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Target of 324. I'll be surprised if we get within 150 of that based on what we've produced in the series so far.
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18 batsmen dismissed in single figures in the game so far.
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| Strauss and Cook survive until close, but, once again, neither shows any sign of looking confident against the spinners, with both content to crawl along at snail's pace, pinned back in their crease.
Do any of our batsmen know how to use their feet to the spinners, putting pressure on the bowler, while at the same time, putting runs on the board??... 
One thing is certain, playing the defensive way will only lead to an ineviable defeat. |
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| Quote: Dita's Slot Meter "Do any of our batsmen know how to use their feet to the spinners, putting pressure on the bowler, while at the same time, putting runs on the board??... ![]()
I read some interesting comments from former Pakistan player Mudassar Nazar earlier, he's coaching at the ICC academy down the road from the ground and he said he watched England using the Merlin spin bowling machine in practice and all they did was try to hit fours and sixes - if that is true it's not exactly meticulous preparation is it?
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| Quote: Asim "I read some interesting comments from former Pakistan player Mudassar Nazar earlier, he's coaching at the ICC academy down the road from the ground and he said he watched England using the Merlin spin bowling machine in practice and all they did was try to hit fours and sixes - if that is true it's not exactly meticulous preparation is it?'"
Did they manage to hit any? |
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| Quote: Prince of Denmark "I'm disgusted by the Morgan Review. The various one day competitions have been tinkered with so much over the last decade I'm not really bothered what happens to them, but cutting the number of Championship matches when the current format has worked so well and produced so many exciting finishes since it was adopted in 2000 is shocking.'"
Couldn't agree more. I still can't quite work out what the purpose is supposed to be.
Quote: Prince of Denmark "I'm not sure how to link it as it's on a PDF, but Morgan's proposed calendar for the 2014 season is on my desktop. The season starts on Friday 11 April with the one day knockout final on Saturday 20 September; the Champions League is scheduled to begin on 10 September. The season is still just as long, it overlaps with the Champions League, and there are still 19 dates allocated for Championship matches, the same as last season. The only difference is that each team is inactive for five out of 19 rounds instead of three out of 19 rounds.'"
I'll have to try and find a copy of that if you can't get it up on here. That just makes it sound even dafter.
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Quote: GT "Couldn't agree more. I still can't quite work out what the purpose is supposed to be.
I'll have to try and find a copy of that if you can't get it up on here. That just makes it sound even dafter.'"
This is the link from which I downloaded the PDF a couple of weeks back. It seems to have been removed, maybe it can be found by another route on the ECB website?
static.ecb.co.uk/files/morgan...dule-11868.pdf
My gut feeling is that "Team England" has given Morgan two briefs:
a) Cut the number of Championship matches to 14 and give every team two additional blank weeks for rest/practice during the season. There's clearly a groundswell of opposition to this at county level, and it appears the Morgan Review has attempted to ignore this.
b) Make the one day competion 50 overs instead of 40 overs, regardless of what best suits the counties. (Personally I'd rather watch 40 overs, but I'm not really that bothered. either way.) |
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Quote: GT "Couldn't agree more. I still can't quite work out what the purpose is supposed to be.
I'll have to try and find a copy of that if you can't get it up on here. That just makes it sound even dafter.'"
This is the link from which I downloaded the PDF a couple of weeks back. It seems to have been removed, maybe it can be found by another route on the ECB website?
static.ecb.co.uk/files/morgan...dule-11868.pdf
My gut feeling is that "Team England" has given Morgan two briefs:
a) Cut the number of Championship matches to 14 and give every team two additional blank weeks for rest/practice during the season. There's clearly a groundswell of opposition to this at county level, and it appears the Morgan Review has attempted to ignore this.
b) Make the one day competion 50 overs instead of 40 overs, regardless of what best suits the counties. (Personally I'd rather watch 40 overs, but I'm not really that bothered. either way.) | |
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| Quote: Chief Stinkwort "Did they manage to hit any?'" 
Plenty of contributions to our downfall again from our batsmen today, Pakistan played very well - and have had a very good 2011/12 in test cricket, but questions have to be asked about our planning and preparation batting-wise. The attitude of persevering with players has served us well in recent times and is to be applauded - so surely with that settled line-up there should be no excuse for people not being ready for what they are going to face from their opponents? |
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I agree with scrapping the 40 over competition in favour for a 50 over. We should be playing the same formats domestically, as are played internationally.
Reducing the county championship games is ridiculous.
As for England, the fact that we're capable of taking 20 wickets on the sub-continent is a plus to take from the series. The batsmen need to work on their technique against spin, and if they do we should be in a good position to win in Sri Lanka. Would leave Morgan out and replace him with either Bresnan or Patel, dependant on whether they'd like an extra front line seamer or batsman that offers a better backup spin option than KP.
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The only sensible way that they could have brought the championship down to 14 games would have been to reduce the number of teams in the top division to 8 so at least there would be an even spread of the 14 games. To have some teams playing each other twice and some only once makes it a lottery.
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Good knock from Cook as England get 260 something.
Finn has all 4 as Pakistan slip to 40 something for 4
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So are we now a one day team??? lol.
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Tie between India and Sri Lanka today, both making 236/9. But the 30th over of the Indian innings was a 5-baller... Controversy
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Two decent ODI wins now, Cook and Finn doing the business again - doesn't make up for the test shambles though.
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| Quote: Asim "Two decent ODI wins now, Cook and Finn doing the business again - doesn't make up for the test shambles though.'"
If only we had a couple more explosive and relaible batsman, then we'd be a formidable one-day outfit, because our bowling attack is as good as you could get. |
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