summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Morgan, Stokes, Buttler and Ali to come - one tasty middle order that.
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Frang
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Wickets change games
It's not like we don't collapse is it... I'm saying nowt!
Stokes will be knackered from the bowling effort
And we get lucky as I type!
Minimeister
Player Valuation: £35m
WIndies on the way to sorting their batting and bowling but won't be beating any of the top sides with their fielding the way it is.
Billysgingham.
Player Valuation: £40m
England whacking Windies all over the place.
Minimeister
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I thought Chris Gayle would be the weak link in their fielding but this Nurse bloke makes him look like Jonty Rhodes.
southwalestoffee
Player Valuation: £100k
Some poor fielding by the Windies , but can't fault our boys
southwalestoffee
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Roooooooot , welldone boys 
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
The start proved the Windies undoing. Far too sedate in the opening 10 overs, allied to some poor fielding meant the result was never in doubt.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
One of the great one day chases that. Won't get recognised as such because it was made to look easy, but England really didn't get out of first gear, it was plain sailing the whole way through, always ahead of the run rate and would have won it much earlier and much more convincingly if they wanted to. Another powerful message ahead of the world cup.
Wish we could replicate the limited overs form in actual test crickets.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I feel for the bowlers in ODI's : dead pitches, 2 bouncers per over, stringent definition of wides, short boundaries and restrictions on field placings. It can be a bit numbing seeing so many boundaries ; get a bit of life in the pitches to even the balance between bat and ball.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Archer for Plunkett looks so obvious for the World Cup.
Jason Roy reminds me very much of David Warner, he has the technique and temperament to make a success of test cricket too.
Trevor Bayliss has already said he's one for the ashes and his red ball form for Surrey in the last two championship games just confirmed it.
I've been posting on him as a contender from well before the sri Lanka series he should have played in the tests here and Ed Smith the chief selector is known to really rate him.
(The less said about dropping the catch off Gayle the better lol)
Jason Roy reminds me very much of David Warner, he has the technique and temperament to make a success of test cricket too.
Trevor Bayliss has already said he's one for the ashes and his red ball form for Surrey in the last two championship games just confirmed it.
I've been posting on him as a contender from well before the sri Lanka series he should have played in the tests here and Ed Smith the chief selector is known to really rate him.
(The less said about dropping the catch off Gayle the better lol)
The thing about him is if he is able to be disciplined and see off the new ball in test cricket, he could be devastating at the top order.
arminisgod
Player Valuation: £35m
The problem with Roy is that he doesn't open for Surrey in 4 day cricket.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Noone in county cricket faces any real pace at all, facing 70mph trundlers in front of a smattering of spectators tells absolutely noone that you're adequately prepared for test cricket and could cope with 90mph pace merchants in front of a hostile, or even supportive, big match crowd with its expectation and buildup.
Rather like David Warner, another who converted from white ball cricket and is now a top quality test opener, although in his case tarnished by his disreputable behaviour, Roy takes a big stride forward and back and has a slightly leg side technique, he is used to the big match buildup, pressure and expectation and faces very quick bowling regularly. He's far more adequately prepared to play test cricket, ideally at 3, but even as opener, than almost every other candidate we have.
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