SpookyFrank
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Jason Roy is a fantastic batsman. He is just not a test batsman.
He must be approaching his top score for the series here.
Jason Roy is a fantastic batsman. He is just not a test batsman.
Average 14, highest 28. Averaged just over 24 balls per innings before today.He must be approaching his top score for the series here.
Come on Bairstow!!..... He's going to be out four now I've said that isn't he!
There will soon be a new head coach for a start, because Trevor Bayliss is leaving after this series. I believe Chris Silverwood has been named as the interim coach for the forthcoming New Zealand tour ahead of a permanent appointment (for which he should be a candidate) with Graham Thorpe and Paul Collingwood as his assistants. How much influence he'll have within the panel of selectors I'm not sure.What chance this series, potentially the first ashes series we've lost at home in ages, will actually lead to wholesale changes in the England set up?
Root's record as test captain is crap but I doubt they'll take the captaincy off him and who else is there to give it to anyway?
No, it must be an imposter.Pink Pamther are you at Old Trafford? They said there was a PP in the crowd on TMS.
And yet selectors have shown, over the years, that they CAN just keep picking guys.You can't just keep picking him.
In fact it's more embarrassing when someone who has never seen the actual Ashes cup claps eyes on it and asks WTF is that? and you have to explain why it means so much despite its challenging size
Buttler's played two fighting innings. Not many runs, no, but he can knuckle down when he needs to. His form's disappointing, but he's not the main problem here imo.Australias batting other than Smith and Labuschagne is shit. Englands is shittier. It is ludicrous that Roy and Buttler were selected for this test with averages for the series in the single figures, especially after a match where the team only put 65 on the board for the first innings. Only Burns, Root and Stokes average more than 30 for the series for England.
Its been done to death and nothings going to change.
(Source: as stated in image)
(Source: as stated in image)
Roy's batting in this series has certainly been consistent so far.