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Chris O'Connor
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You need quite a few demerit points to get banned not usually a sole incident, it's the accumulation of these bad marks that gets you into trouble.
While the incident in itself is hardly one of serious punishment if at all and it's bad for the game that one of the stars misses a test you have to abide by the playing regulations and learn from repeated mistakes, you can't just carry on regardless.
Rabada was on the brink of being banned and should have known he has to be absolutely perfectly behaved or risk falling foul of the match referee's interpretation of the current playing conditions, unfortunately he's a slow learner.
Rather like a player one booking away from a ban, if you're on the brink make sure you give the match referee nothing to look at.
Rabada hopefully may learn his lesson or then again he might possibly carry on being a slow learner.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
On course for 400+.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Ben Stokes starting 2020 as he left off in 2019
What a cricketer
What a cricketer
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Lunch 335-4, 111 runs in the session. England 335-4, Stokes 108, Pope 75. Rain forecast later, so push on in the afternoon and hopefully Pope gets his maiden century.
Nass fuming here.
BigMick
Player Valuation: £20m
England in command at lunch with Stokes and Pope batting through the morning. I thought Sibley looked good yesterday, so much more confident than in his first few games, Crawley less so, although he's done enough to be persisted with and is already showing a glimmer of improvement. It was a poor innings by Denly with the exception of a couple of fine shots. I get the impression he's just batting time rather than looking to score off anything other than a rank bad ball; this may be following instructions but he's a better player than that. Root looked good but was bowled out of the blue - kept a little low. Stokes was solid yesterday, brilliant this morning, and Pope looks a solid, compact player with plenty of shots and confidence - comparisons with Ian Bell are obvious. SA looking flat this morning.
Pope definately has something about him, I actually think Sibley and crawley do as well. Ben Stokes is the best cricketer in the world, complete 3 format player who changes games and has the bottle to back up his talent
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Good point except were it not that he actually isn't the highest scorer in the series
Sky and StarSport must be lying then because that's the graphic they showed before.
Edit: Updated now.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
I saw that and they put Stokes as the top scorer, he had 266 runs at the time.
Sibley has scores 4, 29, 34, 133 and 36 making a total of 236
Stokes has scores 35, 55, 47, 72 and 108* making a total of 317 with one not out
Stokes is clearly well ahead
arminisgod
Player Valuation: £35m
Century for the baby Ian Bell clone
Excellent century for Pope. Looked ultra-comfortable playing with Stokes and think Stokes probably appreciated having someone to rotate with instead of needing his heroics.
We can leave Pope where he is instead of trying to force him up the order.
We can leave Pope where he is instead of trying to force him up the order.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Love it when tailenders give it some welly. England 466-8,Wood 25 off 13 balls, Pope 120.