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1st Test June 20-24 @ Headingley
England team : Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes, Jamie Smith, Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue, Shoaib Bashir.

No Bethell & various fast bowlers .. Atkinson, Wood, Archer unavailable

India lose Kohli and Rohit Sharma to retirement after the debacle in Australia

To be fair Crawley got a pretty tough ball from Bumrah & they seem WEDDED to him
England going along nicely at 5 an over now
India’s problem is that with Bumrah they are like NZ when Hadlee played … world class at one end & Ilford second XI at the other
Understand after injury Bumrah is only likely to play 3 of the 5 Tests which is a major boost for England 

Crawley and Bashir shouldn't even be in the conversation to be in the Test team. I don't care if they suddenly do something in this Test, it is an insult to players out there who are grafting their nuts off in CC and performing consistently. Although I would pick Bethell over Haines, given he looks to the manor born.

I'm still not having Pope, he is nowhere near consistent enough, he could get a ton here then average 10 for the rest of series.

Need to get our bowlers fot, apparently Archer is fit for the next Test.

J. Smith
B. Duckett
J. Bethell
J. Root
H. Brook
B. Stokes (c)
O. Robinson (wk)
L. Dawson
G. Atkinson
​​​​​J. Archer
J. Tongue / Potts/ Cook

The good old days …
Caddick, Hollioake, Atherton , Stewart… Ashes series wins between them NIL

Good fight back at the end 7/41 ….5 batsmen contributed 2 runs between them
Cloud rolls in & lights on. Bit of rain to delay Bumrah

england cricket has gone downhill so much, sad.

i remember the good old days of andy caddick, the hollioake brothers, athers, stewart

Still don’t get why Anderson who is still the fittest bowler was sacked & Woakes who will be pushing 37 at the Ashes got the nod to carry on

Wood reckons he is aiming to be fit for the 5th Test & Archer will play for Sussex soon.
Not sure what is keeping Atkinson out. Pie addiction?

Saw the prematch & Wood & Broad wouldn’t say bowling first was wrong. Can understand Wood not wanting to get on the wrong side of the Kiwi brains trust but surely Broad doesn’t need to drink the Kool-aid now

Three centuries & two 4 ball ducks  

Terrible decision to field first, exacerbated by one of the worst attacks we’ve had for years. Anybody could see it was an excellent batting pitch.

But the Baazballers get an easy ride from the press.

India will get 650+ if they want to.

36-year-old Woakes, Carse and Bashir is a woeful “attack” on that pitch against that talent.

 

Sunny day, no demons in the pitch 
I know Headingley doesn’t deteriorate much these days on days 4 & 5 but seemed a strange decision for a self declared POSITIVE team
Wonder how the debutant feels sitting in the Pavillion with a 4 ball duck when everyone else filled their boots

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑20 Jun 2025, 11:00 England win the toss and BOWL

England win the toss and BOWL