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Originally Posted by iadom
https://www.cricket.com.au/news/engl...man/2017-08-13
This slightly out of date(2018) list suggests that apart from obvious stop gap openers such as Root, Trott and Moeen Ali, all the openers tried since Strauss retired have been given more than, to quote you ‘a couple of test matches’.
A broken finger curtailed the young Lancashire batsman Habeeb but since then he has done very little. Reading that article also shows that the other openers tried including Compton who was given two bites at the cherry rarely set the world on fire after returning to the ranks. If you take out Root, Trott and Ali, one of whom has retired and the other two are still in the England squad that leaves just 8 batsmen tried and discarded in the past 8 years. Please name me one of those on that list that deserved or even now deserves another chance?
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When l say given a fair run l would say at least 10 to 20 test matches and most of those apart from a couple have not been given a long run like that.
l remember several openers for other countries who struggled for a fair while before they made the breakthrough.
l still say we chop and change our openers too much.