Key events
The corridor of the left arm Richard Ngarava will open the bowling against the zak crawley in the form. For the first time in the Bazball era, Crawley’s place in the team is threatened.
Never a more real five words
“Test Cricket is back,” says Marcus Abdullahi. “Rejoice!”
The players are ready. Zak Crawley smiles, Ben Duckett still smiles. Leave the summer correspondence summer match.
“First Cook in a team from England for seven years”, “ Said Andrew Goudie. “How time is going on.”
Isn’t that. We are all going to die, I’m afraid.
“It seems to me that Zimbabwe has understoodWith five quisors, and England is limited to four years, “explains John Starbuck.” They are short of sewing and, unlike certain previous selections, they have only one versatile (root, a limited spokesman) since Stokes should not exercise his fragile body for the moment. Shoaib Bashir may have done a good job, even if we have a limited choice of possible designers. »»
John, John, John, in the next eight months, we will have a million conversations on the balance of England. Let’s take advantage of ourselves for a few days-or until Zimbabwe reaches 200 for 3 in response to the 121 All Out in England and Gus Atkinson and Josh Tongue were injured and Ben Stokes is in his 12th above offspin because he pulled the two hamstrings.
“Se7en?” Sniffs Matt Dony. “Not a happy ending? John Doe gets exactly what he wanted, and who does not like a charming little gift? After these next eight months, Baz and Stokes can move away in a sepia sunset for a well -deserved rest, like Mills and Somerset.”
Oh, so now we are making jokes about the brutal murder of innocent fictitious characters?
You sick.
A little pre-match reading
Teams
The Zimbabwe team includes Ben Curran, his brother of Tom and Sam, the brilliant Allrounder White-Ball Sikandar Raza and the chic striker of the intermediate order Sean Williams.
(For those who do not know him, Ben’s father, Kevin, was a fiery and punchy versatile who played 11 Odi for Zimbabwe and spent the best part of 15 years in the County Cricket. If the residence qualification had been shorter than 10 years, he would have surely played for England.) If qualification.
England Crawley, Duckett, Pope, Root, Brook, Stokes (C), Smith (WK), Atkinson, Tongue, Cook, Bashir.
Zimbabwe Curran, Bennett, Ervine (C), Williams, Shine, Makza, Stove, Ships, Ships, Hunger, Hire, Panic.
Zimbabwe wins the draw and the bowl
This means an early overview of A) Zak Crawley and B) the exciting rapid launcher of Zimbabwe Muzarabani. It is covered in Trent Bridge – although Stuart Broad, the local expert, thinks it is a little too cold for the ball to swing.
Ben Stokes says he would also have played.
England appointed their team a few days agoWith the aforementioned Sam Cook which made its test debut at the age of 27. His file in domestic cricket, all in division one, is scandalously good: 300 counters at an average of 18 years. He could be Scott Boland in England.
England Crawley, Duckett, Pope, Root, Brook, Stokes (C), Smith (WK), Atkinson, Tongue, Cook, Bashir.
After years to be ignored because England was also rans Being overshadowed by the world test championship, the ranking is back!
This four -day test is the first meeting between the parties since 2003When England won the two tests by a round. Interesting team they had, a mixture of generations with a few bolters.
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Marcus very
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Michael Vaughan
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Mark Butcher
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Nasser Hussain (C)
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Robert Key
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Alec Stewart (WK)
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Anthony McGrath
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Ashley Giles
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Matthew Hoggard (Richard Johnson in the second test)
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Steve
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James Anderson
Overview of Ali Martin
If the story of English cricket tells us something – and a recall only came last winter with the female team and a bloodbath in Australia which forced a change of captain and coach – it is because these things tend to function in accordance with the ash cycle. Whatever the iteration of Bazball, its place in history – and some jobs in the configuration – will probably be defined by the test results in the next nine months.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to the third and last act of Bazball, the High Concept film that has consumed English cricket in recent years. The first two acts followed a narrative arc that Robert McKee would approve, if only he knew what was cricket in hell. In 2022 and 2023, we had the configuration, England playing astonishing cricket and sweeping (almost) all before them. Last year, they encountered conflicts and obstacles, with serial defeats in India and Pakistan and an increasing reaction against the word B.
It is now time for resolution. Over the next eight months, England will play 11 test games, starting with Zimbabwe in Trent Bridge over the next four days, and the historic judgment on Bazball will be thrown. We all know what a happy ending looks like: Sydney, early January, Ben Stokes holding a small urn and hemorrhage of tears of joy like the modern man he is. But all the big films – and Bazball are certainly not that – has a happy ending: Mulholland Drive, Se7en, Casablanca, Chinatown. If England draws with India and is struck by Australia, the euphoria of law un will be forgotten. Forget it Baz is in Australia.
There is something else to consider. England has slipped to No2 in the testing of tests, a subject that we are contractually forced to mention only when they have a chance to reach first place. There is an unknown achievable script by which they can win ashes in Australia And Become the world No1 at the time. Do not be too excited, however; The world test championship is still prohibited. Even if England won the 11 tests, they will lose so many points for an slow exaggerated pace that they will probably still be stuck in the middle of the table.
England should beat Zimbabwe during a gallop, so the accent is on individual stories. Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope play realistically for a single place against India; Sam Cook A Finally was abandoned from the largest XI not plated in England; Shoaib Bashir has been kept despite a bruise six months; And Josh Tongue, who has played fiercely for Notts since his return from injury, has played his first test since the Lord’s ashes of 2023.
Lord 2023. Jonny Baistow’s Stumping, Ben Stokes pumping six to all games. The stakes felt in the bloody era, even if we were still in Act one. Now this is the start of act three, and it’s time to This laborious metaphor to stop The boot.
The game starts at 11am, With the draw at 10:30 am.
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