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England comprehensively pounded.
I'm not saying they should be dropped (although some inevitably will) but put their bags on their planes seats and make them lie in the luggage hold for the flight back.
I'm not sure Joe Root is ready to replace him.
Now Rashid had spells of looking good in India on the turning track but didn't do it well enough in the UAE for me. To take a five for in one Test and to still finish the series averaging 70 with a three figure strike rate... not good enough.
Jennings: bats a bit like Tresco and bowls a bit like him too. Not there as a tight over man and neither is Root.
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Awesome player.
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Probably the umpire's fault.
Test series we were a long way off the pace. Building a new team is all well and good but we have been building a squad for 2-3 years now and have no idea on our best 11.
I wonder if the clock is ticking/there is any pressure on Trevor Bayliss - Test team has gone backwards but the ODI team has now become my favourite form of the game. (always a traditionalist but now look forward to OD games a lot more than I used to) The winter test tours were very depressing to follow. Or maybe its just Cook that needs to resign and stick to doing what he does best.
Farbrace and Morgan have to take the credit for the "no fear" attitude in the one day team it started before Bayliss took charge.
I would like to see India play abroad for a bit now. Test cricket is becoming a little boring with so many teams being formidable at home and woeful away. (despite SA dominating in Australia recently and Pakistan getting a series draw against us) Maybe the tables are turning...or maybe its just England
Hmmm, not sure Root is ready to captain the side yet. Could be an interesting summer as we prepare for the Ashes.
I wonder if Root will be known as the Little Chef from now on?
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The right time. A great batsman but a distinctly "meh" captain.
Maybe England should take the novel step of making their best tactician the captain rather than just defaulting to whoever the best batsman is.
Most sides are in the same boat regarding inconsistency in Tests. Australia are generally dominant at home but fall apart away. For all their home qualities, don't forget how we stuffed India last time out. Most sides are failing away from home because tour schedules don't allow them to acclimatise as they used to in my view. The problem is that the schedules simply don't allow for more warm-up and tour games. Something has to give if Test cricket is to survive and I have a feeling that the decision to grant Ireland Test status will also be accompanied by two-division Test cricket. Fewer Tests per year but greater quality within those Tests should be the aim.
ODI and T20 games still bore the shit out of me. T20 especially. Oooh, a six. Oooh, another. Ooooh, a slow bowler who can't spin the ball for shit gets a wicket because someone's tried to cart him away.
In Test cricket, you get a nice new ball and the supposed cream of your attack.
In T20 cricket, you get a new ball, a seamer, and a middle order batsman bowling 75kph non-turning darts.
The stats on him being the fourth best captain in terms of wins for skippers who have done 40 Tests is interesting. As captain in Ashes Tests, he's lost more Tests than he has won 6-7 yet that still means two series wins and one 5-0 stuffing. I'd say his era was typified by us playing some fine cricket at times, a lack of consistency and when we lost a series, we tended to lose heavily.
He's living proof that amputees can perform at even the highest level, although how he gets that pace with only one leg is beyond me.
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Steve Smith's ton was as good as anything scored for some time. He still looks awkward but damn he can play, as an average of 60 after 51 Tests shows. Also a lesson for England there in not judging people too early and letting them develop. Smith started as a leg spinner batting at 8 in Test cricket.