awesome dawson
Mitchell Thomas
Those stats are quite eye-opening, it doesn't seem 5 minutes to me since Anderson went past Botham's 383, with Beefy there watching...
Time flies.
Anderson is getting close to 40!
Those stats are quite eye-opening, it doesn't seem 5 minutes to me since Anderson went past Botham's 383, with Beefy there watching...
Time flies.
Anderson is getting close to 40!
1st Test v Pakistan starts in 30 minutes
England have lost the 1st test in 8 out of the last 10 series, that's terrible
Mind you Pakistan have had no warm up games or anything so could be rusty
Stokes a big injury doubt, hope he plays just for his batting and fielding
F’ing Manchester tests!!! First job of the ECB is to get hotels built on all southern test grounds so we never have to play another test at Old Trafford and lose countless hours to the pathetic Manchester weather.
I fail the Tebbit test during this fixture. I'm England for everything except this game where my loyalties go the way my father raised me. The love of Pakistan cricket.
That aside, cracking match so far. Buttler has had an awful game but Pakistan have played well.
I can’t believe Butler has only got one century in over forty tests. I know he has his critics, but he can be a special player on his day and should have more to show for it than one century. Woakes has got the same number of centuries in less tests.....
Should be FoakesJust a shocking wicket keeper
He’s been solid enough behind the stumps in the last year or so to be fair, but he had a shocker there! That batting performance may just have saved him, it’s exactly what he’s in the team for. Another game behind the stumps like that though and he’ll be dropped IMO.Just a shocking wicket keeper
He’s been solid enough behind the stumps in the last year or so to be fair, but he had a shocker there! That batting performance may just have saved him, it’s exactly what he’s in the team for. Another game behind the stumps like that though and he’ll be dropped IMO.
I said before the Windies series that I’d have Foakes in there, quality keeper and solid batsmen.
I do really like Butler though, x-factor player.
Foster, now there was a wickie!!! Just a shame his batting wasn’t quite up to international standard (prob equivalent ability to a Dom Bess, good, but you want your Wk batting higher really?).He could be in for his bating but he was right, you drop someone which costs 50 runs then you out pressure on yourself to make that up with bat, he can't do that every game.
That's why I would always have had a Foster or now Foakes