Editor’s Pick: England

Editor’s Pick: England - South Africa

In the first match, England crushed South Africa by nine wickets. It was a convincing victory that put South Africa in its place. Morgan called it as close to a complete performance as possible. Looks like the new ball bowling made all the difference. Man of the match Jonny Bairstow was immensely pleased with his performance. If you had him in your fantasy lineup, you’d be pleased too.

Earlier in June, we saw Pakistan beat England by eight wickets and South Africa beat Sri Lanka by a colossal 96 runs. Nothing can really be predicted clearly.

But I do have a line up in my head that can be based not just on the performance of the players at the CT but in the previous match. Earlier I had assumed that the lineup in the first match won’t be that different from the second. But looks like I have made a couple of big changes.

Jonny Bairstow

AB De Villiers

Farhaan Behardien

Alex Hales

Jason Roy

Mark Wood

David Willey

Andile Phehlukwayo

Mason Crane

Jos Buttler

Tabraiz Shamsi

Would you agree with the above lineup? Do comment and let us know.

Indu

P.S. Please note that the above-expressed opinions are purely the Editor’s. We do not take responsibility, nor can we guarantee the performance of the players. All the best !!!

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