Butterfingers Bairstow brought in for batting.
Maybe time to get somebody in who can reliably do at least one of the jobs he's tasked with.
He's not doing the job we need him to, he has to go.Problem is I say this and then I'm told his record is good
37 with ball and 28 with bat says otherwise. He has the abilities but never seemed to reach the heights he could. To be fair Cook and Root were ordinary captains and never understood the Ali was an attacking bowler, and juggling him up and down the batting order meant he never developed.Ali is capable of batting more than 'a bit'. Genuine all rounder.
I don't get why people are dissing our players so badly when
Steve Smith scored 22
Warner got 4
Khawaja got 13
and Labuschagne got 21
This is clearly a pitch where good bowling will get wickets. If we were playing the Leeds schoolboy 11 I would agree but we are playing against some of the best bowlers in the world.
If England had of held all the catches Aus would have been out for 120.
Boycott always says don't judge until both teams have had a bat.
IF (and granted its a very large one) Stokes can put in an 80+ then the scores after the first innings from both will be somewhat close and we will be down really to a single innings match.
Unless something changes this doesn't look like a 300+ wicket with these teams playing.
All fair points but.
We've repeatedly made the same mistakes in every match. Dropping catches, Bairstow letting balls go etc.
He went.
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