Ollie Pope

[tweaker]

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It may also be that Pope takes Dawid Malan’s place at No4, which would be an extraordinary induction. No England batsman has made his Test debut at that position in almost 20 years, since Michael Vaughan took on South Africa in 1999, the famous Wanderers Test in which England were 2 for 4 before Vaughan launched a dogged rearguard that portended the golden career to come.

Edited August 8, 2018 by tweaker

[tweaker]

 

Ollie Pope is England’s latest Test debutant to benefit from a daring – or desperate – faith in youth

 

 

If Pope does make his debut for the second Test, he will become the fourth player aged 20 or younger to have been picked by England this year.

 

In the space of eight months, England will have called up more under-21s than in the entire 16 years of Duncan Fletcher, Peter Moores, Andy Flower and Peter Moores again.

 

Boldness or desperation? It’s probably a bit of both. Either way, Pope’s elevation – following in the footsteps of Mason Crane, Dom Bess and his Surrey team-mate Sam Curran – represents a sustained punt on youth the likes of which English cricket has not seen in its history.

 

And throwing a 20-year-old middle-order batsmen into a Lord’s Test against the world’s No1 team certainly counts as that.

[mishra]

Good luck to Lad. I am looking forward to see his batting. Someone as young as 20 with so little experience and first class run under his belt must be naturally very talented to make it to English squad

[Straight Drive]

Didn't play lot of LVCC last year (2 or 3 iirc) but has been sensational this year. International format will be different though but he does has the baggage of form with him. 

[Clarke]

kya zamana aa gaya hai

 

Jolly ol' England tries out a 20 yr old against #1 ranked team in tests. 

 

India, where teenagers used to debut regularly, is considering promoting the 37 year old uknowwho for ODI &T20 world cups 

[chewy]

Not just youngsters but seems like England pushing gingers through too..Stokes, Eoin Morgan, Barstow and now this dude

[sandeep]

I'm excited to see this kid play.  Always good to see young ones being given opportunities.

 

ECB's selection policies have gotten a lot of things right since the recent shake-up.  

 

 

[GautiMaan]

If our management was in charge of England Ian Bell wouldve made a comeback and this kid would be playing for some Shire. 

[tweaker]

Ollie off to good start

25*  runs of 34 balls