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He deserves a thread Surely.


This South African may wear English Cap Soon.


He is just 24 years and 49 days old but my Word He has turned his Career Around in just 1 Fc season.


This is his 6th Fc season. In his first 55 Fc matches he averaged only 28.7 with 5 Fc hundreds in 5 years. While this year he is top run scorer currently in Division 1 of County Cricket and has scored 5 Fc Centuries this season while scoring more than 1000 Fc Runs with an Average of 68 plus.



It took him 55 Fc games 94 Fc innings to turn his Average Fc Career into suddenly becoming Top Batsman of Season.



Thumbs Up to his efforts and his Coaches Efforts.




Umar Waheed, Umar Akmal, Ahsan Ali, Umar Amin, Imam ul Haq please take note and take Insliration from this Lad.
 
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Plays for Durham right ? That's the hardest FC venue in England for a batsman. Always movement for the seamers.
 
Has had an extraordinarly good season so far, wouldn't actually qualify for England til 2019 (27 years old) though.
 
So many cricketers prosper and develop their game in county cricket and their system .
Hats off.
 
HitWicket said:
Has had an extraordinarly good season so far, wouldn't actually qualify for England til 2019 (27 years old) though.
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Has he given up SA Cricket ?


Can he play for them ?


Have SA Cricket given assurance to SA Gov that they will play 5 non white players every match from now onwards ?
 
TalentSpotterPk said:
Has he given up SA Cricket ?


Can he play for them ?


Have SA Cricket given assurance to SA Gov that they will play 5 non white players every match from now onwards ?
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He's just signed a 4 year contract up at Durham so I assume he intends to stick around here in England.
 
ethan hunt said:
I think zaheer khan was a pretty ordinary left armer till he came to england and played cricket there .
Kevin pieterson was another one who flourished in england .
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I was too young when Zaheer Khan made his Odi Debut.

Too Bachoongrha :)


But my memories tell him that He was Fast, Daring, Unlike Indian Pacers attitude, Big Heart, Talent & Skill Set.


Injuries pegged him back plus more than 80 % Indian pacers lose there Pace and lose it too early. But Zaheer wasn't ordinary in start or even end in my view.

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I thought Brexit meant Saffers paying for England nonsense was over

Anyways SA Cricket is done and dusted..
 
Chrish said:
I thought Brexit meant Saffers paying for England nonsense was over

Anyways SA Cricket is done and dusted..
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Britain hasn't left the EU yet. Jennings qualifies for county cricket through a British passport though and not a European passport though so it wouldn't matter. Like I said he qualifies for England in 2019.
 
ethan hunt said:
I think zaheer khan was a pretty ordinary left armer till he came to england and played cricket there .
Kevin pieterson was another one who flourished in england .
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Zaheer khan was very impressive when he debuted. Wasn't ordinary.

But like all India pacers, he lost his ability after 2 years.

After which, he went to play County and This is when county cricket made him more lethal than he was.
 
Great call.

He's fantastic. He toyed with their spinners for a while by playing that deft reverse sweep.
 
HitWicket said:
Britain hasn't left the EU yet. Jennings qualifies for county cricket through a British passport though and not a European passport though so it wouldn't matter. Like I said he qualifies for England in 2019.
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How did he play then?
 
Slog said:
How did he play then?
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Turns out he moved over here a couple of months before he started with Durham which enabled him to qualify under the old rules therefore skimming 3 years off the period.
 
Guy is courageous, after he was dropped at zero, hit two glorious 4s, a square cut and a pull, signs of a really talented batsman and a cricketer with a positive attitude. He is here to stay.
 
TalentSpotterPk said:
He deserves a thread Surely.


This South African may wear English Cap Soon.


He is just 24 years and 49 days old but my Word He has turned his Career Around in just 1 Fc season.


This is his 6th Fc season. In his first 55 Fc matches he averaged only 28.7 with 5 Fc hundreds in 5 years. While this year he is top run scorer currently in Division 1 of County Cricket and has scored 5 Fc Centuries this season while scoring more than 1000 Fc Runs with an Average of 68 plus.
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Apparently studying financial accounting helped with his batting. An altogether good example of the importance of education and appreciating a parent. From an article about him:

""Despite the cricket drills and apparently intense concentration upon success in the game, Keaton was also taught to embrace other aspects of life and understand that there is much more to it than sport. So he is currently studying for a degree in financial accounting and puts his much-improved performance in 2016 (he scored seven first-class centuries in the season; he had scored five in total before that) down to having found happiness outside the game.

