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[Connoisseur]

Imagine if Hazelwood is ready for Sydney. Can you really drop Boland now?

Let him rest up for the next series as there is no need to return.

 

[Tamuhawk]

Imagine if Hazelwood is ready for Sydney. Can you really drop Boland now?

For Rogers sake, rest Hazelwood. 😁

 

[Herbie66]

Hopefully we do more of it and stop our precious stubborn selection of the same bowling attack.

Perfect time to blood Swepson next test.

Totally agree , cost us the Indian series last season.

To think 12 months ago it was Abbott , Neser & Pattinson as the back ups.

Steketee selected for the SA tour , Richardson went to NZ.

And now Boland arrives

 

[tso]

Oh dear

 

[Tamuhawk]

Ashes sealed up with 8 mins before I need to get to work. Not a bad start to the morning 🤣

 

[Connoisseur]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1475624705155502082

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1475630157956190208

 

[Herbie66]

Hopefully we do more of it and stop our precious stubborn selection of the same bowling attack.

Perfect time to blood Swepson next test.

Swepson with GOAT ? or Swepson solo ?

Green as the 3rd seamer

Tours of Pakistan , Sri Lanka & India next year certainly need to give him a opportunity to see what he is capable of (obviously completely different conditions)

 

[Ironhawk]

Well that was fun...

I feel a bit sorry for the people at my work who were going today, just the 2 hours or so of drinking, not even a full session.

Well done to Boland on the 6 fa, but not exactly much opposition.

 

[Shannon]

England have equalled their record of 54 ducks in a year, from 1998.

Joe Root has passed 1,700 runs in 2021. England's next best has 530.

Except for Root, their batting is absolutely terrible.

 

[Herbie66]

54 ducks in the calendar year equals their own record.

But in all seriousness where do they go from here ?

Lawrence is their only remaining batsman in the Squad , go back to Burns & Pope ?

Go outside the Squad and get players from the Big Bash ?

Lions gone home , no match practice before Sydney & Hobart.

Catch Covid and fly home.

 

[Connoisseur]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1475631810935590915

 

[Shannon]

54 ducks in the calendar year equals their own record.

But in all seriousness where do they go from here ?

Lawrence is their only remaining batsman in the Squad , go back to Burns & Pope ?

Go outside the Squad and get players from the Big Bash ?

Lions gone home , no match practice before Sydney & Hobart.

Catch Covid and fly home.

Do they go back to Vince?

Always looks good when I see him bat in the big bash.

 

[Connoisseur]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1475631368134553608

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1475634289110749190

 

[Shannon]

Does Cummins retain his spot for the next test?

He didn’t take a wicket in the 2nd innings😜

 

[Herbie66]

Do they go back to Vince?

Always looks good when I see him bat in the big bash.

2 half centuries in 2017/18 and still only averaged 26.89

Test average of < 25 , certainly hope they don't pick players on how good they look in T20 domestic comps.

Might not have anything else though.

Think this is a major problem in their domestic setup too many of their batsman are chasing T20 contracts around the world.

 

[Woosie]

haha so funny

Boland and the lady must stand 1.5 metres apart

all the media taking photos crouching/standing over each other.

perhaps they are not in any bubbles?

 

[Connoisseur]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1475629063486287875

 

[tso]

Do they go back to Vince?

Always looks good when I see him bat in the big bash.

 

[Beg2Differ]

Nothing against Boland but how does this make any sense? Cummins obviously comes in but why drop both Richardson and Neser. Don’t get it.

This aged well.

No wonder I can’t generally get close in fantasy comps.

 

[Ironhawk]

Should the Aussies just go for 11 bowlers in Sydney? Rotate the keeper if needed. Seems England have picked no batters for this series, so make things a bit fairer.