England tour of West Indies 2021/22

[wasteyouryouth]

Good day in the end.

Bairstow, Conway, Khawaja and Imam-ul-Haq the leading batters so far in 2022. No one would've predicted that a few months ago.

Joe Root averaging a Crawley-esque 16.4

The world's gone mad.

 

[Ed Smith]

Could almost call that England's day. Nice to see we're still a one man band though. Just a different man

 

[blockerdave]

@blockerdave

I mean jeez… if Ian Bell’s mum is posting on these forums she could at least out herself so we at least have 1 legit femme on the forum to balance Keith.

 

[Tfiwssirhc]

What England desperately lack nowadays is a player the likes of Ian Bell/ Jame sTaylor. I'd go more so with Ian Bell, as he had this knack of holding together when everything around him as crumbling. Dunno, what can be done at the top though- cause they've given quite a few people a decent run there. As someone mentioned, the Ben stokes option might be worth a try here.

You forgot Trott,the best of the lot

 

[Aislabie]

You forgot Trott,the best of the lot

Funny way of spelling "James Vince"

 

[asprin]

Two centuries in three Tests from Bairstow? I might have to change my view about him soon.

A wonderful supporting knock from Foakes as well. How is he not a regular in the team is beyond me.

 

[Ed Smith]

Two centuries in three Tests from Bairstow? I might have to change my view about him soon.

A wonderful supporting knock from Foakes as well. How is he not a regular in the team is beyond me.

Because his name isn't Jos Buttler

 

[asprin]

Because his name isn't Jos Buttler

Reckon he is on thin ice in the longest format of the game? Surely he hasn't played well except for one innings here and there.

 

[Ed Smith]

Reckon he is on thin ice in the longest format of the game? Surely he hasn't played well except for one innings here and there.

Ideally he shouldn't get back in at all. But he will

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Reckon he is on thin ice in the longest format of the game? Surely he hasn't played well except for one innings here and there.

He's AB de Villiers in limited overs cricket and Shane Dowrich in test cricket.

 

[Aislabie]

Ideally he shouldn't get back in at all. But he will

There was also that time when Buttler missed every stumping chance in his first 27 Tests as a designated keeper (out of his first 47 Tests overall), while Foakes has already taken five stumpings in his first eight Tests. It's not just about missing chances in this case, but also failing to create them

 

[Ed Smith]

There was also that time when Buttler missed every stumping chance in his first 27 Tests as a designated keeper (out of his first 47 Tests overall), while Foakes has already taken five stumpings in his first eight Tests. It's not just about missing chances in this case, but also failing to create them

Ah yeah that was a thing. Forget he's not even a good keeper to go along with his not being a good long form batsman. Madness he's played so many tests. Really hope Foakes gets millions of runs in this series so they can't sneak Buttler back into the side

 

[Aislabie]

Forget he's not even a good keeper

It's weird, but this was definitely a thing. I remember being pretty convinced for a couple of years that he was less bad than Bairstow, which I think I was lulled into more because Bairstow is a better outfielder. Buttler's outfielding, meanwhile, is also chronic

 

[Ed Smith]

It's weird, but this was definitely a thing. I remember being pretty convinced for a couple of years that he was less bad than Bairstow, which I think I was lulled into more because Bairstow is a better outfielder. Buttler's outfielding, meanwhile, is also chronic

Reckon he just pretends to be a keeper to avoid having to run?

 

[Aislabie]

Reckon he just pretends to be a keeper to avoid having to run?

Wouldn't rule it out - by all accounts he was exactly that kind of captain at school

There is a classic story about him in his final year at King's College - the MCC (they have a prolific Wandering fixture list) had turned up for their annual game and Buttler won the toss. He chose to bat first and opened the batting with himself and Alex Barrow

It was a time game (as Wandering fixtures are) but Buttler just didn't declare which really pissed off the MCC players. He also made about 200-odd himself because of course he did.

He then went off into the sunset and left Barrow (next year's captain) to face up to an MCC attack that included several professional fast bowlers roped in for the occasion. Not that it mattered to Buttler, who had had his day of not fielding and no consequences.