talkFORUM

Early squad news for the test series in NZ later this year.

Buttler to keep wicket (Foakes also being considered as an option)
Bairstow not ruled out but will only get a place as a batsman if selected.
Anderson, Wood & Stone to miss out due to injury - Saqib Mahmood may be selected
Pope will be in squad alongside one or both out of Sibley & Crawley

Welcome to the post Bayliss era.

Does this never end?

You just had a World Cup, ''The Ashes'' and WTF is this pish? 2 months of them playing in NZ?

Does the series start in November?

kancutlawns wrote:Does the series start in November?

November:

1 1st Twenty20 international, Christchurch (01:00 GMT)

3 2nd Twenty20 international, Wellington (Westpac Stadium) (01:00 GMT)

5 3rd Twenty20 international, Nelson (01:00 GMT)

8 4th Twenty20 international, Napier (d/n) (05:00 GMT)

10 5th Twenty20 international, Auckland (01:00 GMT)

21-25 1st Test, Mount Maunganui (22:00 GMT, 20-26 Nov)

29-3 Dec 2nd Test, Hamilton (22:00 GMT, 28 Nov-2 Dec)

Yeah, more predictable limited overs shite.

kancutlawns wrote:Yeah, more predictable limited overs shite.

Would love to watch cricket in Napier and see all the art deco architecture.

kancutlawns wrote:Yeah, more predictable limited overs shite.

At least they're playing the one-dayers before the Tests though, like in the Olden Days.

kevin04 wrote:Does this never end?

You just had a World Cup, ''The Ashes'' and WTF is this pish? 2 months of them playing in NZ?

The answer is no. The cricket calendar is now never ending. Off to South Africa after a short break. Then Sri Lanka and then we are back to the English season. Mix in the Big Bash and IPL.

Carlos J wrote:Would love to watch cricket in Napier and see all the art deco architecture.

Been there and done both. The architecture's great, but aside from that Napier is a bit like Brighton before it became a hip place to hang out - right down to the stony beach and sea front filled with cheap and cheerful B&Bs.

(Although much like Brighton it's probably changed a lot since I was last there.)

Jonathan wrote:

kevin04 wrote:Does this never end?

You just had a World Cup, ''The Ashes'' and WTF is this pish? 2 months of them playing in NZ?

The answer is no. The cricket calendar is now never ending. Off to South Africa after a short break. Then Sri Lanka and then we are back to the English season. Mix in the Big Bash and IPL.

And many of those nations like England have different T20 and fifty over teams from the test teams. The inaugural test championship started recently involving I think it was South Africa and India. How did that progress?

Lou Grant wrote:

Carlos J wrote:Would love to watch cricket in Napier and see all the art deco architecture.

Been there and done both. The architecture's great, but aside from that Napier is a bit like Brighton before it became a hip place to hang out - right down to the stony beach and sea front filled with cheap and cheerful B&Bs.

(Although much like Brighton it's probably changed a lot since I was last there.)

Nice. Will get there one day. Don't mind Brighton either.

kancutlawns wrote:The inaugural test championship started recently involving I think it was South Africa and India. How did that progress?

Table here:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/table/seri ... ampionship

The NZ series doesn't count towards it for some reason, so no points up for grabs in November. The reason for all the T20s is that the T20 World Cup takes place roughly 12 months from now.

Cheers Lou. I stand corrected, It was West Indies and India.

England Test squad:

Joe Root (Yorkshire) captain

Jofra Archer (Sussex)

Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire)

Rory Burns (Surrey)

Jos Buttler (Lancashire)

Zak Crawley (Kent)

Sam Curran (Surrey)

Joe Denly (Kent)

Jack Leach (Somerset)

Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire)

Matthew Parkinson (Lancashire)

Ollie Pope (Surrey)

Dominic Sibley (Warwickshire)

Ben Stokes (Durham)

Chris Woakes (Warwickshire)




England IT20 squad:

Eoin Morgan (Middlesex) captain

Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire)

Tom Banton (Somerset)

Sam Billings (Kent)

Pat Brown (Worcestershire)

Sam Curran (Surrey)

Tom Curran (Surrey)

Joe Denly (Kent)

Lewis Gregory (Somerset)

Chris Jordan (Sussex)

Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire)

Dawid Malan (Middlesex)

Matt Parkinson (Lancashire)

Adil Rashid (Yorkshire)