Will King

Fifty three year old father of four,, follow Villa, Brackley Town, #youbears, run and cycle, Classic and Prog Rock obsessive.

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@bbc5live please do not platform "ICE" agents who try to excuse the murder of a protester.

It is not ok to shoot protesters even if they have a holstered gun. This is fascism with the rule of the jack boot. Please hold them to account.

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@Psyduck1980 @Alasdair333 spinners bowl well into their 30s - see Edmonds / Emburey / Warne / Hemmings / Benaud.... not sure if you've heard of them.

Worrall qualifies as English this summer - sure you were aware of that ;-)

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@Yas_Wisden Agreed - he and Finn have been excellent in a sea of mediocrity. Often watch TNT with the sound down to avoid the rugby boys / Swann talking inanities.

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@cmkusher This is a problem I wish I had :-)

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@Jasperc53 Loyalty from Stokes apparently.

TBF to Key and McCullum they wanted Bethell in from the English summer.

Seems misguided in hindsight - just another Bazball wasted selection (Bashir, Crawley, Carse, Smith as wk etc)

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@brucemillington How about his run out in the second innings?

He is an exceptional talent much like Buttler, but he needs to play innings rather than a series of shots.

Play the situation, not for your ego.

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@legsidelizzy So suprising that a batter with a FC average around 30 would average slightly less at a higher standard? Who knew?

In all seriousness we could have been blooding batters much better suited to tests e.g. Haines, Hain etc - we've wasted years on this nonsense.

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@tds122 Agree with you - when he had his breakthrough season after covid, he could swing the ball late - now seems to be a "hit the pitch" bowler.

I think somebody has told him to bowl 5mph quicker if he wants to play for England a la Woakes 2010?

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@BoothCricket 🤦🏼

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@MarkGottlieb Similar to where Dan Lawrance ended up… It’s a bonfire of careers.

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@Ben_Wisden Oh my, that’s what you took away from this?

A bowler who finally pitched it up after eight innings, and a selection thatmost of us would’ve made a year ago?

Wow…

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@samsfooty23 @AGSteel28 @thefulltoss He’s really not - check Woakes’ test record.

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@thefulltoss Completely, scored runs for fun and took loads of wickets for Glamorgan.

Who do we pick from Glamorgan?

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@markuswrites Two things can be right at the same time.

Bethel should’ve been 3 since the Ireland and West Indies series.

Given they didn’t do that, Bethel should be slotting in at 6 with the senior players taking 3

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@haircutEnforcer @willis_macp I suspect you’ll find he’s fine for that and the IPL but won’t be fit for the Odis in Sri Lanka.

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@NoContextCounty Reminds me of when Boris Johnson ordered an investigation into parties where he lived that he attended 🤦🏼

Just kicking the car down the road…

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@mroller98 @ESPNcricinfo I think you mis-spelled "untenable" ;-)

Key has doubled down on the Bazball idea: selecting from TikTok; line and length doesn't win tests, retire Anderson and Woakes; selecting his best mate's son...

He wasn't even a good commentator

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@cricketingview there are plenty of WKs in the county championship who would back themselves to survive the new ball.

Take Rew, Cox (either), Davies or Foakes for starters. If you don't think you can play Starc, you probably shouldn't be playing in the Ashes?

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@ESPNcricinfo This is palpable nonsense.

Picking a team of talented players and now working on the basics of how to bat in difficult conditions, where and how to bowl and being great in the field.

This is on the coaching - it's been awful and lots of us have predicted this farce.