Originally Posted by
Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Only Leach has a 50 as opener. Leach has a higher test average overall.
This match, JR's innings lasted 15 and 18 balls. In the 2nd innings today, Leach lasted 17 balls unbeaten for the greatest 1 n/o in test history.
Ok, if he'd been opening we wouldn't have had him to save the day at the end with his heroic 70-odd stand. But it seems the easiest way to get Jimmy back into the side.
Unless we bring in that Sibley chap (who probably hasn't played any red-ball cricket in months now the ECB only play non-slog in spring and autumn), there aren't really any other options.
I love Roy as a slogger, as I love Hales and Morgan.
But with the Ashes on the line he was almost perfect today. Stokes showed that you only need to score at 0.1-0.2 an over until you've worn the bowlers down and Leach can do that better than Roy.
All hail the Ciderabad hero.
And cleaning your glasses between deliveries is a damned sight more civilised than twitching like your trying to hide sandpaper down your bøllocks as that Convict cünt does.
I hope he gets a match-winning 4th innings five-fer and still knows it wasn't as much fun as a 50 partnership without scoring a run.
Hero.
{And if LA reads this, I still do swear on the whole Hindu Pantheon and my beloved that I really did read that article where Stokes said he'd told the management he wouldn't bat higher than 6.}
Maybe Denly can move up to 3 now he's scored a 50 that helped turn the match in a winning cause? {Especially if Leach can see the shine off more than Roy.}
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