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I can understand a calf injury worsening through running but struggling to understand how you would make a hand injury significantly worse by bowling ?
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that excuse sounds like a cover story for Root's inept captaincy
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was there on sunday and we were utterly baffled at what was going on. not only woakes not bowling before lunch but root himself came on after just 5 overs of the new ball
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Warwickshire's England fast bowler Olly Stone has aggravated his previous back injury, which will rule him out of contention for the second Ashes Test.
Following an injury to James Anderson at Edgbaston, Stone was one of the candidates to replace him at Lord's. But Stone has been ruled out of action for the next two weeks because of the injury to his left lower back sustained in training at Edgbaston on Tuesday. "It's really disappointing for Olly," said sport director Paul Farbrace. "To be ruled out of action for such an important two weeks of cricket because of a reoccurrence of his back injury. "At the moment there's a bit of inflammation, but he will undergo a scan later this afternoon so that we know the full course of treatment that he can undertake with the club's medical team and with the support of the ECB. "In the meantime, he needs to rest up before he can get his body strong again and ready to deal with the demands of being a fast bowler." |
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Dizzy: '"I was surprised he didn't play the first Test, to be perfectly blunt," Gillespie told TalkSPORT radio. "It's easy to say that in hindsight, but he's 100 percent fit, ready to go.
"He had to start the first Test, but the powers that be decided he wasn't quite ready. They thought he'd not played enough red-ball cricket … but the same people were saying he hadn't played enough 50-over cricket and he's gone and been the leading [England] wicket-taker in the World Cup. So he WAS fit?! |
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know bowling and fielding are not the same thing but if he wasn't considered fit enough to play surely there were better alternatives as a sub fielder than archer. another odd decision
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of course he was fit more smoke and mirrors to cover up the completely farcical decision for him not to play
it's one thing pissing off Willey by replacing him in the one day squad but a whole different ball game where Anderson and Broad are concerned.......it seems we had to lose the first test to placate those two egos |
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of course he was fit, fully agree with sewter post,
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Moeen Ali
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gone
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just the expected changes. suppose only question is whether they consider dropping denly for curran
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Australia blow as captain Steve Smith suffers shoulder injury.
"He has had an MRI scan which has excluded serious injury, but we believe the best course of action is for him to not continue to aggravate his shoulder and allow it to recover," said Australia's team doctor Richard Saw. |
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I don't think that will affect the aus price.
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Why not bring in Steve Finn.
A Middlesex bowler in form at Lords. Has he retired from test/red ball cricket? One of the problems with test contacts is the lack of flexibility. It IS tough for players to perform at a high level over long periods so why not spread it around a bit more? |
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England playing catch up again. Archer and Leach to play. Pity Foakes isn't in for Denly or Roy but but maybe we have to wait till Headingly for that.
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yeah come and have a game when the series is over. thanks very much
foakes must feel very pished off. 100 on debut man of the series then dropped almost immediately. could make a claim to being a better red ball bat than anyone but root in the side. would never ever happen to an established player |
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Adil Rashid, England's World Cup-winning legspinner, has been ruled out for the rest of the season as his shoulder injury continues to plague him.
Rashid's shoulder injury was first made public when England's World Cup squad was announced, and was cited as a reason for the inclusion of Liam Dawson over Joe Denly. It was not sufficiently serious that it caused him to miss any World Cup games, but Rashid revealed that he had needed an injection to manage the pain, and said that bowling his variations in particular had hurt. He declared himself "100% fit" after the group stages, but after a brief period of rest, told Yorkshire's medical staff that the injury was "the worst it has been this summer", and withdrew from their Vitality Blast squads. Rashid will undergo a period of rehabilitation, and hopes to bit fully fit in time for England's T20I series in New Zealand in November. |
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I have backed draw @ 6.2 I suspect weather trade here, I might be wrong
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Foakes should have been in the squad-at the very least to signal to Bairstow what would happen if he fails again
all we need now is for Bairstow to drop Smith... |
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draw just wrrecked me
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Yep Wednesday might be a better time to lay the draw!
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It's a coin-flip (literally) as to whether you have a long-batting side in first or a collapse-prone side, so why lay the draw before the toss, except if you'd already backed from longer odds.
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I'll tell you why!
people said " smile , things could get worse " So I did! Noah may turn up in a boat! |
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draw now odds on , still 16/1 with 365 for aus to be leading 1 0 after 3 test, must be great value
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