I think heād have been highly pissed off at the gutless, mentally weak, attritional cricket that was played bty england today.
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Well. My last trip to Zakopane for a while, traffic was ok @BTripz updates were viewed in the 2 short queues.
I arrived early, my clients got delayed by the bike race so I actually streamed an hour of Woakes & Buttler about 70 to get when I hit road
Pit stop gave me chance to see score & 13 needed couldnāt talk clients into having a McDonaldās so had to wait to open the cricinfo update at traffic lights entering Krakow.
Get in! Needed explaining to my Maltese and led to a Saints chat.
Beer now, then a steak & some golf.
A chilly 31C here today need this beer
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What you on about, very happy, thereāll still be an inquest and this only papers over the cracks as such.
- The batting higher up needs to perform much better.
- Pakistan should have won and better teams wouldnāt have let that slip.
- We canāt rely on this as the way this came about is probably 1/100.
I think you need to check what the experts were and are saying, they mirror what Iām saying, its far from rosy.
I love Buttler but you canāt say that with real conviction as how often has that happened? And how often in the future will it?
I too love Butler, but if he had pouched that chance off Masood in the first innings the second innings heroics would not have been necessary.
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Have we been relegated yet?
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I was merely pointing out that Englandās successful run chase was not accompanied by any of your wrist-slitting feedback.
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No Stokes for rest of summer
Leaving for NZ for family reasons.
https://www.ecb.co.uk/england/men/news/1750548/official-statement-ben-stokes
Get Foakes in as keeper and leave Buttler as batsman.
Bet they wonāt though.
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Do even us fans have confidence in Buttler as a Test #5?
I donāt it will be Crawley.
We will be much weaker
Which experts, what are they saying, and can you provide any quotes or links? And I didnāt say everything is rosy, by the way.
But a good win is a good win, and that was a very good one indeed. All the more so given how unlikely it appeared.
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Because Iām on holiday as such down here and was driving and have been out all day.
It leaves the selectors with an incredibly complex problem. It would be ruthless - and, if weāre honest, highly unlikely - for Buttler to be left out after his contribution with the bat.
But England will know that, on another day, they will not get away with such errors behind the stumps.
It might be that, come the winter, when England are due to play Sri Lanka and India, the specialism of Ben Foakes is needed behind the stumps and Buttler has to earn his place through runs alone.
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2nd test v Pakistan today, at the āhome of Cricketā,
Archer and Stokes out, Curran and Crawley in.
Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat which surprises me given the weather conditions and how much the ball will move (or at least should move)
And Shan Masood goes for 1 run from 5 ballsā¦plumb LBW by Andersonā¦
6-1 (4 extras being the highest scorer)
40-1, Abid has now been dropped twice from what should have been regulation catches.
Abid 22* Azhar 10*
85-2 finally back in Poland after my summer vacation to a forest in Slovakia & some basic internet service