Pavilionaire
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Beer run out - on a boiling hot day too! Unforgiveable!!
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County Championship Div 2 Kent v Sussex at the Nevill
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Beer run out - on a boiling hot day too! Unforgiveable!!
Pavilionaire
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Still at least Ross Taylor's in, he isn't going anywhere!
That's fairly spectacularly brainless*
*unless it was some unfortunate freak occurrence, backing up, or whatnot...
BensGrandad
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No England need him to open with Cook. The man has ability in bundles even if he is 40 years old.
Uncle Buck
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OK, he is never going to play for England again, nor is any other old county pro.
So just move on, I know that is a struggle at times, but for this one leave it.
BensGrandad
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Why not if the youngest arent ready of not capable surely as a short term fix to give them time. Should be considered.
Who are the alternatives who havent been tried and failed?
Uncle Buck
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On that basis they may as well get Ian Bell back in.
I think what you are forgetting is that Trescothick has made it clear he does not want to be considered for England and now into his 40's it is not a sensible move.
Also, Hales had a decent enough series against Sri Lanka, so whilst he has some question marks over his technique, I am not sure the openers are the current concern. 4 and 5 look far more iffy than the openers at the moment.
BensGrandad
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In the not to distant past we usually had a start with 100 for the first wicket or thereabouts. How we could do with that now. That is going back to the days ov Vaughan and Strauss
Uncle Buck
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The batting order has been flaky for a while, but bringing in Trescothick is not the fix.
Root should be left at 4 and if Taylor had not had to quit, I suspect he would have been a three and there would be less question marks.
Currently England do not have many players that can still around, but Trescothick was not a sedate player either.
Uncle Buck
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Just noticed that we have totally ballsed up the batting bonus points in this game as well.
Only going to get two points from this excuse of an innings.
Only going to get two points from this excuse of an innings.
BensGrandad
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Did they not have a similar problem and there were calls to bring back Ramprekash who excelled in the county game. Going back further we did it a number of times with Tom Graveney but as they say form is temporary class is permenant.
Uncle Buck
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Different era and he hardly did a lot for England.
BensGrandad
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The young are not good enough generally probably due to never having to build an innings with the many short forms of the game.
Uncle Buck
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Mackenzie
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Should Taylor not be marshaling the tail? Him and Magoffin have been in for four overs, Magoffin facing the majority of the deliveries.
tigertim68
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6 players could not get into double figures on the same wicket which Kent scored almost 600 on , not hard to see where the problem is , same on Friday night , can't believe how far the team has fallen in quality over the last 3 years
BensGrandad
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They make the odd decent score but also throw their wicket away quite often so not to be relied on.
Root makes the 'odd decent score' and is 'not to be relied on'. FFS..........4th in Test, 7th in ODI and 5th in T20 in World Rankings. Yeah, get rid and bring Mike Gatting back.
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Mackenzie
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That's an odd statement to make, Root is ranked number 4 ICC test batsman and 7 ODI batsman, I'm pretty sure he was number 1 in tests recently too.
