20-12-2016, 17:21
In a word, shite
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England tour of India
21-12-2016, 00:44
Aye, not been good, has it?
Never mind they've got a nice carribbean holiday coming up.
Never mind they've got a nice carribbean holiday coming up.
21-12-2016, 09:27
Playing pub cricket it's the future apparently
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21-12-2016, 10:52
Positives in the emergence of Hameed and Keaton Jennings though, surely? A terrible series for England otherwise, but blood the youngsters and chin-up.
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21-12-2016, 18:49
We do have some great players though, especially in the middle order, so that makes all these collapses even harder to fathom out. If we had shit players, fair enough. But they're not.
21-12-2016, 21:35
Maybe Cook needs to give up the captaincy pass it on to Root, who is a more adventurous player and possibly captain
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27-12-2016, 17:55
The problem with English cricket isnt the captain or even the players as such its higher up than that.
The problem lies with selectors who pick players from their clubs or pick based on the fact they missed out once before. Finn ballance andari batty should have been no where near the side.
The other issue is that we have a head coach who sees zero county championship games and as such cant even offer an opinion on who should be selected but it also hinders match day selection as he only goes on net performance.
The other issue lies with the infrastructure of english cricket. You have a failed test spinner in Salisbury coaching the youth and other seemingly jobs for the boys and we produce rank average spinners through that system as they only get taught how to be orthadox nothing different no mystery. Typical old fashioned style from yester year. Also they complain about the lack of top quality spin bowlers yet the last time there was a full time spin coach was when mushy was around with swann. The performances of rash was notably different with and without saqlain and should say all that needs to be said. A full time spin coach would help the batters too, but i guess the ecb dont want to do that, they want the head coach to do it all. We also dont have a fielding coach and it showed.
The solutions? One would be to sack the current selection panel and bring in people who have less of a say at other clubs and are more modern and objective ie no fraser or newell who are prominent figures at middlesex and notts respectively.
get bayliss watching county cricket as well as gibson fabrace and the spin bowling coach and other coaches. Bring in scouts of some sort to watch and identity players.
on another level we need to be helping players properly to develop their game, have more games and workshops in foreign conditions so they learn the conditions more rather than a week before a competition or tour.
We need to be more progressive. We stagnated a few years ago before bayliss and farbs came in and the changes happened in the odis and a bit in tests. But the production line and quality of the production has stagnated from the ecb angle. Hameed developed via lancs as root did with yorks
The problem lies with selectors who pick players from their clubs or pick based on the fact they missed out once before. Finn ballance andari batty should have been no where near the side.
The other issue is that we have a head coach who sees zero county championship games and as such cant even offer an opinion on who should be selected but it also hinders match day selection as he only goes on net performance.
The other issue lies with the infrastructure of english cricket. You have a failed test spinner in Salisbury coaching the youth and other seemingly jobs for the boys and we produce rank average spinners through that system as they only get taught how to be orthadox nothing different no mystery. Typical old fashioned style from yester year. Also they complain about the lack of top quality spin bowlers yet the last time there was a full time spin coach was when mushy was around with swann. The performances of rash was notably different with and without saqlain and should say all that needs to be said. A full time spin coach would help the batters too, but i guess the ecb dont want to do that, they want the head coach to do it all. We also dont have a fielding coach and it showed.
The solutions? One would be to sack the current selection panel and bring in people who have less of a say at other clubs and are more modern and objective ie no fraser or newell who are prominent figures at middlesex and notts respectively.
get bayliss watching county cricket as well as gibson fabrace and the spin bowling coach and other coaches. Bring in scouts of some sort to watch and identity players.
on another level we need to be helping players properly to develop their game, have more games and workshops in foreign conditions so they learn the conditions more rather than a week before a competition or tour.
We need to be more progressive. We stagnated a few years ago before bayliss and farbs came in and the changes happened in the odis and a bit in tests. But the production line and quality of the production has stagnated from the ecb angle. Hameed developed via lancs as root did with yorks
23-01-2017, 18:47
A much-needed ray of light yesterday with a nail-biting win in the last ODI. Great stuff from Woakes to claw it back in the last over after being whacked for ten off the first two balls. Looking forward a bit more to the T20 series now.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley
26-01-2017, 16:16
And the T20s get underway with a good, comfortable win. Made it look easy. Some great shots from Morgan at the crease and quality attack from the bowlers.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley
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