O/T:- The Ashes 2023

[Notts78]

We’ll never know if we genuinely have no spin options if we keep bringing them out of retirement.

And Jimmy’s injury was real, don’t quite understand how you might think otherwise?!? He couldn’t play before the first test?! He wasn’t rested. In his own words :

"It [groin injury] is good. It is not too serious. I have been back bowling and running and confident I will be fit and firing soon," Anderson told the Telegraph.”

But if you feel they all made it up…..

You’ve never seen me bowl so how do you know I wouldn’t take wickets on that pitch

Joking aside, I agree entirely on Jimmys view of the pitch. You would have thought England might have known that when they picked the side though…..but still picked him. So much for home advantage.

Now, please answer the question on Ali, and tell me who you would have played or would play in the next test, there’s a good fellow.

I’d go the same side. Unless of course there is pace in the wicket in which case Mark Wood enters calculations.
Despite the aggressive nature of the side I can’t see Ahmed starting in place of Ali, unless injured.
Jimmy has an unbelievable record at Lords, 117 wickets.
Broad was the best bowler for England in the first test and Robbo has stirred the hornets nest but has backed it up with wickets.
As Stokes can’t and won’t bowl enough overs a batter has to be at risk if Wood is to start, though
my gut is Broad or Robbo will be ‘rested’ if Wood comes in.
As for your bowling, I’m not sure I’d struggle against it 😏

[PedroTheFisherman66]

women's cricket !? same as the women's footy its for the park not main stream TV. That is all.