[Cricket] England vs India Second Test - Lord's

[jakarta]

Well done ECB, no Tests all summer then 1 a week until September...

Seeing as Stokes won't be appearing and Malan has been dropped I would have thought Moeen Ali and Woakes would slot in, maybe move Bairstow up the order and let Buttler keep wicket? I see this Surrey Wunderkind Pope is in the Squad but I would go for:

Cook
Jennings
Root
Bairstow
Buttler (wk)
Moeen Ali
Curran
Woakes
Rashid
Broad
Anderson

 

[big nuts]

Well done ECB, no Tests all summer then 1 a week until September...

Seeing as Stokes won't be appearing and Malan has been dropped I would have thought Moeen Ali and Woakes would slot in, maybe move Bairstow up the order and let Buttler keep wicket? I see this Surrey Wunderkind Pope is in the Squad but I would go for:

Cook
Jennings
Root
Bairstow
Buttler (wk)
Moeen Ali
Curran
Woakes
Rashid
Broad
Anderson

Pope will definitely play and it will be between Moeen & Woakes for Stokes slot.

 

[Barham's tash]

I’m just looking for some competitive cricket on days 1 & 2 so I stand a chance of remembering it


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[Eeyore]

Well done ECB, no Tests all summer then 1 a week until September...

Seeing as Stokes won't be appearing and Malan has been dropped I would have thought Moeen Ali and Woakes would slot in, maybe move Bairstow up the order and let Buttler keep wicket? I see this Surrey Wunderkind Pope is in the Squad but I would go for:

Cook
Jennings
Root
Bairstow
Buttler (wk)
Moeen Ali
Curran
Woakes
Rashid
Broad
Anderson

Didn't England play a couple of Tests against Pakistan ?

 

[jakarta]

Didn't England play a couple of Tests against Pakistan ?

Late spring, at a push you could call it early Summer then we had that one-sided 50 over competition with an Aussie 2nd XI...

 

[jakarta]

Storrington Crown Inn Pub Quiz tonight (won it for first time ever hoorah!) - both the fellow cricket fan quizzers on our team reckoned Bairstow should open with Cook...

 

[the right footed denilson]

Surprised we went for Pope over Burns- he has been impressively consistent for years now and is the leading run scorer by some distance this season.
Good luck to him though.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Woakes for Stokes, Pope for Malan.

1-0 up in the series, young Curran in fine form, I fancy Pope in the line-up might reinvigorate one or two of the top order. Picking Ali would represent a chance missed.

 

[Beach Hut]

Look forward to afternoon session listening to TMS on the beach.

 

[jakarta]

Time to bounce this thread I reckon.

Good chance of rain showers tomorrow, might want to bowl first?

 

[Chicken Run]

Well done ECB, no Tests all summer then 1 a week until September...

Seeing as Stokes won't be appearing and Malan has been dropped I would have thought Moeen Ali and Woakes would slot in, maybe move Bairstow up the order and let Buttler keep wicket? I see this Surrey Wunderkind Pope is in the Squad but I would go for:

Cook
Jennings
Root
Bairstow
Buttler (wk)
Moeen Ali
Curran
Woakes
Rashid
Broad
Anderson

Agreed, btw are you Dubai based ?

 

[jakarta]

Agreed, btw are you Dubai based ?

Sullington, I'm a bit to the North West...

 

[Cheshire Cat]

We could do with a couple of reliable openers who can score runs regularly - not a series of 1, 15, 6, 30, 4, 6, 259, 0, 4 , 0, 6, 9, 1, 0 etc

 

[um bongo molongo]

Storrington Crown Inn Pub Quiz tonight (won it for first time ever hoorah!) - both the fellow cricket fan quizzers on our team reckoned Bairstow should open with Cook...

I agree with them. Won't happen though as he wants to keep and they won't man up to telling him buttlers doing it (or pick Foakes). The fact both bairstow and butler now play in the ODI side and test side and a different one keeps in each shows the thinking is still a bit off. I think Pope will play and bat at 5 or 6.

1. Cook
2. Jennings
3. Root
4. Bairstow
5. Pope
6. buttler
7. Moeen
8. Curran
9. Rashid
10. Broad
11. Anderson

 

[pasty]

At the very best it looks like it's going to be a bit stop/start today, if indeed we get any play at all

 

[jakarta]

Il pleut - Merde!

Looks as though it will be pluetting until late afternoon.

 

[dazzer6666]

Look forward to afternoon session listening to TMS on the beach.

How are the beach plans going ?

Not much chance of lay until 5pm according to the weather-watchers. Ah well, back to transfer-window gazing then

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Il pleut - Merde!

Looks as though it will be pluetting until late afternoon.

Are you French based

 

[pasty]

Lunch Day 1

 

[vegster]

I agree with them. Won't happen though as he wants to keep and they won't man up to telling him buttlers doing it (or pick Foakes). The fact both bairstow and butler now play in the ODI side and test side and a different one keeps in each shows the thinking is still a bit off. I think Pope will play and bat at 5 or 6.

1. Cook
2. Jennings
3. Root
4. Bairstow
5. Pope
6. buttler
7. Moeen
8. Curran
9. Rashid
10. Broad
11. Anderson

Its a bit optimistic replacing Malan with Pope...not sure if it will come off.