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Agreed. I’d shift Buttler to WKP and move Bairstow to someone else.
Maybe Ali Cook is still available?!
Maybe Ali Cook is still available?!
Sir Alistair would be better than Roy , Denly doesn't look much either.
Couple of young openers making county runs so maybe Roy bats 4.
Is Ian Bell still playing ?
Your team has more issues than ours , or are you a Aussie again ? ?
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I do like dark clouds were hovering around just as it was too late for Poms to have any hope of rain coming saving them.
Pretty special win for so many of these players. If you said around two years ago Paine, Wade and Pattinson would be in same team to win Test in England would have got long odds any of them playing Test cricket again. Patto looked like injuries may never let him get back, Wade looked like stamped to never be picked again as keeper (well half of that was right...lol) and Paine was ready to retire from first class cricket and give his damaged fingers a break and take up a career with Kookaburra. Now they are all there. Siddle too may have thought played his last Test. Cummins like Patto at one point had broken down so many times he may never get back. Then there is the trio suspended for 12 months. Warner and Bancroft at times may have thought they never get given a chance again. Smith was always likely to get given another chance.
Just weird probability this exact 11 would play in a Test together and go from 8 for 122 on day one to winning the same Test by over 250 runs.
Crazy!!!!
Pretty special win for so many of these players. If you said around two years ago Paine, Wade and Pattinson would be in same team to win Test in England would have got long odds any of them playing Test cricket again. Patto looked like injuries may never let him get back, Wade looked like stamped to never be picked again as keeper (well half of that was right...lol) and Paine was ready to retire from first class cricket and give his damaged fingers a break and take up a career with Kookaburra. Now they are all there. Siddle too may have thought played his last Test. Cummins like Patto at one point had broken down so many times he may never get back. Then there is the trio suspended for 12 months. Warner and Bancroft at times may have thought they never get given a chance again. Smith was always likely to get given another chance.
Just weird probability this exact 11 would play in a Test together and go from 8 for 122 on day one to winning the same Test by over 250 runs.
Crazy!!!!
Steyn announces retirement from Test cricket
Steyn ends his Test career as South Africa's highest wicket-taker with 439 scalps at an average of just 22.95.
He also has the fifth best strike rate among retired cricketers in Test cricket (qualification: 2000 balls), behind George Lohmann, JJ Ferris, Shane Bond and Sydney Barnes.
One of the absolute modern day greats
Steyn ends his Test career as South Africa's highest wicket-taker with 439 scalps at an average of just 22.95.
He also has the fifth best strike rate among retired cricketers in Test cricket (qualification: 2000 balls), behind George Lohmann, JJ Ferris, Shane Bond and Sydney Barnes.
One of the absolute modern day greats
Jos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes, the reality is they average 34.56, 35.70 and 33.76 respectively. By the high standards of Test cricket, that is modest.
Brendon McCullum, the former New Zealand captain, has called time on his cricket career four years after his international retirement. The ongoing Global T20 Canada, where he is representing the Toronto Nationals, will be his last.