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Cook has 83 runs in six innings! That’s embarrassing.
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Surely it won't rain all day? I can see Aussies having a session to bowl us out.
It seems the ECB is this dictatorship that cannot tolerate a view other than their own. Regardless of KP being right or wrong, the issue should have been dealt with by keeping him in the team. Til this day, he can tear apart any bowling attack, any where in the world.
The issue lies with the ECB. The bigger problem to English cricket. The fact that they can overlook their best player for the sake of team politics, says a lot about the people in charge.
Spot on.
To be honest once KP was dropped, i fell out of love with English cricket and stopped watching completely. This is the first English national team cricket I've watched in years and its pretty dire.
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There was an interesting article on the BBC about the difference between England's pace bowlers and the Australian pace bowlers. The average difference in speed is only 5mph (England bowel at an average of 84mph and Australia bowl at 89) but that extra bit of pace is crucial on flat pitches.
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I recognise that part of today's zeitgeist is to call for people's heads every time they fart or cough, but to call for Joe Root to be sacked / resign as captain now, 10 months since being named as captain and a whole 5 months since his first match as captain (in which he scored a century), after an albeit poor series but with a poor squad away to one of the best test sides in the world and arguably the best seam attack, is just taking the concept of entitled outraged millennial to a whole new level.
It's laughable. And that's why I'm laughing at you. Har har har!
Agreed. But, I'm sure he'd do a better job than Cook, who's averaging 13.83 runs in the series..... so far.
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Yawn.
Well if you were captain of the debating team I'd have called for your head in disgust by now. Luckily you're probably not captain of anything.
I just refuse to waste time on you mate.
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I actually thought Participant first post was quite funny. Enjoyed the vocabulary as well 
He's pretty old now and even though he may still be sound technically, i doubt he has the fitness to spend long periods of time batting in hot conditions. It's a shame, we could've used him for at least another year in International Cricket, perhaps more.
