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    The Ashes

    Archer out for the summer

    and no Ben Foakes in the squad, by a distance the best wicketkeeper. Joke

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    Still the most interesting thing I ever saw about the cricket.
    Feck Cultural Marxist BLM

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    Quote Originally Posted by PSRB View Post
    Archer out for the summer

    and no Ben Foakes in the squad, by a distance the best wicketkeeper. Joke
    Archer out is a bugger but the Foakes thing makes sense for Ireland - let all seven batsman have a shoot out and can pick from there. I quite the idea of Stokes opening. Probably has a better technique than most. Foakes opening would be an option for me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    Archer out is a bugger but the Foakes thing makes sense for Ireland - let all seven batsman have a shoot out and can pick from there. I quite the idea of Stokes opening. Probably has a better technique than most. Foakes opening would be an option for me
    I like the sound of that. My idea was to put Root as opener. Like his first Ashes series when he scored 180 or something. Brook, Bairstow, Stokes and Foakes at 4-7. But Brook before he got his place, he's talked to YCCC about opening as he thought it was his best chance of breaking into the Eng team.

    He says his fave shot is a forward defensive that dribbles to point.

    But if Foakes opens you have the Alec Stewart problem - 'keeping all day and then having to open the batting straight away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
    I like the sound of that. My idea was to put Root as opener. Like his first Ashes series when he scored 180 or something. Brook, Bairstow, Stokes and Foakes at 4-7. But Brook before he got his place, he's talked to YCCC about opening as he thought it was his best chance of breaking into the Eng team.

    He says his fave shot is a forward defensive that dribbles to point.

    But if Foakes opens you have the Alec Stewart problem - 'keeping all day and then having to open the batting straight away.
    Indeed - though if it is particularly long you can always throw the gloves to Jonny (thinking outside the box )

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    Quote Originally Posted by PSRB View Post
    Archer out for the summer

    and no Ben Foakes in the squad, by a distance the best wicketkeeper. Joke
    Does it matter?

    Given that it seems to rain endlessly in this godforsaken country when in f*cks name are they ever going to be able to play it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
    Does it matter?

    Given that it seems to rain endlessly in this godforsaken country when in f*cks name are they ever going to be able to play it?
    Bazball only needs half the time, w. I'll be back for the rugby in a week or so so the sun will be out then. If its any consolation I was in Croatia last week and it pissed down for two day and then came back to Munich where it has rained relentlessly for weeks as well

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    Bazball only needs half the time, w. I'll be back for the rugby in a week or so so the sun will be out then. If its any consolation I was in Croatia last week and it pissed down for two day and then came back to Munich where it has rained relentlessly for weeks as well
    That's fair, seems to be a European thingy.

    I'm in Paris twice a month and it's been pissing on me there as well.

    Sunny in Villamoura, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
    That's fair, seems to be a European thingy.

    I'm in Paris twice a month and it's been pissing on me there as well.

    Sunny in Villamoura, though.
    Milan was moist as well

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    Quote Originally Posted by PSRB View Post
    Milan was moist as well
    For those of us who don't keep up with these things but really enjoy the Ashes - is there strong or weak favourite either way?

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