Alex

Still don't get it

Which I guess Root would be aware of

Think he's considered a white ball specialist. He's never really done it in tests even after post-Yorkshire move when he found a yard or two of pace. I suppose it probably boils down to trust, could he bowl reasonably long spells? When he went to Yorkshire I think in 4 day matches he was used succesfully bowling short spells as quick as he could. Maybe he's not good enough to earn that luxury at test level the selectors think. Also, he hardly plays for Yorkshire any more in the longer format.

I sort of assumed it was but didn't (and still don't) get it

Same gadge wrote them both. The In the Miso Soup bloke wrote Audition which you might've seen the film of.

I was aware of Cuba like but I'm not having it about Chad being a baseball-playing nation

I enjoyed it, Diary of a Mad old Man is meant to be good too.

Don't think there's much room for too many changes. Ideally they'd have Finn, Wood and Stokes who can all bowl pretty quick but none of those are available. Roland-Jones ditto. Your pace attack is better suited to your conditions anyway but not having those four makes it pretty difficult to shuffle the pack too much. The other thing is that Broad doesn't really seem to swing it any more and angles it in a bit like Defrietas used to so even for the day-nighter at Adelaide I think your bowlers have the edge. I was reading it's a pretty quick wicket too.

I can't say I've read a lot but it definitely doesn't feature in Some Prefer Nettles. Then again, it definitely does in In the Miso Soup.

Was there? No idea tbh. Harry seems ok like.

They're usually on a sarrida anyway aren't they?

How come the entrants are all Earthlings?

Proves my point about them being good at conning morons though

The players said the same about the Duke with the pink lacquerring not lasting the same way as a normal ball. England won comfortably enough but at times they seemed to be trying too hard to exploit the conditions, once they just bowled properly they seemed to realise the ball would do enough. Hopefully, from our pov, the bowlers will have learned a little bit from that. It's pretty much a must win for us.

Whatever it is, it's chronic

Cracking

Something fishy about that post

It's a fucking mess and make no mistake.

Played one day-nighter against the Windies in the summer

Yes, but it also demonstrates the UK has zero leverage on the Irish border issue. What are we supposed to threaten them with like? If they don't hold trade talks first then we won't implement the Irish border plan that we don't have?

Well it worked for Trump

What are their terms regarding this issue beyond asking how we propose to handle the new arrangements at the border? I don't think it's a case of holding out in the hope of gaining more leverage, it's simply trying to make it look the EU is being unreasonable because there's no actual plan as to how to sort out border arrangements. It's frankly an absolute joke that all the pro-Brexit members of the government and UKIP etc. had no idea how to sort this issue and still don't. Just shows what a useless* bunch of chancers they are. * Unless you count conning morons

Because they think the UK should sort out the mess it has created?

Bilic seems to have made his career by doing ok with a pretty talented Croatia team