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Originally Posted by Mike  I said before the series that England should strengthen their batting. |
How so? Englands No's 1-5 have been around for ages and they're good enough and International standard, where it goes pear shaped is with Bopara at 6, he isn't good enough yet for Test Cricket. It's not even as if Flintoff was scoring lots of runs at No6 before his injury - it's his bowling that's missed, not his batting.
England as I've said before, should play Collingwood as the allrounder and bring in either a another specialist bowler (my preference) or another specialist batsman, probably Shah in place of Bopara. But I don't see how strengthening the batting will help stop Sri Lanka posting 500+ scores.
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Originally Posted by Mike Panesar must be doing something wrong to be averaging 50 per wicket. |
Yeah, he's bowling to short and being used too negatively.