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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Apr 11, 2016.

  1. tomw24

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    PSL has been postponed due to coronavirus outbreak. So Vince will be flying home sooner than expected.
     
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    Those Sri Alaskans are pretty cool.
     
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    <doh>:emoticon-0111-blush
     
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    Hampshire have signed Abbas for the first 2 months of the season. I feel a bit sorry for Leicestershire. First week in April and they'll have Abbott and Abbas bowling at them.
     
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    So unless we make any other signings (which I doubt), Hants should have a line up of:

    Alsop
    Holland
    Vince
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    Donald
    Dawson
    McManus
    Barker
    Abbott
    Crane
    Abbas

    Crane may be omitted at the start of the season for Fuller or Wheal but we've got 4 seamers in that line up as it is. I'm assuming Donald is fit after his injury but I think that should be our first choice side. I think there's good balance to that XI.
     
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    Very much depends of who they want to keep wicket.

    They could give Alsop the gloves, drop him down to 7, and open with Weatherley.

    Just need to keep fingers crossed that nothing goes awry with Abbott - eg he gets over here with enough time to quarantine.
     
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    The game is now getting away from England. Bad times.
     
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    Think this is the last time we see Bess play for England, at least for a while anyway
     
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    Not just yet, with them batting last we still have a chance; providing that we clean them up when Anderson gets the new ball in 1 over ... which isn't looking likely now <laugh>
     
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    We need wickets NOW !
     
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    I’m OK with this as I now want India to win the series 3-1. England are out of the running for the Test Championship final against New Zealand, so it’s down to either India or Australia qualifying. So India need to win or draw the final Test.
     
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    Credit where it’s due , Pant is some player !
     
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    And Jimmy’s got him!
     
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    This game is already gone. If we make 150 second innings I will be shocked.
     
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    Yep - but he’s done enough to take it away I fear ..... what an innings .... would be nice if we could have someone get a score like that in the 2nd innings.
    Clearly Joe doesn’t rate Dom Bess .... :emoticon-0112-wonde
     
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    Whereas he seems to have an unhealthy reliance on Ben Stokes, who is clearly done for the day but keeps on bowling. Just don’t get it.
     
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    When I saw the team, I was worried that we didn’t have enough in the bowling armoury. Our problem is that our players don’t come up against really good spin bowling in the county game and we don’t have a really high class spinner. So we’re always going to struggle down in India, Pakistan, etc .....
     
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    And counties like Somerset get deducted points for preparing wickets where spinners can excel, so the exponents of the art are few and far between.
     
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    India 294-7 at stumps, lead by 89. England will do well to make this match last longer than 3 days.
     
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