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[Herbie66]

All going well Rashid Khan on Thursday will become the youngest Test captain ever in the history of the game in the Bangladesh v Sri Lanka Test.

Tatenda Taibu was 20y 358d when he first captained Zimbabwe

Ian Craig 22y 194d was Australia's youngest ever captain (v South Africa 1957/58) currently 6th youngest on the list

 

[Herbie66]

England Squad for Manchester

Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jofra Archer (Sussex), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Rory Burns (Surrey), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Sam Curran (Surrey), Joe Denly (Kent), Jack Leach (Somerset), Craig Overton (Somerset), Jason Roy (Surrey), Ben Stokes (Durham), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire)

 

[Diabolical]

Khawaja dropped for the fourth test. Smith and Starc come into the XII.

I’m glad the Marsh rumblings didn’t come to anything!

 

[Herbie66]

Khawaja dropped for the fourth test. Smith and Starc come into the XII.

I’m glad the Marsh rumblings didn’t come to anything!

Patto is out as well.

 

[Herbie66]

Khawaja dropped for the fourth test. Smith and Starc come into the XII.

I’m glad the Marsh rumblings didn’t come to anything!

given 5 blokes actually average less than 32.00 , Marsh couldn't do much worse.

Our batting lineup up would have to be one of the worst in international cricket atm.

Hope Smudge is 100%

 

[Herbie66]

India win the 2nd (& final) Test in the West Indies.

120 points for the WTC , 0 for the Windies

 

[Herbie66]

ICC World Test Championship Standings:

Can't trust a source document, West Indies should show 1 series played

 

[Herbie66]

Overton to replace Woakes is England's only change.

Denly confirmed to open with Roy @ 4.

 

[Darkie]

Decent recovery so far. Labuschagne doing well again ... would like to see him kick on.

 

[Herbie66]

so does Timmy open himself at The Oval ? or do we go back to Bancroft and pick Khawaja as a opener ?

 

[Herbie66]

Afghanistan's Rashid Khan became the youngest ever Test skipper when he led his team out for the one-off Test against Bangladesh in Chittagong on Thursday. The leg spinner, at 20 years and 350 days, overtook the record of Zimbabwe's Tatenda Taibu, who in 2004 made his debut as captain just eight days older than Rashid.

 

[Herbie66]

Qais Ahmad on test debut v Bangladesh

Bangladesh have gone in with a all spin attack plus 8 batsmen (3 of who can bowl spin)

wonder what the pitch will do ? Rashid, Nabi, Qais & Zahir might have some fun of their own

 

[Diabolical]

https://twitter.com/i/events/1169293810808967168

 

[Herbie66]

Rahmat Shah 102 , first ever Test century by a Afghanistan batsmen

 

[Herbie66]

Century # 26 for Smudge

 

[Herbie66]

Thank god he knocked back Surrey's offer and the option of playing for England.

Root & Smith in the same lineup would have been interesting

 

[Diabolical]

Channel 90 much easier to watch than Channel 7 for me now!

 

[jaca]

This Smith chap is quite good at cricket.

 

[OzRulesFootball]

Crazy, this series had everything.
Smith is a freak.

 

[Beg2Differ]

I made a prediction out loud to a colleague when Smith was first picked as a specialist batsmen rather than a leggie. That prediction was that he wouldn’t last 3 tests because he had the technique of a tailender and would get found out.