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Agree about Root. His has looked lost and unhappy this series.

I think you are harsh about calling the team garbage though.

We have some very good bowlers. Archer and Curran, for example, should be cemented into the side for many years, the way Broad and Anderson were. Woakes has also impressed me this summer.

We have very good options in the middle order.

Bairstow and Buttler provide good competion behind the stumps

The top 4 batting line up is the real problem.

I would persevere with Burns. Root is far better at 4. However, we need to somehow come up with anothet option as opening partner for Burns, and a good solid number 3.

Despite out batting problems, if it wasnt for the machine called Steve Smith, we would have had the Ashes sewn up now.

 

This is getting a bit painful, far more runs than they should have got when Siddle came out.

 

This is great PR


https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/cricket/11776314/sky-crickets-peaky-blinders

 

Pretty poor batting effort today from england, back to yet another batting collapse.

If no jimmy anderson bowling the 'oz are right back in this game.

 

We’ll lose comfortably without rain I think. Maybe all the arse licking of Strauss and Bailiss from the press will stop if we lose in our own back yard to one of the weaker Australia sides to come here in the last 30 years.

 

Roy gone now, dancing down the pitch to Lyon. Pathetic.
I'm fine with having Roy in at opener to play his natural attacking game in the first innings. But if he wants to be a test opener for long he has to learn to rein in his attacking instincts in a backs to the wall dogfight. Hit the bad ball, yes. But trying to knock Lyon out of the attack on a turning pitch with a 300+ lead isn't going to work, because they won't care if he concedes a few sixes to buy wickets.

 

If we had a test team like we did between 2005-15 we’d walk over these, same the other way if the brought a team from around 1995-2015. Poor teams imo, but this is what you get when the cricketing powers prioritise the shorter forms of the game. One day cricket gets stronger and test goes down the pan.

 

The England batting line up is an embarrassment and has been for a while. Why don't we produce good quality test match batsman anymore? It's too simplistic to blame it just on one day cricket, other teams play the shorter format aswell and seem to manage a lot better than we do. Travis Head has played about 10 test matches for Australia and has something like 9 50's and a century to his name, as if we have anyone in County cricket that can come in and do that.

I'd almost be tempted to open with Sam Curran it's getting that bad.

 

One is a version that fewer and fewer people have an interest in following these days. Shame because i enjoy test cricket but its bums on seats that pay the bills for the sponsors and TV companies.

 

On another note. I remember Steve Smith coming over here in 2013, batting 8 and bowling crap spin. If he can transform himself into the batter we see now, then why the hell cant any of our one day heroes who are specialist batters do it?

 

Except that it's August in a hot summer. Most of the test pitches will be taking spin by the third or fourth day and not doing much for the seamers. The 4th day of the 1st test showed what can happen when the seamers are rendered ineffective and we don't have a spinner in form.

 

Need to get Smith out.

 

Because he's not very good at test match cricket.

 

Obviously not good to see someone injured but this is a massive development in England's favour.

 

And in other news, the hated Kent being crushed. Come on you Essex boys!

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Sam Cook for England?

County cricket: Kent v Essex, Surrey v Hampshire and more – live!

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2019/aug/20/county-cricket-kent-v-essex-sussex-v-middlesex-and-more-live?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

 

I've got a shocking revelation to make. I voodoo'd Smith and I feel terrible. I kept checking in on the score and seeing wickets tumbling for Australia but Smith's score growing and the lead shrinking. 'Won't someone just shoot that fcker.' I said to myself. Next time I checked he'd retired injured.

Suppose if this has an impact on us winning the Ashes you all owe me a pint.

 

I've heard you only drink craft beers. I can't afford the trendy ones.

 

Your mate sounds like a good bloke.

 

Won it!
Essex boys 23 points clear at the top of the County Championship. And City won away.
A good day.