Braggfan
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded
- May 12, 2014
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We’re currently 91 for 3, having rallied after being 39 for 2. I know people are having a go at Cook at the moment, but I think we have bigger problems that Cook’s place in the team. The most worrying thing is the thought process behind our selection, we appear to have absolutely no idea who to pick, we don’t even understand what type of players we need. For starters how have they not figured out Stokes and Woakes can’t play in the same team. Neither is good enough to get in on bowling alone or batting alone, but they do a bit of both so they put them in. They’ve dropped Balance today and moved Ali up to three, which makes no sense as Ali is a better player of spin and they’re now putting him in a position to face pace. People will have opinions over whether Cook or Morgan should be in the side and I accept that they’ll be in or around the side but what really annoys me is that they’re in and there’s no place for Bopara, who has probably been our best one day player for the last year and half two years. And what about Taylor? I think we have an idea of what we want in the Test team and the T20 team, but this ODI is shocking and the lack of a plan of action just doesn’t allow us to get any better as we have nothing to build on.