[Cricket] England v Australia- 5th Ashes Test- The Oval- Thursday 12th September 2019

[Bold Seagull]

Dominick Sibley is widely touted to your this winter. You may well see him come in as an opener with Denly dropping to 3 or 4 again.

Foakes will come into contention with the gloves but whilst his test record is very good his form with the bat for his county this season has been poor.

Getting the balance of the team right will be tough. Perhaps too many all rounders which is muddling our thinking.

Stokes of course has to play but outside of him you’ve got:- Bairstow, Buttler, Woakes, Curran & Ali who give us options but are prone to inconsistency. Curren perhaps the only exception, he’s tended to perform more often than not.

Sibley deserves a chance, 1000 runs this season, solid opener.

Agree that with both Bairstow and Buttler able with the gloves Foakes needed a great domestic season with the bat, but he just hasn’t delivered the runs. Think Sibley and Pope are the ones we need a good look at over the winter.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Nice to see, the spirit of cricket and the ashes is still well and truly alive after a long summer of hard but mostly good spirited cricket.

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This. I know Warner rightly gets a lot of stick, but he seemed to engage with the crowd well at The Oval. Great summer of cricket and now all we need is for Sussex to get promoted...…………..

 

[Sussex Nomad]

- the impact of the most exciting young England fast-bowler for many years

Curran wasn't that good

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Can we go back to debating who won the Cricket World Cup, now?

 

[knocky1]

Can we go back to debating who won the Cricket World Cup, now?

Let’s just say it wasn’t Australia.