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Henkesghost · 10-08-2013, 12:38

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Originally Posted by Shadow Demon UK

Its about time Broad showed up, hes had a poor series so far.

Broad was instrumental in winning one of the tests

denphone · 10-08-2013, 13:53

Four down now lads.

Henkesghost · 10-08-2013, 15:28

Cook out of ideas again

denphone · 10-08-2013, 15:43

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Originally Posted by Henkesghost

Cook out of ideas again

l have never rated him as captain pure and simple.

Shadow Demon UK · 10-08-2013, 23:13

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Originally Posted by Henkesghost

Broad was instrumental in winning one of the tests

3 wickets in the first test, 1 in the second test. Not my idea of being instrumental at all...

Henkesghost · 11-08-2013, 00:09

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Originally Posted by Shadow Demon UK

3 wickets in the first test, 1 in the second test. Not my idea of being instrumental at all...

With the bat

denphone · 11-08-2013, 05:16

Well at the moment its Australia in the driving seat and England need to make changes for the next test as this side is becoming stale and complacent in my humble opinion.

MalteseFalcon · 11-08-2013, 08:04

Agree. Cook seems to have no other mode than defence. Whilst I agree test cricket is a marathon not a sprint, when it takes someone over 100 balls to hit 50 runs there is something wrong.

For instance, it took Cook 164 balls and just short of 4 hours to pick up 51 runs. In contrast, Rogers got 101 runs from 233 balls yesterday. A vastly superior strike rate to Cook.

denphone · 11-08-2013, 08:37

Indeed and Joe Root seems to be just as bad lately in scoring runs at a snails pace.

MalteseFalcon · 11-08-2013, 09:19

I'm hoping that if we can get Rogers out fairly quickly today, Aussie might fall apart. Knowing our luck, Rogers will go on to score 200 runs before Aussie declare.

denphone · 11-08-2013, 09:49

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Originally Posted by MarkC1984

I'm hoping that if we can get Rogers out fairly quickly today, Aussie might fall apart. Knowing our luck, Rogers will go on to score 200 runs before Aussie declare.

Yes we need wickets to fall quickly this morning to have a chance to still win this game.

Henkesghost · 11-08-2013, 10:16

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Originally Posted by denphone

Yes we need wickets to fall quickly this morning to have a chance to still win this game.

Think it's cloudy, so ball should move a fair bit. If Aussies get 100 ahead we're stuffed

Seems strange to say with England being 2-0 up but they've been poor for me this series

MalteseFalcon · 11-08-2013, 10:26

I've seen plenty of people on Twitter and Facebook saying Cook needs to be replaced as captain ASAP. For me, Vaughan was the best captain England have had in the 21st Century.

denphone · 11-08-2013, 10:33

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Originally Posted by Henkesghost

Think it's cloudy, so ball should move a fair bit. If Aussies get 100 ahead we're stuffed

Seems strange to say with England being 2-0 up but they've been poor for me this series

l agree Henke because in my mind we have been firing at 50% so far in this series and we will need to up that if we are to retain the ashes this winter.

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Originally Posted by MarkC1984

I've seen plenty of people on Twitter and Facebook saying Cook needs to be replaced as captain ASAP. For me, Vaughan was the best captain England have had in the 21st Century.

Indeed Vaughan was excellent but the finest captain we ever had was old Mike Brearley.

MalteseFalcon · 11-08-2013, 10:39

Don't know of him. I only know England cricket from the era of Atherton as captain onwards. Looking at Wiki, since I've been born there have been 16 captains of England.