As much as I think we really missed Hales as high class back up in the world Cup, I do love morgans captaincy
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Chris O'Connor
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Hales is twice the batsman Vince is, pity he was a pr*ck too, says he's learnt but I don't think there's a way back
I rate hale a lot, but you have to back morgan
I hope Morgan decides to give Phil Salt a chance in this series. Think he's gonna be pretty decent.
Chris O'Connor
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Banton has had a few chances in South Africa and another here, he just keeps disappointing and doesn't seem to be able to rotate the strike easily. He's a big hitter who keeps on messing up. i suppose you look long term to 2022 and trust he'll get it right eventually as he has talent.
This must be about the long term, it's just which of these fringe players may get a look in.
This must be about the long term, it's just which of these fringe players may get a look in.
Chris O'Connor
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We know about Roy and Bairstow so these matches tell us little about established team members. Tbh they're absolutely an irrelevance with the World Cup not until 2022. They're maybe only really useful for deciding those we should persist with and those we maybe should think of discarding from among the fringe players.
I for one say bin James Vince, he was awful when subbing in for Roy in the world cup and has had numerous chances now. Sam Billings on the other hand looks a definite keep, but we knew that already really as only injury possibly denied him a world cup place, - ironically in all probability instead of Vince.
I for one say bin James Vince, he was awful when subbing in for Roy in the world cup and has had numerous chances now. Sam Billings on the other hand looks a definite keep, but we knew that already really as only injury possibly denied him a world cup place, - ironically in all probability instead of Vince.
Chris O'Connor
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24 needed off nearly 26 overs, sounds like one for Sibley 
Chris O'Connor
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My excuse is that Ireland lost a bowler through injury.Even with hindsight....
Thought Mahmood bowled well again today. I could see him being an asset in the sub continent in all forms of the game.
Chris O'Connor
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Got it up in the high eighties, he's been earmarked by the England selectors for a big future at international level and has the potential to develop into a real quick. May well have his eye on breaking into the test team and the ashes down under where real pace is what's needed.
Archer, Wood, Stone and Mahmood could be the basis for a battery of pace which can be managed and rotated.
Yes needs to grow a bit more, but looks like he can get the ball to "reverse" as he gets a bit older should only further improve.
Blue Shoes
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Still just seems t20 specialist atm, they should maybe try him at 6 first before he consolidates his team. The options available are crazy though. Now plunkett has gone, I'd like to see sam curran take that role, he has that same knack to pick up vital wickets when needed and is a great bat. But he doesn't seem quite in the frame for one dayers.
Willey was so unlucky to miss out for the world cup and I'd have him right there fighting with woakes looking forward. The batting line up doesn't need to change yet unless the top two start running out of form.
Chris O'Connor
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Sam's brother Tom is seen as the one day specialist and is normally a decent death bowler for those difficult overs right at the end when the batsmen are trying to really stretch their total.
Willey does have a bit of nip with the new ball and was an integral part of the squad until Jofra came in, however he also has obvious weaknesses. Yesterday was his best return, and tbh he had quite a bit of help from the irish top order, the batting was very tame, it's when the ball gets a little older he offers very little looking fairly innocuous or ordinary at best. The middle overs are always a tough time to take wickets if you haven't something different, Plunkett had it, that extra bit of zip or bounce and it's something the real pace of an Archer or Wood could offer too. I suppose in the end someone had to miss out and well though David had contributed he was the weakest bowler in the attack. Woakes is an infinitely better bowler than Willey and offers more with the bat, although he too has struggled with the bat recently and not got going at all.
On the openers i wouldn't be too concerned, we saw it in the tests from Burns and Pope that a long enforced break with absolutely no match cricket can leave you scratchy and it can take a few innings. These games are possibly amongst the least important this one day side have ever play and motivation after the pressure of the high stakes world cup or even the one dayers in South Africa must be a factor, surely they can't be nervous or have anything like the edge you need to perform at your best. Having said all that if I was the opposition I'd always open with plenty of spin bowling to both, at least initially, as they seem to have a clear vulnerability to it.
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Chris O'Connor
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I sort of compare these games to the one dayer they played up at The Grange in Edinburgh, a year or so before the world cup, they fielded a squad team with a few first teamers but not too many and were embarrassed by Scotland, it seemed an irrelevance at the time tbh and just look how important it actually turned out to be.
I would put these games in that category, a learning process about who may be in contention (Sam Billings, Mahmood) and who might not (Vince?). The results are an irrelevance really, at least to England that is - it would be great for Ireland.