Is it okay to drop Jos Buttler?

1. ‘More effortless’? Is that a thing now? Surely something’s effortless. i.e. requires literally zero effort, or requires some finite amount of effortless?

   Anyway, needless pedantry aside, it does sound like he’s going to be dropped (to leave Bairstow free to do a lot more dropping, eh readers?) judging by the wording used by Bayliss today:

   “He’s [Buttler] disappointed with the amount of runs he’s scored,” said Bayliss. “I don’t think he’s far off scoring runs.
   “We know he’s a class quality player and I believe he’ll play a lot for England going forward. We’re certainly not concerned about him long term.”

   Number of runs, yes. He’s certainly not scoring enough for them to be considered an uncountable mass noun. Buttler has a long-term future, however – he’s also due, it would seem.

   1. *finite amount of effort

      Aaargh, spake I all can’t

   2. Not needless. We’d already stumbled over that line once and knew it was annoying. We’ll change it.

   3. But maybe he is due.

      He could have saved up all his runs and was going to use them now. But if they drop him he may lose his dueness.

2. butt jostler

   1. Why haven’t we heard that before? That’s excellent.

   2. I giggled. I feel bad for giggling.

3. Isn’t Jos Buttler’s problem a failure to drop him?

   I mean, if Younis and Sarfraz Ahmed had both dropped him at Dubai he may have actually scored some bloody runs.

4. Can you drop a wicket keeper who pretty much cannot buy a test match run at the moment?

   Yes you can.

   For sure we should persevere with him in one day stuff and he is more likely to revive his test career playing the other international stuff well than returning to county cricket.

   Especially in October. County cricket is rubbish at this time of year. Vacuous.

5. If it means we pick an XI with more than three batsmen in it, I’m all in favour.

   I guess Taylor will be in for him, so at least we’ll have 3.5.

   I’d rather not have Moeen opening either, but I’d have no faith in Hales getting any runs either. Promote Bell to opener?

   1. Daneel’s a Leicestershire-supporting Michael Vaughn. #justsaying

      1. I’ve killed for less than that.

      2. Your post also suggests that you read the Telegraph and/or pay attention to Michael Vaughan. Not sure which is worse.

      3. TMS page on Facebook surprised me with it. I didn’t watch the accompanying video, oh God no.

   2. Actually these words echo Daisy’s thoughts on the matter, not least promoting Bell to opener.

      Daisy neither reads the Telegraph nor pays attention to Michael Vaughan. She reads tea leaves and pays attention to the Verdict, though.

6. Jonny Bairstow keeping on a pitch where we will probably play 2 spinners? As daneel would say #justsaying

7. In other news, Tokyo Sexwale. That is all.

   1. He sounds like the sort of “wail” a resident of “Tokyo” might make during “sex”. A Tokyo Sex Wail, if you will. Except that his surname is pronounced SEX-WAH-LEH, so it would have to be a WAH-LEH made by a Tokyo resident during sex, and I don’t know what one of those is.

      Oh, I know. How about WALLY. A Tokyo Sex Wally. That being someone having sex in Tokyo in the middle of a big crowd while wearing a stripy hat.

      A Japanese sport where you kick a ball against a building as a precursor to sex?

      1. I don’t care what you say, Bert.

         He’ll always be, sex whale to me.

8. Well nobody else has made the tiresome obvious response, so I may as well:

   Yes, he’ll probably give you another chance in the next over.

9. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSaKoX1UEAAnIJm.png

   1. Amsterdam Oral Shark……I quite like it.

10. Isn’t the answer no?

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