A genuine sense now that Root's captaincy has been persisted with

only because of a lack of viable alternatives.

Stokes would be overloaded and after that it's probably Burns or Buttler - which is pretty embarrassing.

Posted By: norway on November 25th 2019 at 08:38:07

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Just pathetic from England. Shit. (n/m) (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Nov 25, 07:15:46
- It’s only a test match in New Zealand (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Nov 25, 09:53:52
  - nice little training sesh in the sun for our lads, bit of a beano i'd imagine (Other Sports) - Tombs, Nov 25, 09:57:03
- It's pretty poor (Other Sports) - Cardiff Canary, Nov 25, 09:14:46
- I know a lot of the debate is around the 1st innings batting collapse etc (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Nov 25, 08:58:03
  - We don't bowl an aggressive enough line when the wicket is flat(ish) (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Nov 25, 09:11:15
    - I agree entirely. The constant Archer short stuff has to stop too. It no (Other Sports) - Jim, Nov 25, 09:13:56
- A genuine sense now that Root's captaincy has been persisted with (Other Sports) - norway, Nov 25, 08:38:07
  - Yes,they need real leadership on the field,it's all abit too nice imo.plus they (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Nov 25, 09:55:26
    - The one thing I'll cling on to is the churn and relative inexperience of that XI (Other Sports) - norway, Nov 25, 10:07:56
  - Stokes doesn;t strike me as a captain to be honest. Yes he's capable of heroics and (Other Sports) - Jim, Nov 25, 09:11:39
    - Catches win matches. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Nov 25, 09:23:27
- Can't bat, our bowling's poor and dreadful fielding. Other than that we're pretty good. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Nov 25, 08:31:23
  - At least we can watch some live cricket more easily next month Dubbers. (Other Sports) - shoddy, Nov 25, 09:17:41
    - I can see us getting trounced if we don't learn how to play Test Cricket again! (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Nov 25, 09:20:05
      - Yep its gonna be messy (n/m) (Other Sports) - shoddy, Nov 25, 09:54:39
- Dreadful (Other Sports) - paulg, Nov 25, 08:10:45
- Yep there just not able to bat for any time (Other Sports) - eddie, Nov 25, 07:46:18
  - Our batsmen simply aren’t good enough (n/m) (Other Sports) - SimonOTBC, Nov 25, 08:14:58
    - Theres one or two that can help us get out of a hole (Other Sports) - eddie, Nov 25, 08:55:15
      - Yes althoigh he should have been out for 38 and by that I don't mean it was a half chance (Other Sports) - Jim, Nov 25, 09:18:24
      - Worst test team since c2000 or so maybe earlier? (n/m) (Other Sports) - SimonOTBC, Nov 25, 09:13:12

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