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And it means I'll be at the Oval tomorrow. Thank God we've finally got a proper 5 day Test match. This is what happens when you prepare a good cricket wicket.
A declaration , then some quick wickets please
Just got in the ballot for my Ashes tickets for next year - fingers crossed
Bairstow hasn't had the best test summer and I've heard whispers that he sulks at any threat of the gloves being taken away from him (rumours going back 2 years or so). That debate seems over. He needs to learn to play solely as a batsman.
Regarding Stokes, I agree with many of the pundits that he has a textbook technique...Could be a masterstroke. We'll see when I wake up early to watch it!
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Let Bairstow recover fully and then he can come back.
Dropping Burns would have been regressive. He's there through sheer weight of runs. Plenty of players get nervous on debut (Michael Hussey was awful on Test debut despite having played a lot of ODI cricket beforehand). He deserves this and the next series to press his case. Good start today on a tough wicket.
No problems with YJB not playing. He's not been in great form for some time.
Going back through this thread, I've been calling for Buttler and YJB to be played as batsmen only. The example was there of a supremely talented keeper batsman who dropped the gloves in favour of the bat in Sangakkara yet we did not follow it. A keeper-batsman who averages 40 is a good thing to have: when you have two keeper batsmen who could average 40 but who could slot in higher up and average more in the top order where we are weak, you have to wonder why it took us so long to actually get to the position.
And how have we have reached this position where we have an out and out keeper of quality in Foakes, Buttler batting as well as he has ever done, and a fired up YJB batting very well today in the same side?
A freak injury. There wasn't a call or decision made from the management. We've come into the Third Test and we have experimented. Finally!
That line up looks very solid now.