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Ben Stokes will miss the Oval Test against England due to a shoulder injury as the hosts make four changes for the match against India. Along with Stokes, Jofra Archer has also been rested for the match against India.

 

Stokes, Archer, Carse, Dawson out. 

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Great news, we managed to breakdown their pace attack with the bat-athon.

Stokes captaincy >>> Pope

Stokes batting >> Bethel (not proven in tests)

Stokes bowling >> Overton

Archer > Atkinson (coming back from injury)

 

Advantage India and wish Bumrah was playing.

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4 minutes ago, Scarface said:

Great news, we managed to breakdown their pace attack with the bat-athon.

Stokes captaincy >>> Pope

Stokes batting >> Bethel (not proven in tests)

Stokes bowling >> Overton

Archer > Atkinson (coming back from injury)

 

Advantage India and wish Bumrah was playing.

He can still play. But Gill stupidly used him for 33 overs on that road instead of using others equally.

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Atkinson averaging 41 this season in county , Overton seems pretty average anyway.  Woakes averaging 50 + this series and with a heacu workload.

 

Josh Tongue will be the biggest threat with his pace and angle 

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13 minutes ago, Scarface said:

Great news, we managed to breakdown their pace attack with the bat-athon.

Stokes captaincy >>> Pope

Stokes batting >> Bethel (not proven in tests)

Stokes bowling >> Overton

Archer > Atkinson (coming back from injury)

 

Advantage India and wish Bumrah was playing.

Archer isn't better than gus atkinson 

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29 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Atkinson averaging 41 this season in county , Overton seems pretty average anyway.  Woakes averaging 50 + this series and with a heacu workload.

 

Josh Tongue will be the biggest threat with his pace and angle 

 

Never understand why they left out Tongue. May be he is not that good a batsman. They prefer bowlers who can bat a bit. All these guys can do.

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5 minutes ago, deathmonger said:

Only four bowlers without a spinner? 

 

Bethel can bowl as well as Dawson. Root can bowl a few. All point to some green track given that Bumrah is not playing.

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11 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

Bethel can bowl as well as Dawson. Root can bowl a few. All point to some green track given that Bumrah is not playing.

Dawson has ben dropped

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1 minute ago, LordPrabhzy said:

Dawson has ben dropped

Justifiably. Bethell can do the same job. Now they have 4 pronged pace attack which should be more than enough if there is help

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6 minutes ago, putrevus said:

They have dropped their only spinner and India is planning to play 3 spinners??

 

Well 2 of those spinners are as good as any of our proper test batsmen. Hell Jadeja is batting like Sobers this series. 

 

Surely we can consider playing Kuldeep instead of a 4th pacer who's bad anyways. 

 

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10 minutes ago, AuxiliA said:

 

Well 2 of those spinners are as good as any of our proper test batsmen. Hell Jadeja is batting like Sobers this series. 

 

Surely we can consider playing Kuldeep instead of a 4th pacer who's bad anyways. 

 

You cannot do that if deck is seaming deck.Oval always has extra bounce.It is not like India has three front line fast bowlers.They need to have cushion too.

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12 minutes ago, G_B_ said:

Will be a seaming deck

 

India need an extra batter imo

 

Arshdeep will be useful with the new ball.

Gambhir will add extra bowlers then

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