usual route of appointing the next most experinece batsman. so that would be.........??

[nat]

If we get thrashed and Root resigns then Stokes is the next cab off the rank. Far from ideal.

Please no. Stokes has enough on his plate already.
But if not Root or Stokes, who? Buttler ? Probably the next in line but is he worth a nailed-down place in the team?

They would take the usual route of appointing the next most experinece batsman. so that would be.........??

Butter fingers Burns!

[bwildered]

 Like the theory that they get 400, and so do we.
 But sorry for repeating myself,  the practice is something very different.

[Oldhasbeen]

If we get thrashed and Root resigns then Stokes is the next cab off the rank. Far from ideal.

Please no. Stokes has enough on his plate already.
But if not Root or Stokes, who? Buttler ? Probably the next in line but is he worth a nailed-down place in the team?

They would take the usual route of appointing the next most experinece batsman. so that would be.........??

Butter fingers Burns!

Thanks for depressing me even more, Nat, just in case the Test score and Omicron weren't enough already.

[Andy]

Well, we might win.

[Andy]

Now we sit just above Bangladesh in the Test rankings: a right bunch of rankers on and off the pitch.

[nat]

Now we sit just above Bangladesh in the Test rankings: a right bunch of rankers on and off the pitch.

All that money on central contracts (and damaging the county game) has been well worth it then.

[Andy]

Now we sit just above Bangladesh in the Test rankings: a right bunch of rankers on and off the pitch.

All that money on central contracts (and damaging the county game) has been well worth it then.

More likely the over emphasis upon white ball cricket, whilst red ball is played in late winter and early Autumn.

[Oldhasbeen]

Are we watching Rory Burns and/or Jos Buttler playing their last Tests?

[vim]

That Butler could not catch Covid at a Anti-Vaxer convention.

[LeedsExile]

Hameed should not have been recalled and Buttler never has been either a test class batsman(not batter!) or keeper. Bring in Crawley and Foakes for next test please.

[Oldhasbeen]

Bring in Crawley and Foakes for next test please.

I'll drink to that.

[Oldhasbeen]

 

That Butler could not catch Covid at a Anti-Vaxer convention.

[nat]

Bring in Crawley and Foakes for next test please.

I'll drink to that.

You must have been on the sauce already if you think Crawley is the answer.

[dazedpenguin]

The Lions team have flown home (or are about to) with none of the players asked to remain with the main squad. So no Foakes, Parkinson, Mahmood or Crane. That leaves Wood, Lawrence, Crawley, Bairstow, Overton, Leach and Bess available to change things. Unless they get James Vince from the Sydney Sixers or Reece Topley from the Melbourne Renegades.

Maybe Lawrence, Bairstow and Crawley in for the next test- and Wood for sure, but that is shuffling deckchairs when the ship has already sunk.