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TPFNAC said:
Pressure really on Bairstow in this game, hes not doing well with the gloves or the bat
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You would think so but I suspect that he's already been told that he's in for the series. The only exception may be if England lose this match and therefore the series they may be tempted to have a look at somebody different for the last match - Rew maybe? I don't seen Foakes being recalled at all this series short of an injury with the series tied at 2-2.
 
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Riever said:
You would think so but I suspect that he's already been told that he's in for the series. The only exception may be if England lose this match and therefore the series they may be tempted to have a look at somebody different for the last match - Rew maybe? I don't seen Foakes being recalled at all this series short of an injury with the series tied at 2-2.
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I agree, I think Bairstow is here till the end. Hoping he gets some form back.

Foakes I don't think ever gets in unless there is a huge rethink
 
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Riever said:
You would think so but I suspect that he's already been told that he's in for the series. The only exception may be if England lose this match and therefore the series they may be tempted to have a look at somebody different for the last match - Rew maybe? I don't seen Foakes being recalled at all this series short of an injury with the series tied at 2-2.
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Yes, I buy into bazball by and large.

Also yes Bairstow played some great innings last season. He has since then broken his leg and not surprisingly put on weight
So it's also not surprising that he has not regained his batting or his wicketkeeping form.

Judging by his stats above he alone might have cost us the first two tests. Not that the catching by his other team members has been outstanding either
At least 14 or 15 drops I believe?


Catches win matches.
 
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I think JB has been on the heavy side since before his injury. It didn't affect him before his injury and I think that's part of what gives him his huge power with the bat.
I think the strain of "squatting" for long periods behind the stumps after a big injury must be difficult.
Apparently his batting average dips on a 2nd innings...maybe due to fatigue of wicket keeping. He doesn't appear to be IMO the most nimble because of his size.
If he was batting anywhere near like he was last summer nobody would be mentioning dropped catches or missed stumpings.
 
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Mackem-Tiz said:
I think JB has been on the heavy side since before his injury. It didn't affect him before his injury and I think that's part of what gives him his huge power with the bat.
I think the strain of "squatting" for long periods behind the stumps after a big injury must be difficult.
Apparently his batting average dips on a 2nd innings...maybe due to fatigue of wicket keeping. He doesn't appear to be IMO the most nimble because of his size.
If he was batting anywhere near like he was last summer nobody would be mentioning dropped catches or missed stumpings.
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True... but he would be picked for his batting and then have a better wicketkeeper. Alec Stewart was the last all rounder wicketkeeper batsman?
 
Sunderpitt said:
True... but he would be picked for his batting and then have a better wicketkeeper. Alec Stewart was the last all rounder wicketkeeper batsman?
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There's a case for Foakes or another proven WK to be selected and JB either opens the bat or plays in middle order. We are having to play both Woakes and Ali cos stokes can't bowl...meaning there isn't the scope to do what I've just suggested tho...unless one of the openers are dropped.
 
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Mackem-Tiz said:
There's a case for Foakes or another proven WK to be selected and JB either opens the bat or plays in middle order. We are having to play both Woakes and Ali cos stokes can't bowl...meaning there isn't the scope to do what I've just suggested tho...unless one of the openers are dropped.
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Yeah, sorry I forgot our Captain all-rounder can't bowl atm.
 
Mackem-Tiz said:
I think JB has been on the heavy side since before his injury. It didn't affect him before his injury and I think that's part of what gives him his huge power with the bat.
I think the strain of "squatting" for long periods behind the stumps after a big injury must be difficult.
Apparently his batting average dips on a 2nd innings...maybe due to fatigue of wicket keeping. He doesn't appear to be IMO the most nimble because of his size.
If he was batting anywhere near like he was last summer nobody would be mentioning dropped catches or missed stumpings.
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Johnny has definitely got a bit of Timber on now, and had it last year when he was scoring multiple, blistering hundreds. But he wasn't keeping last summer.

I think Foakes will play in India, where standing up is crucial. This is the area he far exceeds Bairstow in.
 
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True... but he would be picked for his batting and then have a better wicketkeeper. Alec Stewart was the last all rounder wicketkeeper batsman?
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Matt Prior was a batter who kept wicket occasionally. He used to get picked for the ODI side as a specialist batter
 
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Does anyone know why commentators have to call them “batters” but can still refer to them as “he” and not “they”? fir me, it simply doesn’t make sense!
 
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marcusblackcat said:
Does anyone know why commentators have to call them “batters” but can still refer to them as “he” and not “they”? fir me, it simply doesn’t make sense!
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Just another appropriation of the language, pathetically grasped by all on the telly.

It's to do with not being able to call a woman batter a batsman. So just don't you would think, call her a batter. Call them all batters if you want. Or don't. You would think such a simple thing would be a matter for each of us.

But the absolutists of the left, in this case embodied by the oleaginous Stephen Fry at the ECB, never brook any compromise. He has said he would like to "eradicate" such language

George Orwell died not knowing how damming and prescient his work was.
 
Aussies packing their batting by leaving Murphy out for Green. Sounds like they'd be happy with a draw

Hope it turns sideways at OT
 
For anyone interested...I've been following two Aussie lads on YouTube called The grade Cricketer.
They are honestly hilarious. Sam Perry and Ian Higgins. They give the Aussie side of things and are just 2 normal fellas. Throughout the Ashes I tune into them before anything else lol.
 
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