We keep dropping catches and that is costing us dear. Buttler is just not a good enough keeper in my opinion. Bairstow is also not a test standard keeper. Foulkes should have been the England test keeper for the last couple of years. He's an excellent keeper and a very solid batsman.
dorsetdano wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:59 am
We keep dropping catches and that is costing us dear. Buttler is just not a good enough keeper in my opinion. Bairstow is also not a test standard keeper. Foulkes should have been the England test keeper for the last couple of years. He's an excellent keeper and a very solid batsman.
Agree but Foulkes is injured.
They need to rebuild with him in at 7 though. Where the rest of the decent test standard batsmen come from though I don't know.
dorsetdano wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:59 am
We keep dropping catches and that is costing us dear. Buttler is just not a good enough keeper in my opinion. Bairstow is also not a test standard keeper. Foulkes should have been the England test keeper for the last couple of years. He's an excellent keeper and a very solid batsman.
Agree but Foulkes is injured.
They need to rebuild with him in at 7 though. Where the rest of the decent test standard batsmen come from though I don't know.
Another bloody disastrous day in Oz.
We just never seem to be able to compete out there,do we?
Maybe,our woke society has made our Sportsman less competitive? "It's all about taking part".
jameskel wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 1:54 pm
The 80's was as unwoke as you could get. We got fucking hammered then
we rely on 2 bowlers, who in Australia, just struggle. We rely on Root to get 500 each time we play and Stokes to be the new Flintoff.
We are fucking light years behind the Aussies, on quick wickets. 5 - 0
But we have a decent One Day and 20/20 Teams,who are up there with the very best.
The Aussies don't thrash everyone,apart from us..They have won 10 successive Test Matches against us on Aussie soil..Take out the 2011 series,we have won One Test Match this century.We have one series since 1986/87(35 YEARS).
TBF,they don't lose many series at home,but they always compete with us in England..Don't ever remember us white washing them in my lifetime(I'm 56),but they do it to us regularly.