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 Midlands Eagle  21 Jul 15 4.02pm |
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So it's Ballance out and Bairstow in with Bell and Root moving up a place and Bairstow batting at five. Let's hope that Bell rediscovers his form pretty quickly as if Lyth lasts as long as normal Bell will be facing a nice hard shiny new ball being bowled by a fresh, well rested fast bowler
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| Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 21 Jul 15 4.15pm |
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Quote Ian J at 21 Jul 2015 4.02pm
So it's Ballance out and Bairstow in with Bell and Root moving up a place and Bairstow batting at five. Let's hope that Bell rediscovers his form pretty quickly as if Lyth lasts as long as normal Bell will be facing a nice hard shiny new ball being bowled by a fresh, well rested fast bowler Think Lyth is in the "Last chance saloon".
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| Hoof Hearted 21 Jul 15 5.30pm | |
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Quote Ian J at 21 Jul 2015 4.02pm
So it's Ballance out and Bairstow in with Bell and Root moving up a place and Bairstow batting at five. Let's hope that Bell rediscovers his form pretty quickly as if Lyth lasts as long as normal Bell will be facing a nice hard shiny new ball being bowled by a fresh, well rested fast bowler
Typical half-arsed response from the England selectors. Keeping those two in the team and actually promoting Bell up the order to 3 is just plain stupidity.
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| Midlands Eagle 21 Jul 15 5.45pm |
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 21 Jul 2015 5.30pm
Typical half-arsed response from the England selectors. Keeping those two in the team and actually promoting Bell up the order to 3 is just plain stupidity. As they say, form is temporary whilst class in permanent and Ian Bell is a class player so let's hope that he rediscovers his touch pretty quickly. It would help players like Bell and Lyth if the ECB brought in bowlers like Tymal Mills and Mark Footitt as net bowlers with the former being the closest that we've got to Mitch Johnson
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chateauferret  21 Jul 15 8.52pm |
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Typical half-arsed response from the England selectors. Keeping those two in the team and actually promoting Bell up the order to 3 is just plain stupidity. It's a pathetic bottle job. Lyth couldn't have been more sh!te in that second test, Ballance has gone well off the boil and Bell's time has run out. They've dumped one batsman pour encourager les autres, by the looks of it, and are presumably supposing that that plus a few strong b0llockings will be enough to make them get there arses in gear. Looking forward then to another instalment of The Muppets.
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| Midlands Eagle 22 Jul 15 7.38am |
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Quote chateauferret at 21 Jul 2015 8.52pm
It's a pathetic bottle job. Lyth couldn't have been more sh!te in that second test, Ballance has gone well off the boil and Bell's time has run out. They've dumped one batsman pour encourager les autres, by the looks of it, and are presumably supposing that that plus a few strong b0llockings will be enough to make them get there arses in gear. Looking forward then to another instalment of The Muppets. Listening to the opinions of various cricket experts after the Lords Test people like Nasser Hussain and David Lloyd said that it would be wrong to drop Lyth and he needed to spend the off week learning which balls to leave. In fact the only person that I can recall suggesting that Lyth should be replaced was Bob Willis and he always likes to be contrary
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| Hoof Hearted 22 Jul 15 10.56am | |
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Anyways....... it is what it is and we have to put up with it. I doubt that we'll see much improvement in Bell and Lyth, but Bairstow has a good heart and will add value compared to Ballance. The Aussies tails will be up, so we're in for a torrid time batting and need a good start.
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| fed up eagle Between Horley, Surrey and Preston... 22 Jul 15 11.38am |
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Lythe should have gone too. He clearly ain't up to the job. Sadly it looks like the selectors are waiting until we're 2-1 down in the series until taking the action they should. Lythe just ain't up to the job, it's as simple as that. Bell is out of form but is a class player when he's on top of his game. There are better options than Lythe, Taylor for example, even Eoin Morgan would do a better job than Lythe, hell even I would do better than Lythe, I couldn't do any worse.
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| fed up eagle Between Horley, Surrey and Preston... 22 Jul 15 12.27pm |
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Quote Willo at 21 Jul 2015 4.15pm
Quote Ian J at 21 Jul 2015 4.02pm
So it's Ballance out and Bairstow in with Bell and Root moving up a place and Bairstow batting at five. Let's hope that Bell rediscovers his form pretty quickly as if Lyth lasts as long as normal Bell will be facing a nice hard shiny new ball being bowled by a fresh, well rested fast bowler [u]Think Lyth is in the "Last chance saloon".
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| Midlands Eagle 22 Jul 15 1.02pm |
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Quote fed up eagle at 22 Jul 2015 11.38am
Lythe should have gone too. He clearly ain't up to the job. Sadly it looks like the selectors are waiting until we're 2-1 down in the series until taking the action they should. Lythe just ain't up to the job, it's as simple as that. Bell is out of form but is a class player when he's on top of his game. There are better options than Lythe, Taylor for example, even Eoin Morgan would do a better job than Lythe, hell even I would do better than Lythe, I couldn't do any worse. Seeing off the new ball requires a different technique and the players that you have mentioned as suitable replacements are middle order players not openers.
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| fed up eagle Between Horley, Surrey and Preston... 22 Jul 15 1.16pm |
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Quote Ian J at 22 Jul 2015 1.02pm
Quote fed up eagle at 22 Jul 2015 11.38am
Lythe should have gone too. He clearly ain't up to the job. Sadly it looks like the selectors are waiting until we're 2-1 down in the series until taking the action they should. Lythe just ain't up to the job, it's as simple as that. Bell is out of form but is a class player when he's on top of his game. There are better options than Lythe, Taylor for example, even Eoin Morgan would do a better job than Lythe, hell even I would do better than Lythe, I couldn't do any worse. Seeing off the new ball requires a different technique and the players that you have mentioned as suitable replacements are middle order players not openers.
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AussiePalace  Melbourne, Australia 28 Jul 15 11.11pm |
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I've just been informed that for the first time in 139 Test Matches, or since 2004 for those playing along at home, England's team will not contain a player born somewhere in Africa. Good for you England; well played.
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