Is the England Lions tour continuing? Send Pat to get a few overs under the belt in that.
Edit - no, looks like they’re done. Which makes sense, can’t pull a PM’s 11 together and interfere with the BBL.
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If (and that’s a paranoid if, i.e. not wanting raz the boyz in any way) we’re def got the Ashes safe, then would they take the Sydney Test as an option to blood a few young 'uns?
You’d want the spine there .. so Lab, Smith, Green, Carey, Starc, Pat and I suppose Lyon. But if Trav wants to step away for the sake of development and Inglis is stood down … and why not two spinners, so a Kunhneman or Murphy in. A Richardson or Bartlett as the 3rd quick. And maybe Weatherald with Kellaway to open and maybe McSweeney back at 5 or 6?
Dunno, not a doctor but would love to see a few young guns get a crack at the Poms before they scarpa back to the UK in a dead rubber.
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WBBL elimination final has just started with the Scorchers playing the Stars at the WACA. Beth Mooney at the crease with the Scorchers batting first.
We don’t play another test until September. I doubt they will blood anyone else this series but it’s going to look a very different team within 2 years
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He gets a big annual ECB contract and bowls about 40 overs every year. What’s the difference?
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Mark Wood… Playing golf with Uzi was he ?
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Yes Slug got a game, but he didn’t make runs, so now is he just in the pile with all the other batters. My view is that if he had played another Shield game between the first test and the Australia A game and made a ton, his position would have been very different to where he now sits.
Wow Sportsbet are now forced to pay out on the $1.01 odds of this happening
Ssh! Don’t let them get any ideas about changing what they are doing now.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Great to see the Poms have rewarded their form bowler in the touring Lions squad with a position in the test squad. Matthew Fisher is his name and he has played one test taking a single wicket back in 2022 just before the Bazball revolution/cult started.
2 wickets in his 3 tour games is red hot form
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Craig McDermott wore a watch. I reckon there was someone from South Africa who did too. Not many!
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Ritchie Richardson wore one sometimes
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That certainly looked the case at the Gabba, your theory is well supported by his bowling efforts.
That would be exceeding the English template, Cummins would then run the risk of being over prepared.
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I wonder why they felt the need to do so. Is Archer’s just another piece of bling?
A clear case of the result of being over prepared which will later be spun into some convoluted moral victory when the rest of the team come home.
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“Well yes Jonathan, on the surface the 0-5 scorecard does look a bit underwhleming, but you do have to factor in the loss of our spearhead bowler in Woody. His loss placed an incredible workload on Arch, Carsey and the others, which was unfair really. Had he been available for the entire series I feel confident the result would have been 3-2 or 4-1 in our favour”.
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Australia squad for third Test: Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Brendan Doggett, Cameron Green, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Michael Neser, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Jake Weatherald, Beau Webster
Usman is back in isn’t he
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Bloody hope not.
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