Ashes 2015 - Australia tour of England July/September 2015
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stefan
International Coach
Nah still don't need Kp, bell&ballance are world beaters playing at the top of their games...
dp458
Club Captain
Im Bells biggest fan, and he looks class when he plays CC for us(Warks), but I think the time is up, and he should now come back to edgbaston and captain ala Collingwood for years to come.
Lyth, Bell out for me
Bairstow and Taylor/Hales to come in
Cook
Hales/Ali
Ballance/Talyor
Root/Ballance
Bairstow/Root
Stokes/Bairstow
Buttler
Ali/Stokes
Broad
Wood
Anderson
With Ballance under pressure, from whomever of that 3 doesnt make it in
If they dont pick an opener, then i Feel Ali could do it.
Lyth, Bell out for me
Bairstow and Taylor/Hales to come in
Cook
Hales/Ali
Ballance/Talyor
Root/Ballance
Bairstow/Root
Stokes/Bairstow
Buttler
Ali/Stokes
Broad
Wood
Anderson
With Ballance under pressure, from whomever of that 3 doesnt make it in
If they dont pick an opener, then i Feel Ali could do it.
richowebbo
County Cricketer
I don't think we can drop him in for the 2nd innings can we? May as well for all that he's contributing! Didn't he drop Smith yesterday as well?
blockerdave
ICC Chairman
Yes Smith was on 50 at the time so Bell's current contribution is -164
richowebbo
County Cricketer
I wouldn't drop Lyth just yet. We've had so many openers, the message would be loud and clear. "if you don't score immediately you're dropped". That would just make it harder for whoever comes in. Robson, Carberry and Compton all did OK and were dropped. Not many people come into teams and make runs straight away. I'm just not a fan of Ballance, but he has a good average, but has looked poor against top quality stuff this summer. Bell has to go I'm afraid. So, so bad.
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Dutch
Guest
Trouble is most of us expected this didnt we? Aussies make it look like a road and then we make it look like the last 22 yards to Mordor.......top order is just too brittle, fall like dominos......meh.....
richowebbo
County Cricketer
That's a helluva contribution!
blockerdave
ICC Chairman
He looks class in county cricket because he is the modern Graeme Hick. A talented flat track bully with zero mental strength. Hick was unlucky to play in an era with a lot of strong international attacks & a chop and change selection policy so he was found out and discarded. Bell plays in an era of a lot of weak attacks and "stable" selection so has got chance after chance, and there's always fodder coming up to grab a score to stay in the side.
Regardless of anything else, Bell has been playing international cricket for 10 years, so though in cricketing erms he's not that old he is used up in my opinion. I don't think there'll be many players who have averaged under 30 over 2 years as Bell has done, at that point in their career, and suddenly started averaging 50+ but because he's got a nice cover drive people think Bell will.[DOUBLEPOST=1437150398][/DOUBLEPOST]
I definitely expected it from Bell
dp458
Club Captain
Totally agreed, and I love Bell
County attacks are awful, if Jesse Ryder gets stack loads albeit in div 2, it shows the standard
richowebbo
County Cricketer
Who is the answer to Bell?
Bairstow is the next best batsman we have (assuming we won't bring KP back!) at the moment.
Bairstow is the next best batsman we have (assuming we won't bring KP back!) at the moment.
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Dutch
Guest
Well the feel good factor was back and if they can knuckle down and somehow rescue soemthing from this situation or at least make it look more respectable there are still chances that the momentum can be held but this is a real smack in the goolies and Australia will be loving every second of it......
Why not ... frankly I think this nonsense has gone on long enough now.
_Sam_
Panel of Selectors
richowebbo
County Cricketer
Sorry, do you mean why not bring back KP?
So many reasons why we won't, not as many why we shouldn't![DOUBLEPOST=1437152608][/DOUBLEPOST]
Off we go again.
teehee
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