Was it a mistake to leave Harmison out?

[pcfan123]

Hopefully he'll be in for Panesar for the remaining 4 tests.

what if monty takes a few more, and swann none? then what!

 

[Will_NA]

Monty will then play the next 15 Tests bowling 67mph drag downs until he is dropped for another couple of matches and the cycle continues.

 

[Kev]

You can't take Harmy to Wales, it's practically a tour.

Sod the expense, put him up in a hotel in England and to hell with the ?5.40 a day to get across the bridge it's only 1 way!

Wouldn't have Harmi in my lineup for this test. But then I wouldn't have had Broad in it either. How he gets to play test cricket is beyond me. Maybe we just need another bowler who doesn't deserve to be there now Anderson has finally graduated into a decent bowler.

I keep thinking its time to move on from Harmison, but then we bowl rubbish while Harmi takes bucket loads of wickets in county. Damn him!

 

[somersetargyle]

Sidebottom anyone?

agreed - need the aggression it cant just be flintoff leading the charge all the time

 

[pcfan123]

We dont need Harmy, Flintoff can bowl the wide ones to 2nd slip as he showed us today.

 

[mattfb]

I don't think it was a mistake to leave him out but I think he could manage to find his way into the team by series end.

 

[irottev]

Definitely yes. He performed well in the warm-up. From the wickets they've shown during this game he got good top order players out. With good short balls on Hughes too. He has something over a few of the players. I'd have picked him over Panesar for SURE. Even Broad.

 

[valvolux]

Harmison has to come in for Broad - Onions has to come in for Panesar. I'll say it till the cows come home - Broad is the worst new ball bowler in test cricket who will get spanked by decent batsmen all day long.

 

[papalazarou]

A bowler who's spanked for 6 sixes in an over has something fundamentally wrong with his temperament, especially at international level.

 

[karnog]

Huge mistake to leave Onions out. I didn't hear about Sidebottom bowling in first class games so i'll hold reservations on his inclusion.

 

[irottev]

Harmison just destroyed Yorkshire. He seems in pretty good nick.

 

[Mercules]

A bowler who's spanked for 6 sixes in an over has something fundamentally wrong with his temperament, especially at international level.

Utter rubbish.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

What the hell has happened to Hoggard?

 

[King Pietersen]

He got dropped after 1 bad Test in NZ and we discovered 2 better swing bowlers, Anderson and Sidebottom.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

He got dropped after 1 bad Test in NZ and we discovered 2 better swing bowlers, Anderson and Sidebottom.

Exactly. One bad test and he's dropped, after all the good he's done for England? Speaking of Sidebottom, where's he in this Test?