England's Cricketing Summer 2017

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No surprise in that Joe Root has been confirmed as the new captain of England. Ben Stokes is vice captain. Mike Atherton's thoughts.

http://www.skysports.com/cricket/ne...glands-new-test-captain-michael-atherton-says

Joe Root ready to be England's new Test captain, Michael Atherton says


Joe Root is a "singular, driven individual" who will tackle the challenges of being England Test captain head on, says Mike Atherton.

Root, 26, has been confirmed as the successor of Alastair Cook, who resigned last week after a record 59-match tenure.

The coronation was widely-anticipated once Cook took the decision to stand down and former skipper Atherton says that Root is starting from a strong position, despite his lack of captaincy experience.

Colin Graves said he's the perfect choice. He's certainly the right choice but the perfect choice? Well, let's see how it pans out.

"There is always a sense of uncertainty, unknowing - especially so I think with Root, because he's pretty inexperienced when it comes to leadership and captaincy.

"Although a lot of his predecessors didn't captain in county cricket formally, they would have captained the Lions and on England A tours - that kind of thing.

"Root has had just four first-class games (as captain) and the odd session when Cook has left the field.

"So there is a sense of uncertainty but what we do know is that he's a singular, driven individual; he's one of the best players in the world.

"He's highly respected in the dressing room. They like him and respect him; he's got a sunny, upbeat personality. Those are all good places from which to start.

"But he's going to be tested in ways that he hasn't been tested before; he's no longer just Joe Root - he's Joe Root the England captain and with that comes all kinds of extra responsibilities that he's not had so far.

"But he's a good choice, he's the right choice; I think it's a good combination with Ben Stokes as his official vice-captain and these are exciting times for English cricket. We wish him well."

A very busy schedule this year :

For some reason, three ODI's in the W.Indies in March.
Two ODI's against Ireland in May, no doubt rained off. Also, two against South Africa.

The Champions Trophy begins in June. In England's group are Bangladesh, Australia and New Zealand. The other group India, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
Semi Finals - 14/15 June. Final 18 June.

Then, two T20 matches against S.Africa followed by four Tests.
And there's more. Three Tests against the W. Indies then a T20 match and five ODI' s finishing the International season on 29 September.

The Ashes start on the 23 November. Seems a ridiculous schedule to me. Plenty of 'squad rotation' methinks.
 

...yep, no surprise but it will be interesting how the 'Root England' evolves. An interesting summer, I presume Hameed will open with Cooke and Root could drop down a place.
 
England win their warm up game ahead of three ODI's against the W. Indies..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/...e-feast-opening-game-ofwest-indies-series-st/

England go from famine to feast in opening game of West Indies series

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Jason Roy hit 79 off 43 balls in St Kitts on Saturday Credit:Getty Images
It was no mere buffet to which England were invited to help themselves when they were put in to bat by the University of West Indies Vice-Chancellor’s XI in their first warm-up match, ahead of the three one-day internationals against West Indies. It was one slap-up, all-you-can-eat spread as England totalled 379 for eight off 50 overs, before going on to win by 117 runs.

Jason Roy helped himself to 79 off 43 balls, in spite of a slightly bruised right hand, while Joe Root – in his first innings as England’s Test captain, though not in this format – indulged more sedately in 71 off 76 balls. Eoin Morgan, wishing to launch England’s build-up to the Champions Trophy in style, almost went the whole hog with 95 off 84 balls.

It was not quite men against boys, but men against students, along with a few other lads, and captained by Chadwick Walton, a 31-year-old Jamaican, their only senior batsman. He scored a fine 121 off 109 balls and almost half of his side’s runs in a face-saving exercise on a breezy tropical afternoon.

Being young and impulsive, the Vice-Chancellor’s XI bowled as quickly as they could at Roy, instead of opening with a spinner – and left-arm spin is the dish he likes least. The one decent bowler the hosts had was Khary Pierre, a tall left-armer who has played a couple of times for Trinidad, and he dismissed Roy almost as soon as he came on, Roy stabbing a return catch.

By then, however, Roy had trashed all the pace that was going, starting with the first two balls that were long-hops. He was the first to harness the wind that blew down Warner Park towards the harbour by latching on to a slower ball and driving it over long-off. A fusillade of sixes followed, of a velocity probably not seen since the British took St Kitts from the French.

Roy hit the pace bowlers so devastatingly that England posted 86 off the first 10 overs, which Root and Morgan inflated into 239 for two off 30.

For a moment England looked as though they could be the first side to reach 500 in a List A game, or at any rate the second to pass 450, but the pitch was powdering in the heat and the ball turned, at times lavishly.

The local lads had great forenames, just like their predecessors of a more eminent age, like Chadwick and Cassius, Shimron and Obed, but the discipline of old was not quite there, either in the bowling or fielding.


Ben Stokes was dropped three times, the trend set when Root was dropped on 64 by extra-cover – who was none other than the 20 year-old son of Shivnarine Chanderpaul. But when the University of West Indies made a presentation at the lunch break, in the absence of West Indies’ most distinguished recent servant, Tagenarine Chanderpaul held on.

Root, being so drilled in the orthodoxies, does not really do hitting – he was dismissed dragging to midwicket – but Morgan does. Of England’s 18 sixes, Morgan pummelled six of them, mostly over long-on, in one of the more uninhibited pieces of buccaneering in the Caribbean since his namesake plundered Jamaica.
 
Forgot England were playing.
Three ODI's in the West Indies. England made 296. Morgan 107 off 112 balls, dropped on 4. Stokes 55, Billings 52.
In reply W. Indies 161-4, 34.1 overs, Woakes 2, Plunkett and Rashid.
 

Second ODI : W. Indies bowled out for 225 in 47.5 overs. Plunkett 3 wickets. England 1-1, 0.2 overs, Billings out.
 

i don't think the players should be allowed back if they lose a game to this west indies team. They don't have any good players whatsoever
 

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