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England Test squad announced - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/57156635

I'm pleased to see James Bracey in there. I mentioned him in the previous cricket thread and (thanks to the free streams on YouTube) I've seen a fair bit of him this county season. I guess it remains to be seen if there are any flaws which will be found out by world-class bowlers, but to my very amateur eyes, he looks well organised and composed at the crease. 

It looks like there will be some rotation in the bowling ranks - it will be nice to see Olly Stone again, I thought he looked decent against India. 

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2 hours ago, robf said:

England Test squad announced - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/57156635

I'm pleased to see James Bracey in there. I mentioned him in the previous cricket thread and (thanks to the free streams on YouTube) I've seen a fair bit of him this county season. I guess it remains to be seen if there are any flaws which will be found out by world-class bowlers, but to my very amateur eyes, he looks well organised and composed at the crease. 

It looks like there will be some rotation in the bowling ranks - it will be nice to see Olly Stone again, I thought he looked decent against India. 

The Cricket on YouTube is brilliant. Actually getting Sport free.

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Just away from the football, that's a magnificent coiffure effort by current NZ batsman Colin de Grandhomme.

I hope some of the Vale players take note for their new season haircuts...👩‍🦱

 

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24 minutes ago, robf said:

Just away from the football, that's a magnificent coiffure effort by current NZ batsman Colin de Grandhomme.

I hope some of the Vale players take note for their new season haircuts...👩‍🦱

 

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Best mullett I've seen in a long time. Didn't do his batting much good this morning though!

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Great to see some Test Match cricket at last--one of the later International starts to a new cricket season, but nevertheless very welcome.  Let's hope the sun keeps shining for the next few weeks! N. Zealand will be a tough test and the 2 game mini-series is a good warm-up to the main event against India later in the summer.  Although I guess New Zealand may well contest that comment as they're only warming up against England to give them match practice before the world Test final against India!

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19 minutes ago, manc_vale said:

Love playing NZ. Tests usually played in the right spirit and can be a pretty close series.

They also bring my favourite test summariser, Jeremy Coney along to TMS.

Yep, he's great to listen to.

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36 minutes ago, Phil1965 said:

How good must it feel to score 200 on test debut at Lords!

It must be hard to top that.. And he can also say it was against Anderson and Broad who together have amassed over 1,000 test wickets.

Who was the last England batsman to score 200 at Lords?

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Looks a very good player Conway. Apparently he’s been knocking on the door scoring a heap of runs for years. 
 

NZ are a long way ahead of us in test cricket, I know we have our middle order missing for this one and a couple of others but our batting line up is pretty poor for international standard. I’ve cut sibley a lot of slack (even on here) but I think his time is up. He seems to be getting progressively worse. 20 tests now and averaging under 30 just isn’t good enough. Players before him have had better averages in fewer games and been dropped. Time to bring hameed back into the side. 

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On 03/06/2021 at 13:53, manc_vale said:

Love playing NZ. Tests usually played in the right spirit and can be a pretty close series.

They also bring my favourite test summariser, Jeremy Coney along to TMS.

Spot on with both those comments--here's to some cricket today and tomorrow or we could be heading for what has become a rarity these days..........a drawn Test Match!

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On 03/06/2021 at 13:53, manc_vale said:

Love playing NZ. Tests usually played in the right spirit and can be a pretty close series.

They also bring my favourite test summariser, Jeremy Coney along to TMS.

Personally think we should be playing 5 match series against NZ they’re a quality side and like you I love it when we play them. Great side 

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8 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

Personally think we should be playing 5 match series against NZ they’re a quality side and like you I love it when we play them. Great side 

They always seem to be criminally underrated. They only lost the WC final due to luck, really, they could be World Test champions and for a smallish population they have some fantastic players. 

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43 minutes ago, robf said:

They always seem to be criminally underrated. They only lost the WC final due to luck, really, they could be World Test champions and for a smallish population they have some fantastic players. 

Spot on. They’re very strong in each format as well, think they are at their peak currently as their an experienced side, probably where we were a few years ago. Still wouldn’t be surprised if they beat us here even with that day rained off 

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