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As stated above, they would have been better picking Foakes and taking the gloves off of Bairstow.
I've seen a fair amount of Ben Foakes and he really has something behind the stumps with the gloves.
Atherton made a point of his XI selection would be based around the batting strengths of Bairstow, who has been in exceptional form and deserves a go to play as specialist batsman.
I believe Stoneman deserves a chance at the top of the order.
With the pitch offering turn, a couple of friends have said that Dawson was in for his spin options and his batting. I pointed out that Rashid averages more than Dawson with the bat in FC cricket and has a better FC bowling average as well. Dawson feels like a covering selection rather than a decisive one and to me it indicate that management do not regard Rashid as a Test bowler. One of the Cricinfo commentators described the selection as a passive one and I agree with that.
There are some good young keepers out there. Foakes gets the plaudits but the like of Davies at Lancs and Ben Cox at Worcs are good glovemen and improving batsmen. It's a good sign for English cricket as the keeping role has been rather neglected over the last few years.
Ban him for the rest of this test, that's a proper punishment.
Next up Trent Bridge, bring it on!
Bye-bye to Jennings, Ballance and Dawson. The first two are badly out of nick and Dawson serves no tangible purpose. Wood might be worrying a bit about his place, he's not been the speed demon of old. No idea if Woakes will be fit, but if he is he must be under consideration.
As for the batting - we have a serious problem. There seems to be too much of a one-day mentality in our batting. It needs to be drummed into our batsmen that occupying the crease for two days requires certain shots to be put out of consideration. Maybe they need to be sat down to watch Atherton's rearguard action from 20-odd years ago.
How can you find the next cab off rank when they're no rank?
Need a RH in top 3.
Rashid needs to be persisted with.
Wood- he's not one thing or the other and 90mph ain't qucik enough if you do nothing with it.
Woakes will make a diff. I'd be well happy with Belly.
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Make up your own joke about how this may have happened.
Take it away, shambles.
I love being an England fan
Genius.
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This series is see-sawing all over the place.