The Ashes 2021/22

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Saqib Mahmood put on standby for an Ashes call up after taking 4 wickets on his Big Bash debut.

I would have picked him for the squad in the first place but I would have thought there are enough right arm fast-medium bowlers in the squad already, and he certainly won't strengthen the batting. Didn't manage a wicket in the recent waste of time, one-off England Lions game against Australia A.
Pity Livingstone is back in the UK, he couldn't do any worse than some of them.
 

Pity Livingstone is back in the UK, he couldn't do any worse than some of them.
That's true, although given his red ball form last season there was no way they could pick him. Unlike some who are seen as white ball specialists he has always expressed his desire to play test cricket so I still think he could make it. A couple of big innings early next season would do it I think.
 
Saqib Mahmood put on standby for an Ashes call up after taking 4 wickets on his Big Bash debut.

I would have picked him for the squad in the first place but I would have thought there are enough right arm fast-medium bowlers in the squad already, and he certainly won't strengthen the batting. Didn't manage a wicket in the recent waste of time, one-off England Lions game against Australia A.
His wickets, not exactly pitching on leg and hitting off, but I suppose wickets are wickets.

 
Root says they should have bowled much fuller

But didn't he use Stokes to bowl short with 2 men on the hook for a lot of day 1? You can't really say the bowlers need to bowl fuller and set a leg side field for the top edge.
You’d hope he’d have mentioned this to them after each of them had bowled an over or two, and done something about it at the time! Pure deflection tactics on his behalf, the bowlers really aren’t the problem. In fact he’s often relying on the bowlers as batters to get some runs at the end of an innings, as the top order have been something less than average (with the exception of Root himself) for far too long!
 

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Root says they should have bowled much fuller

But didn't he use Stokes to bowl short with 2 men on the hook for a lot of day 1? You can't really say the bowlers need to bowl fuller and set a leg side field for the top edge.
Ponting agrees.

 

At least lunch with no wickets down needed here. Only see it going one way if early wickets go


'mon England
right with you there Thomas, we need these two to set themselves for an old fashioned test match innings,

Great to hear David Gower back in the comms box, call me old fashioned but I like test cricket commentators to sound like they're having an afternoon ion a Gentleman's Club and we are sneakily intruding on their conversations.
 

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