Winter Tour playing Pakistan & South Africa

[captainfog]

Compton, ****ing hell.

And Rashid dropped for Patel

It's like we are back to the 90's lottery style selection process.

I'm all for Compton coming back in. He's probably only going to be back up for Hales but the guy should never have been dropped in the first place. Patel is ****, but he's there as backup for Moeen and almost certainly won't play. We're not going to pick two spinners and Rashid can only really operate as an international cricketer as a second spinner. He bowls too many full tosses and long hops to be the main guy.

[Chazza]

Rashid has all the tools to be an international cricketer as suggested by Warne for one but if he is going to keep getting binned off after one series we will never know if he can improve.

It's not like he can't bat either as we seem to have an obsession with batting down to 9 or 10.

[captainfog]

Rashid has all the tools to be an international cricketer as suggested by Warne for one but if he is going to keep getting binned off after one series we will never know if he can improve.

It's not like he can't bat either as we seem to have an obsession with batting down to 9 or 10.

Rashid is good at batting though, that's not the issue. The issue is his bowling. He's too slow and too expensive to be our only spinner. Personally I'd like to see us play two spinners (and so pick Rashid) by having Mo bat at 5 or 6.

[Chazza]

Buttler 116no from 52 balls

102 for Roy

Pakistan set 356 to win.

[Shaggy]

Unreal. When you look at that batting line up - Roy, Hales, Buttler, Morgan...plus Root (!), it's ****ing brutal.

[redmike65]

Obviously not brutal and Morgan is a one day hero!

[Shaggy]

brutal
ˈbruːt(ə)l/
adjective
savagely violent.

[redmike65]

Jasus I've lived in Ireland for so many years now I don't know what some words mean any more! (Brutal - terrible, awful)

[Shaggy]

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[Chazza]

Pakistan going alright.

162-3 off 23 overs.

[Chazza]

Maybe not

[Shaggy]

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[Alex]

Seeing it laid out it looks like a carefully crafted innings. In reality it was a complete destruction of a cricket ball.

[Chazza]

Bit of chat about scrapping the coin toss and letting the away captain choose.

England limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan believes plans to scrap the toss in some County Championship games next season will benefit the national team.

The England and Wales Cricket Board is considering the proposals, which are designed to encourage counties to produce a better standard of pitches.

"I'm all for playing on wickets where there's no advantage to batting or bowling first," said Morgan.

"It poses challenges for the batters, more so towards the end of the game."

Morgan, whose side are preparing for a three-match Twenty20 series against Pakistan, also believes the proposals - which are likely to be trialled in Division Two of the domestic four-day game - would encourage spin bowlers.

"If it's to improve the standard of wickets that we play on, and potentially produce a couple of wickets where spin might be conducive to that particular ground, I think absolutely," Morgan, 29, told BBC Test Match Special.

"The benefit in county cricket might not be at the very beginning, but potentially for younger guys coming through - they'll develop different skills which will in turn give them a greater base, if they do get picked for England, to play around the world and do it successfully."

[EwarWoo]

I think it would be fantastic. No more doctored pitches