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Seeing Pickford in goal never fills me with confidence. Cannot see the logic of playing Trippier at left-back when you've got specialists there - particularly in a tournament.

Batting rightly getting panned from all sides. They've had this before when the likes of Bairstow and Buttler finally had to learn to build first. When people were screaming to get a "stodgy" number 3 in to balance all the shot makers. And for far too long it's too often been the likes of...

Lad called Archie Lenham playing for Sussex (who just played another 16 year old in their 4 day team during half-term!!).

Dire day watching a pathetic Test performance - then decide to watch the T20 and perk up at watching a really talented 16 year old English leg spinner.

couldn't agree more but that's apparently why they were there.

Clarke's form dipped after all that Worcs business with Hepburn & the court cases. Other big problem could be starting to see the impact of white ball cricket (T20 in particular) on the cricket youngsters are mainly playing atm. Counties handing out separate white ball and red ball contracts...

Comes back to this overwhelming desire of the management to have attacking batsmen who can score quickly. Need to remind these players they can get in first before upping their scoring rates. The better Test teams are just keeping it tight and letting some of these England players get themselves...

Part of the problem is that he hadn't scored a pile of county runs before he got into the side. 2 years of county cricket averaging under 35. But one of those players that they'd identified as a Test player early on and so that was it. How they identify players that way before they've done much...

Time to rethink Crawley.That one big innings massively padding his stats and the number of caught behinds or in the slips means teams have worked him out.

Or if he could have kept away from women and booze. Was never fully focused but was an excellent boxer. Colourful character and life needs those

Woakes still under-rated with bat and ball. Was a big miss for Lords test considering his record there.

Not the biggest T20 fan but that was an enjoyable game. Worcs looked dead and buried early on

They don't do irony :) It's just insane. Really in what sort of world is a left back worth 500k a week? Very good player but he's a left back.

If ESL is resurrected at the money that was talked about then 25m fines and 30 or deductions aren't much of a deterrent.

They don't even see the irony. Claim football is broken yet fail to see their role in breaking it. Huge transfer spending, ridiculous wages without the guaranteed income to cover it - 2 Spanish clubs still have wage bills well over 200 million with the imposed COVID reductions.

Barca, Real & JUventus hanging on in there - having found a friendly court in Madrid :) Surprised we've heard nothing more substantial on these huge sums the PL 6 were potentially liable for when they quit ESL

T20 starts today. Still can't bring myself to support a team called the "Birmingham" Bears.

It's hard when they personalize it by saying how Archer might have reacted. Could have been offended, could have thought some of the "sexist" stuff was amusing, could have thought it was a storm in a teacup. What offends one person may not offend another. Not fair to shift it onto Archer and...

Need to consider some sort of amnesty for the poor judgement jokes etc. or else this will keep on going. Obviously not for more serious statements, points of view etc. Cricketers have agents. Why aren't they making sure they clean up their social media histories? Talk of Overton replacing...

Good. Thought I was the only one who doesn't get those. If they ever start mining footballers and rugby players Twitter accounts etc retrospectively probably wouldn't be able to field an international team