Englandâs test teamâs going to look a bit odd isnât it.
Missing 4 of a top 6 potentially.
#Cook!
Jennings?
Hameed (averaging ten or so this year)?
Gary @anon29812515?
#Root!
Hero Mo moving up?
Duckett?
Buttler?
Stokes (fit?)?
#Bairstow!
woakes crocked
Broad?
Anderson?
#Wood!
Rashid?
Tory Cumberbatch-Rowland-Smyth
Curran?
Anyone Else?
#Ball!
Would take Jennings over Hameed right now.
Ballance must be in with a shout to be at 4? Had a great summer thus far. Duckett? I know he notched a ton yesterday but am not convinced.
Cook
Jennings
Root
Ballance
Bairstow
Buttler
Stokes
Moeen
Broad
Wood
Anderson
Assuming all are fit.
I would like large lad Samit Patel to get a place, purely because of how long itâs been since a properly out of shape playerâs had an England cap
Itâs going to look a bit fragile, isnât it? Like you say, Hameedâs been in wretched nick, Jennings not much better, but I still think theyâll probably go Cook-Hameed-Jennings-Root at the top. Bairstow, Stokes, Ali, Broad, Anderson and Wood more or less pick themselves, so room for one more. Ballance has absolutely caned it all summer, so he might be the most obvious choice, Rashid if itâll spin, but I just have a sneaky feeling for Ben Foakes to come in and keep as a left field option, let Bairstow worry about batting only.
Foakes is in terrific form, has played loads of Lions games, fills in admirably for Woakes in rhyming with Stokes, and plays for Surrey which can never be underestimated in the selectorsâ minds.
Thereâs Nick Gubbins as a possible opener too, but we canât be picking a player called Gubbins, clearly.
are they definitely going to be fit? Any chance of them going with Bairstow at 5 and Jossy Jos at 7? Big fat Samit Patel?
Oh Ben Foakes is from Colchester
GET HIM ON THE PLANE!
Englandâs Women have just smashed 377, noice
Anderson is bowling as we speak. I think Broad will be fit. The Josster, I dunno, donât see him in the squad at the moment, but could be wrong.
Mark Cosgrove must qualify for England by now if you really must have a fatty in the squad, has about as good a chance as Samit of being selected too.
Gosh, thatâs a little bit of timber, that is.
Top lad - hope for us all yet!
Oh my!
Samitâs been biffing it around in all forms recently hasnât he?
Still canât get over the interview he gave about how he was going to really commit to getting into shape and focusing on the athletic side of the game, while eating a KFC during the interview
Back to back double centuries in the CC no less, but he (along with the rest of Notts) is just on holiday in div 2 for a year, they were against the might of Leics and Gloucs, two of the shittest bowling attacks assembled in recent memory. He has quite literally no chance of being called up, which is a bit sad really.
Oof. Thatâs a big old score in the womenâs game. One off their best ever, against⌠Pakistan, last year.
Happily for the Pakistan team, theyâre used to it.
Australiaâs Womenâs team seem like they were fairly dominant in the late 90s
Oh jesus fucking humble christ this is bleak
including a 32 ball duck in an ODI, amazing scenes
less than 1 an over for the innings
Oh my. I mean⌠oh my. I hope there were no children present.
âPakistan Women tour of Australia, Only ODI.â Yes, I should think that was probably enough.
Not even their biggest defeat on that tour!
Quite the collapse from the Aussies there.
At the time the PAK-AUS game set world records for the highest and lowest team totals ever! (a more respectable 3rd highest and 2nd lowest ever, now)