"My dad made me do one thing in my life and that was to study," he explains. "I take my hat off to him. I'm really thankful he pushed me in that direction.

"And he has told me to enjoy the process and the culture of India.""
 
He has four hundreds in his last 11 innings including a 171* and 201*. I was surprised when I heard of him getting an England cap with such mediocre FC stats having never heard of him before. But then I read about how he worked with his dad for a considerable period of time to reinvent his batting. Hats off to him. But international cricket is a different ball game altogether and although he has had pretty much a perfect start, a long, hard road lies ahead.

Would've preferred him to represent his country of birth though.
 
Napa said:
Apparently studying financial accounting helped with his batting. An altogether good example of the importance of education and appreciating a parent. From an article about him:

""Despite the cricket drills and apparently intense concentration upon success in the game, Keaton was also taught to embrace other aspects of life and understand that there is much more to it than sport. So he is currently studying for a degree in financial accounting and puts his much-improved performance in 2016 (he scored seven first-class centuries in the season; he had scored five in total before that) down to having found happiness outside the game.

"My dad made me do one thing in my life and that was to study," he explains. "I take my hat off to him. I'm really thankful he pushed me in that direction.

"And he has told me to enjoy the process and the culture of India.""
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Napa thank you for sharing this Information.

Great to know that He is into education despite being a professional sportsman. Commendable.

Due Credit goes to his father.

Hope he has a great International Career.
 
TalentSpotterPk said:
Napa thank you for sharing this Information.

Great to know that He is into education despite being a professional sportsman. Commendable.

Due Credit goes to his father.

Hope he has a great International Career.
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Great thread and fantastic find, also there is hope for Umar Akmal! it's all down to him, maybe he should undertake a course or two it might teach him discipline, can imagine him having a go at the teachers after being grade a C :))
 
Another South African? Hilarious. Good to see the multiculturalism shining through though.
 
shaz619 said:
Great thread and fantastic find, also there is hope for Umar Akmal! it's all down to him, maybe he should undertake a course or two it might teach him discipline, can imagine him having a go at the teachers after being grade a C :))
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Thank You. See the system saw potential and skill in him and backed him despite him having poor numbers for 5,6 seasons.

Huge credit goes to the Coaches ultimately they refined him and hence he delivered and is delivering. Long may it continue Aameen.


Well I hope UA doesn't bunk all the Classes :-)

UA needs maturity and 400 folds improvement in IQ level for which reading and learning are the only tools which could help.
 
shaz619 said:
We'd never complain if they came to pak and found a talent like that
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I'm just starting to wonder if there's more SA playing for England than they're British :))

And I think fans have every reason to complain tbh. It's just getting OTT now.
 
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Best Wishes & Prayers for Keaton Jennings incase He gets picked.


I believe 16 membered Test Squad needs to be picked and both Haseeb & Keaton should be part of the Test Squad.


Ahsan Ali & Naveed Yasin should learn from guys like Jennings but Coaching Staff at Durham deserve huge Credit. There might be a hidden treasure at Durham who might become a very Successful International Coach in future.
 
shaz619 said:
Great thread and fantastic find, also there is hope for Umar Akmal! it's all down to him, maybe he should undertake a course or two it might teach him discipline, can imagine him having a go at the teachers after being grade a C :))
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Re-quoting you again as something clicked.


One of my very dear Online friend who had great Eye to identify talent/potential/natural ability believes that unless Fate or Allah turns around U Akmal's career He is finished.

He was a huge supporter and admirer of U Akmal. Even bigger than MRSN.


So now the game is entirely into the hand of Higher Supreme Super Natural Power whom I call Allah and whom you are searching.


Hope U Akmal surprises majority and turns it around but it is highly unlikely.
 
Could have driven a coach into his gap between bat and pad yesterday in that 2nd innings dismissal.

Not looking convincing in this series.
 
I'm sorry but there's a reason why I rather these players stay in domestic cricket and go on tour with the 'A side. Int' cricket isn't some continuation of amateur cricket or first-class cricket, it's the step up.

