India tour of England Aug-Sept 2021

[wasteyouryouth]

England's Top Order - CricViz

Ben Jones looks at Rory Burns and Dom Sibley.

www.cricviz.com

TLDR

'And so when you criticise Sibley – a man with a clear, proven skill in terms of wicket preservation – be aware that nobody else is lurking with a greater skill, a clearer ability to smash opposition attacks. Both would be nice.'

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Either way, Haseeb Hameed's return at No.3 was a given ... but coming into this game he had made a solitary half-century in 17 innings at No.3, and at a wince-inducing average of 17.07.

Dom Sibley stuck in an unsustainable rut

Familiar script as England are forced to call upon the same old batting hero

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Sorry, I woke up early and the Sibley clickbait hype train is in full flow.

 

[Yash.]

BRING BACK JOE DENLY.

I believe in Joe Denly supremacy

 

[Ed Smith]

I believe in Joe Denly supremacy

I don't even believe in Joe Denly

 

[Aislabie]

Sorry, I woke up early and the Sibley clickbait hype train is in full flow.

A few very interesting reads there.

It is bizarre to think how little certainty there is that any given member of this team will play the next game, let alone the next Ashes.

It is concerning though that Burns and Sibley really are the best openers available no matter how much experimentation one does. Unless...

 

[ddrap14]

A few very interesting reads there.

It is bizarre to think how little certainty there is that any given member of this team will play the next game, let alone the next Ashes.

It is concerning though that Burns and Sibley really are the best openers available no matter how much experimentation one does. Unless...

Ignore Bedingham because he's South African, but what would be the harm in trying one or both of the other two?

Edit: and Tom Abell- man's averaging 63 this year

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Ignore Bedingham because he's South African, but what would be the harm in trying one or both of the other two?
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Edit: and Tom Abell- man's averaging 63 this year

Carlson is a middle order batsman. Which for the most part isn't a problem. Root, Stokes, Pope, Buttler when all available is probably the preferred line up, while they aren't they will keep throwing Jonny B into the fire and hope he comes good.

Libby is probably there or thereabouts, I doubt he'd get a chance until next summer and that's if Sibley, Hameed and Crawley are all ditched (I think Burns is probably safe). Abell has some injury but has been in A-teams. I mean there's no shortage of batters who average a touch over 30 in England.

James Bracey was the 'next' option and that was a disaster.

 

[ddrap14]

Carlson is a middle order batsman. Which for the most part isn't a problem. Root, Stokes, Pope, Buttler when all available is probably the preferred line up, while they aren't they will keep throwing Jonny B into the fire and hope he comes good.

Libby is probably there or thereabouts, I doubt he'd get a chance until next summer and that's if Sibley, Hameed and Crawley are all ditched (I think Burns is probably safe). Abell has some injury but has been in A-teams. I mean there's no shortage of batters who average a touch over 30 in England.

James Bracey was the 'next' option and that was a disaster.

True, I was more looking at batsmen who have been good this year. The thought being, if nobody is good enough when they're average, maybe it's just worth picking the people who are tearing it up domestically (those three being the only Englishmen averaging over 50, and of only a select few averaging over 40).

That said as an Aussie, I'd love to see Burns, Sibley and Crawley vs Starc, Hazlewood, Cummins and Jhye...

 

[Ed Smith]

Jonny Bairstow ton kind of day

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

India is back to their best form. @asprin should be happy.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

An innings defeat incoming.

 

[Ed Smith]

Never doubted Bairstow you know... Never.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

The great test match innings - Lara 400, Laxman vs Australia, a ton or seven by Bradman, Stokes vs Australia - and today Jonny Bairstow's half-century.

 

[Ed Smith]

The great test match innings - Lara 400, Laxman vs Australia, a ton or seven by Bradman, Stokes vs Australia - and today Jonny Bairstow's half-century.

I will give him a bit of credit tbf. He is trying to bat in a Test Match style. Not played half as many loose shots as I'd come to expect. Getting back and accross as well, so not leaving that giant gap between bat and pad

 

[wasteyouryouth]

I will give him a bit of credit tbf. He is trying to bat in a Test Match style. Not played half as many loose shots as I'd come to expect. Getting back and accross as well, so not leaving that giant gap between bat and pad

Only taken two years between half-centuries. Helps to be batting in the sun, with his mate and on a flattened wicket.

I think is why he keeps his place; the hope that if he can get three figures it'll unlock Bairstow 2016 mode.