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How can playing Crawley for any further matches be good for the team or for him?

Can we just have a non-bazball opener like the unfashionable Compton?

Imagine Root and Bairstow coming in with a half reasonable platform, the opening bowlers through their first spells and the ball blunted.

Just get Buttler in and be done with it. I know it's only T20 but he was in phenomenal form in the IPL and was leading run scorer by a stretch. Having both him and Bairstow in the side is a no-brainer surely if Baz is sure about this approach.
 
I have to confess that I have a prejudice against Potts that I don't fully understand. Something about his face :D

He's actually a great prospect for us. Nagging accuracy. He could be our McGrath.
 
I have to confess that I have a prejudice against Potts that I don't fully understand. Something about his face :D

He's actually a great prospect for us. Nagging accuracy. He could be our McGrath.
Outranks Broad in the pecking order now for me. With more players fit, Broad wouldn't get into my team any more. Likes of Robinson, Wood and Mahmood also ahead of him. (And Archer, but will he ever play again? :()
 
Just get Buttler in and be done with it. I know it's only T20 but he was in phenomenal form in the IPL and was leading run scorer by a stretch. Having both him and Bairstow in the side is a no-brainer surely if Baz is sure about this approach.

Even if McCullum could turn around Buttler’s test mentality he doesn’t have the capacity now he’s the white ball captain. There’s so much cricket now ODIs have even begun to overlap with test series. It’s madness. Talk is Jos is very much a family man and its unlikely he would even if he could.
 
I have to confess that I have a prejudice against Potts that I don't fully understand. Something about his face :D

I have the same irrational, shallow feelings about Bairstow and Sam Curran. It's the complete lack of neck in their cases. Completely wrong I know.
 
It's very gettable if Bairstow continues on his merry way and someone else in the top order can actually figure out how to bat with him.
 
I have the same irrational, shallow feelings about Bairstow and Sam Curran. It's the complete lack of neck in their cases. Completely wrong I know.
Count yourselves lucky - we Surrey members had to look at this a few years back

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Just copied this - sums up the character of Wardy...
David Ward
(1985-1996)


David Ward was a carpenter from Croydon and didn't play his first match for Surrey until he was 24. But for a dozen or so years he was the relaxed, grinning face of a desperately underachieving county, a side studded with stars and fatally short on consistency. On poor days he looked a heavy-footed plodder; on good ones, with his heavy-duty bat offering no mercy, he was well-nigh unstoppable. He scored a remarkable 2,072 first-class runs in 1990, including seven hundreds; he kept wicket with ebullience whenever he was needed, and patrolled the boundary, chatting happily to the spectators, when he wasn't. One May morning in 1994 Alec Stewart declared with Wardy 294 not out; the crowd was livid, the genial pro grinned his unmistakable horsey grin and got on with the job. No one could have guessed it at the time, but he would never score another first-class century.
 
Lees actually looks like he gets the new approach. Zak has clearly been told to leave a bit more, which is a start.
 
If this comes off then it will be vindication for the new approach. Plus confirmation that NZ weren't actually that bad.
 
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