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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 21 Jul 15 4.02pm Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

So it's Ballance out and Bairstow in with Bell and Root moving up a place and Bairstow batting at five.

Let's hope that Bell rediscovers his form pretty quickly as if Lyth lasts as long as normal Bell will be facing a nice hard shiny new ball being bowled by a fresh, well rested fast bowler

 

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View Willo's Profile Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 21 Jul 15 4.15pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Quote Ian J at 21 Jul 2015 4.02pm

So it's Ballance out and Bairstow in with Bell and Root moving up a place and Bairstow batting at five.

Let's hope that Bell rediscovers his form pretty quickly as if Lyth lasts as long as normal Bell will be facing a nice hard shiny new ball being bowled by a fresh, well rested fast bowler

Think Lyth is in the "Last chance saloon".

 

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Hoof Hearted 21 Jul 15 5.30pm

Quote Ian J at 21 Jul 2015 4.02pm

So it's Ballance out and Bairstow in with Bell and Root moving up a place and Bairstow batting at five.

Let's hope that Bell rediscovers his form pretty quickly as if Lyth lasts as long as normal Bell will be facing a nice hard shiny new ball being bowled by a fresh, well rested fast bowler


Bell and Lyth looked more out of touch than Balance!

Typical half-arsed response from the England selectors.

Keeping those two in the team and actually promoting Bell up the order to 3 is just plain stupidity.

 

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 21 Jul 15 5.45pm Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Quote Hoof Hearted at 21 Jul 2015 5.30pm


Bell and Lyth looked more out of touch than Balance!

Typical half-arsed response from the England selectors.

Keeping those two in the team and actually promoting Bell up the order to 3 is just plain stupidity.

As they say, form is temporary whilst class in permanent and Ian Bell is a class player so let's hope that he rediscovers his touch pretty quickly.

It would help players like Bell and Lyth if the ECB brought in bowlers like Tymal Mills and Mark Footitt as net bowlers with the former being the closest that we've got to Mitch Johnson


 

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chateauferret Flag 21 Jul 15 8.52pm

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Bell and Lyth looked more out of touch than Balance!

Typical half-arsed response from the England selectors.

Keeping those two in the team and actually promoting Bell up the order to 3 is just plain stupidity.

It's a pathetic bottle job. Lyth couldn't have been more sh!te in that second test, Ballance has gone well off the boil and Bell's time has run out. They've dumped one batsman pour encourager les autres, by the looks of it, and are presumably supposing that that plus a few strong b0llockings will be enough to make them get there arses in gear.

Looking forward then to another instalment of The Muppets.

 


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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 22 Jul 15 7.38am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Quote chateauferret at 21 Jul 2015 8.52pm

It's a pathetic bottle job. Lyth couldn't have been more sh!te in that second test, Ballance has gone well off the boil and Bell's time has run out. They've dumped one batsman pour encourager les autres, by the looks of it, and are presumably supposing that that plus a few strong b0llockings will be enough to make them get there arses in gear.

Looking forward then to another instalment of The Muppets.

Listening to the opinions of various cricket experts after the Lords Test people like Nasser Hussain and David Lloyd said that it would be wrong to drop Lyth and he needed to spend the off week learning which balls to leave.

In fact the only person that I can recall suggesting that Lyth should be replaced was Bob Willis and he always likes to be contrary


 

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Hoof Hearted 22 Jul 15 10.56am

Anyways....... it is what it is and we have to put up with it.

I doubt that we'll see much improvement in Bell and Lyth, but Bairstow has a good heart and will add value compared to Ballance.

The Aussies tails will be up, so we're in for a torrid time batting and need a good start.

 

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View fed up eagle's Profile fed up eagle Flag Between Horley, Surrey and Preston... 22 Jul 15 11.38am Send a Private Message to fed up eagle Add fed up eagle as a friend

Lythe should have gone too. He clearly ain't up to the job. Sadly it looks like the selectors are waiting until we're 2-1 down in the series until taking the action they should. Lythe just ain't up to the job, it's as simple as that. Bell is out of form but is a class player when he's on top of his game. There are better options than Lythe, Taylor for example, even Eoin Morgan would do a better job than Lythe, hell even I would do better than Lythe, I couldn't do any worse.

 

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Quote Willo at 21 Jul 2015 4.15pm

Quote Ian J at 21 Jul 2015 4.02pm

So it's Ballance out and Bairstow in with Bell and Root moving up a place and Bairstow batting at five.

Let's hope that Bell rediscovers his form pretty quickly as if Lyth lasts as long as normal Bell will be facing a nice hard shiny new ball being bowled by a fresh, well rested fast bowler

[u]Think Lyth is in the "Last chance saloon".


He's been in some sort of saloon pissing it up, the way he's been playing the incompetent muppet.

 

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Quote fed up eagle at 22 Jul 2015 11.38am

Lythe should have gone too. He clearly ain't up to the job. Sadly it looks like the selectors are waiting until we're 2-1 down in the series until taking the action they should. Lythe just ain't up to the job, it's as simple as that. Bell is out of form but is a class player when he's on top of his game. There are better options than Lythe, Taylor for example, even Eoin Morgan would do a better job than Lythe, hell even I would do better than Lythe, I couldn't do any worse.

Seeing off the new ball requires a different technique and the players that you have mentioned as suitable replacements are middle order players not openers.
Not only that but Eoin Morgan is only just holding onto his place in the Middlesex side by the skin of his teeth as he doesn't even reach double figures in most games that he's played this season

 

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Quote Ian J at 22 Jul 2015 1.02pm

Quote fed up eagle at 22 Jul 2015 11.38am

Lythe should have gone too. He clearly ain't up to the job. Sadly it looks like the selectors are waiting until we're 2-1 down in the series until taking the action they should. Lythe just ain't up to the job, it's as simple as that. Bell is out of form but is a class player when he's on top of his game. There are better options than Lythe, Taylor for example, even Eoin Morgan would do a better job than Lythe, hell even I would do better than Lythe, I couldn't do any worse.

Seeing off the new ball requires a different technique and the players that you have mentioned as suitable replacements are middle order players not openers.
Not only that but Eoin Morgan is only just holding onto his place in the Middlesex side by the skin of his teeth as he doesn't even reach double figures in most games that he's played this season


Very true, but my point being that he can only be an improvement on Lythe. The Aussies have Lythe totally sussed. Morgan will find form again and on his day he's a thoroughly decent attacking batsman. Either way Lythe has to go as effectively we're playing with one less wicket than them with him in the team. They'll just have to re-jig the order and move some players up. There are no obvious options to go in at number two, but Lythe certainly isn't an option-He's CRAP!

 

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I've just been informed that for the first time in 139 Test Matches, or since 2004 for those playing along at home, England's team will not contain a player born somewhere in Africa.

Good for you England; well played.

 


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