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I quite liked what someone (can't remember whom) said on TMS: overall England have had the better of the conditions, but Australia have had the most impactful/intensive benefit of the conditions in the two wickets at Edgbaston. I think that's about right. Vaughan has been OTT in dissing England...

I think they took the decision because they knew that Stokes wouldn't be able to bowl much and wanted to have five bowlers available which means that they favoured a 'batsman wicketkeeper' over a 'wicketkeeper batsman'.

Yup. And we know that they're the same people shouting 'get rid' when we're instigating an intricate passing move in the penalty area

Exactly. The notion that we're a one man team is for the birds. There was a reason England were favourites going into the final innings.

Strange time to turn to a young spinner

The state of this thread

I think it will be series defining

On TMS, they raised the idea of opening with Broad and Wood. Not the worst idea. There will be four or five overs. Why not send out those two, with the potential of both getting out cheaply and, equally, the potential of them getting 30 or 40.

TMS saying 7.30

Even without the elbow injury that Sid has mentioned, the general expectation is that Wood is unable to play all of a five match series, especially in one such as this which is very compressed.

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It's the opposite of crap and shit cricket. Broadly I agree with @Greg Bobkin. But where I'm closer to you is that there have been multiple wickets thrown away. If that's Bazball, then it is awful. They have to be bright enough to work out how to play 'winning cricket' without gifting the...

Well, someone's got to be the contrary case. Best at what? In 95 games: Batting average 36.6 Bowling average 32, wickets 197, strike rate 58 Botham, 102 games: Batting 33.5 Bowling 28, wickets 383, strike rate 61 Think that makes Botham quite comfortably the better all-rounder (better slip...

Looking at the weather forecast, I think whoever wins the toss might prove decisive. The weather's great for the first two days, but it looks like a lot of play will be lost on Saturday and Monday, and whoever's batting at that point will have the worse of the conditions. There's also the issue...

Don't disagree with any of that, although here's my but: -- Mooen doesn't seem to score many these days, and IIRC spinners don't tend to bowl much at Headingley so how many overs is he going to get (but agree he is a 'wicket taking' bowler)

I'm less convinced about either myself. The tail looks stronger, but we've lost one specialist batsman from the line-up. The bowling seems to be admission that Stokes is going to bowl precious few overs. I've said this before, we're really missing Leach as he can tie down one end and keep the...