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Post by newby on Jun 29, 2024 20:06:58 GMT
With the test team against the Windies due to be announced tomorrow it seems to have been 'leaked' that Jamie Smith of Surrey will take the gloves, rather than his team mate and full time Surrey keeper Ben Foakes.
Have they leaked it to give the Sundays something else to write about rather than the T20 WC exit.
I would also be surprised if YJB survives in his batsman only role. Interesting to see if he just disappears to franchise cricket or comes back to Yorkshire to fight for his place back.
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Post by donnylad on Jun 29, 2024 21:58:45 GMT
Chap plays for Slurrey - bound to be OK old boy - pass me a G & T.
I wonder (like a lot of others) what Robinson the Durham keeper has to do to get noticed. He was born in Sidcup = that's nearly in Slurrey isn't it? Ah only went to a grammar school not the cricketer assembly line at Whitgift.
Explains everything.
I hope the lad does well. However it shows the desperation of the E*C*B*s and Foakes should probably take up quick bowling if he wants to play for England again.
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Post by newby on Jun 30, 2024 10:49:19 GMT
Bit of a changing of the guard with Dillon Pennington and Gus Atkinson as the new great hopes to replace Anderson/Broad.
No place for Ollie Robinson the bowler, with Woakes returning for a home series. No spot for Jack Leach either, instead they have gone for Shoaib Bashir, whether for his bowling or for other reasons I don't know.
End of the road for Jonnie Bairstow! we will have to see.
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Post by byased on Jun 30, 2024 19:35:38 GMT
Seems odd to pick a Surrey reserve keeper, seemingly based purely on his batting. Not great news for the purist type wicketkeeper. It is easy keeping on good wickets, but there will be times when a bit more technical skill is needed on less predictable surfaces. Never actually heard of the new chap, but let's hope he is a good un.
I hear Foakes is not a particularly likeable bloke which may go against him despite his undoubted abilities
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Post by tykemania on Jun 30, 2024 20:14:49 GMT
A very interesting, may I even go so far as to say controversial selection.
The wicketkeepers first. I don't per se mind that they want to move on from Foakes/YJB. That said, whilst I like what I have seen of Smith, who bats with power and style, it seems a strange call to select him ahead of two other young wicketkeepers - James Rew at Somerset I suppose is a year or so short of being quite ready for the top level, but the Durham Ollie Robinson is the absolute mustard both with the bat (more runs, at an equivalent run rate to Smith) and much the more the complete keeper of the two. He must have been gutted.
Now to Jonny - because he should have been considered as a batsman rather than keeper. I'm not sure if he has been told the time has come - if he has, I think it is terrible that he has not been allowed a farewell test like Anderson has - or has been left out at this time. Realistically, given they believe Pope walks on water, he was only gunning for the reserve spot, so the question will be whether he has the fight in him to battle for his place back.
Finally the bowling. No Wood (odd) or Robinson (also odd - he must have failed some arbitrary fitness requirement) and most oddly for me, no Olly Stone. Pennington looks an okay bowler but is very much untested, and Atkinson is also a hunch pick. Thankfully we have two of the easier series to blood these guys.
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Post by newby on Jun 30, 2024 21:29:50 GMT
If they like Smith's batting so much then surely they should just pick him as a batter and give the Durham Ollie Robinson the shot with the Gloves his performances this season seem to suggest he deserves.
Stone is unlucky I think.
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