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2nd Test: Australia v West Indies @ Grenada July 4-8

Bazal

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Poor Smithy. Refuses to bat three, now he's sent out a night watchman. He really has lost his nuts
 

Mr. Shaman

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Nice review Usman you plonker.

I like him, thank you for your service, but he can’t be carried in the Ashes, he’s done. Even Labs looked better than he has recently.
 

TheParraboy

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Jesus Khawaja seems lost in so many ways

Has been poor against pace for a good while . Outside that 200 in Galle, has been in the side in reputation. Which is fine to a point…

I always thought , even before he played test cricket. That Konstas wasn’t ready for that form.

Our solution for the ashes is to bring back Marnus , take that to the bank
 

King-Gutho94

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Has been poor against pace for a good while . Outside that 200 in Galle, has been in the side in reputation. Which is fine to a point…

I always thought , even before he played test cricket. That Konstas wasn’t ready for that form.

Our solution for the ashes is to bring back Marnus , take that to the bank
Konstas looks like Lachie Galvin of the Australian cricket team.

All hype but simply isn't ready.
 

Bazal

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I remember the days when we had very good opening batsmen

Uzi has been one of them, let's be honest. His times just up. He's always been an LBW candidate with that fairly lazy trigger movement but now his hands aren't fast enough to bail him out.

I still think he has runs in him on home roads, but I wouldn't be fussed if we went in a different direction either. Again, we've done this to ourselves with our poor selection policies
 

Chins

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Uzi has been one of them, let's be honest. His times just up. He's always been an LBW candidate with that fairly lazy trigger movement but now his hands aren't fast enough to bail him out.

I still think he has runs in him on home roads, but I wouldn't be fussed if we went in a different direction either. Again, we've done this to ourselves with our poor selection policies
We don't have any openers.

SOS Lil Davey
 

Twizzle

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Uzi has been one of them, let's be honest. His times just up. He's always been an LBW candidate with that fairly lazy trigger movement but now his hands aren't fast enough to bail him out.

I still think he has runs in him on home roads, but I wouldn't be fussed if we went in a different direction either. Again, we've done this to ourselves with our poor selection policies

Agree with most of that. Oozie said he will keep going while he's enjoying it and/or till he gets dropped, but he's not looking to retire any time soon, but yeah, he's a walking LBW as he gets older

I think we may have f**ked with big Sam's head, he did well in his debut but then we dropped him, same with McSweeney. McSweeney was a middle order bat, so what do we do ? Pick him to bat at the top and don't support him.

Why the f**k do we do this ?

Pick and stick and support them till they get through their initial periods, as that way they are more relaxed and bat naturally. I reckon Big Sam is fighting himself mentally every time he goes out to bat now. He has a ton of natural talent otherwise, he wouldn't be there at such a young age.
 

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