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JimmyJeffers said:
Stokes hasn’t looked that fluent batting for a while now I think. Always looks like he’s trying too hard. Wouldn’t be surprised to see him retire fairly soon.
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Yeah, trying too hard. That 100 at OT in the summer, he finally let the game come to him again - think he was 20 off 50 balls at one point. Thats what he's best at, even when England are trying to ramp up the speed of play

Its why I think he could open. Just needle his way in and then when he's set, he play his way
 
This is the folly of condensing the Ashes into a 6 week period because August has been reserved for that 'Hundred' dirge. Our greatest bowler admitting it's not possible for him to play in all five Tests. Perhaps if we'd got an old style home Ashes series, with the first Test starting in early to mid June and the final one finishing on the Bank Holiday Monday in late August with the Tests spaced out, perhaps Jimmy and Stuart Broad could've participated in every Test match.

Jimmy is certainly going to want to play in the opening Test, and at Lords and Old Trafford, but the final Test at the Oval is scheduled to start just 3 days after the Manchester Test is finished so is it realistic for a nearly 41 year old to play back-to-back Test matches? What if the 5th Test is a winner-takes-all decider?

We're just hampering our own chances of winning back the Ashes. And the 'Hundred' is to blame.


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'Five Tests is unrealistic' - Anderson fitness for Ashes

England's record wicket-taker James Anderson says it is "unrealistic" for him to play all five Test matches against Australia in the 2023 Ashes.
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My favourite cricket memory was when I went to go watch the Aussies when I was a lad. I’m talking about the era when Ricky Ponting was their captain.

It was the first session of the first innings on the first day of a test match. It was a Thursday morning, so the ground was quite empty. You could literally hear a cricket fart! The Aussies were fielding first and Ricky was fielding near the boundary where I was sitting.

So I shouted out: ‘Hey Dckhead… I mean Dicky… I mean Ricky!’

He turned around with this aggravated look on his face, only to realise that I was just a wee lad. So he gave me a cheeky smile and thumbs up. 😂
 
StreetEndBlue said:
This is the folly of condensing the Ashes into a 6 week period because August has been reserved for that 'Hundred' dirge. Our greatest bowler admitting it's not possible for him to play in all five Tests. Perhaps if we'd got an old style home Ashes series, with the first Test starting in early to mid June and the final one finishing on the Bank Holiday Monday in late August with the Tests spaced out, perhaps Jimmy and Stuart Broad could've participated in every Test match.

Jimmy is certainly going to want to play in the opening Test, and at Lords and Old Trafford, but the final Test at the Oval is scheduled to start just 3 days after the Manchester Test is finished so is it realistic for a nearly 41 year old to play back-to-back Test matches? What if the 5th Test is a winner-takes-all decider?

We're just hampering our own chances of winning back the Ashes. And the 'Hundred' is to blame.


www.bbc.co.uk

'Five Tests is unrealistic' - Anderson fitness for Ashes

England's record wicket-taker James Anderson says it is "unrealistic" for him to play all five Test matches against Australia in the 2023 Ashes.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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The hundred is a dumb gimmick and will be binned shortly.
 

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