When you're clearly not ready, like some of these recent debutants from England, they'll be discarded and their national careers teetering on the edge of survival.

Talent isn't always everything. Test cricket is the epitome of the highest mental fortitude test. You fail, and it will spit you out.
 
Getting exposed at international level. Doesn't transfer his weight properly, hangs back in his crease and is too tentative.
 
Needs to go. This series has shown that he is not good enough for Test cricket.
 
I think Malan is the right choice to partner Cook in tests of now and Haseeb Hameed once he gets back into form.
Yes, Malan was out for 1 today but he got a peach of a ball from Rabada. I hope he gets a long run to prove himself.
 
Ahson8 said:
I think Malan is the right choice to partner Cook in tests of now and Haseeb Hameed once he gets back into form.
Yes, Malan was out for 1 today but he got a peach of a ball from Rabada. I hope he gets a long run to prove himself.
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Malan as opener in tests?:wahab2
 
This is what happens when you move too fast to introduce a player that needs more time. Tests are completely different to LOIs. Everything you do is magnified and nullified.
 
his technique has dissected by Saffer pacers especially Philander. Shows the difference in class between county n intl cricket.
 
Bayliss backs Jennings to adjust to Test cricket

MANCHESTER (England): England coach Trevor Bayliss has backed opening batsman Keaton Jennings to make the grade in international cricket despite his difficulties in the current series against South Africa.

England have struggled to find a regular opening partner for Alastair Cook and had hoped the Durham left-hander could be the answer after his century on debut in India last year.

But Jennings has failed to make a half-century in the current series with some experts questioning his technique.

Bayliss says the 25-year-old has the right attitude to battle through and make the changes he needs.
"Test cricket is a harsh world to come into. The one thing you would expect every player to have (is) guts - determination, the desire to improve and get better," said Bayliss.

"We thought in the second innings at The Oval he showed real application (scoring 48) and he really applied himself and got stuck in. Again today he started showing glimpses of someone who has made adjustments," said Bayliss.

But the England coach noted that Jennings has not had the time to go away and work on areas of his game that may need improvement.

"There is a lot said about players being found out at international level, he found out a lot about himself in these last few Test matches and there are areas of his game that he would want to work on but there hasn't been time to take a step back and perhaps work at things he would like to work on and enable him to be more successful in test cricket," he added.

Jennings made 17 on the opening day of the fourth and final Test at Old Trafford before an unconvincing stroke edged a simple catch to keeper Quinton de Kock off Duanne Olivier.

Bayliss though says the batsman has the right attitude to survive his difficulties.

"The one thing we would judge him on is his character, his personality to cope with the last few weeks. I have to say he is a very honest young man who works extremely hard at his game and given the chance to get through this spell and work at his game I think he will make a success at international cricket."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...just-to-test-cricket/articleshow/59925957.cms
 
Oh gawd, that means Bayliss will keep picking Jennings against West Indies and wants to take him to Australia as well. Facepalm.
 
Aussie bowlers will be licking their lips with a top six consisting of Jennings/Malan/Westely.

Eng selectors need to quickly assess who is likely to succeed in Aus as a batsman and give those the full WI series to get some form/confidence/experience.

Personally, only Westley gets that gig from the trio and they need to try out another opener and a middle order batsman.

Stoneman probably is the next cab off the rank, and Hameed as the other opening option.

Or with Woakes fit go with following as starters for the ashes.

1 Cook
2 Opener
3 Westley
4 Root
5 Bairstow
6 Stokes
7 Ali
8 Woakes
9 Toby Roland
10 Broad
11 Anderson
 
On_the_up said:
Aussie bowlers will be licking their lips with a top six consisting of Jennings/Malan/Westely.

Eng selectors need to quickly assess who is likely to succeed in Aus as a batsman and give those the full WI series to get some form/confidence/experience.

Personally, only Westley gets that gig from the trio and they need to try out another opener and a middle order batsman.

Stoneman probably is the next cab off the rank, and Hameed as the other opening option.

Or with Woakes fit go with following as starters for the ashes.

1 Cook
2 Opener
3 Westley
4 Root
5 Bairstow
6 Stokes
7 Ali
8 Woakes
9 Toby Roland
10 Broad
11 Anderson
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I don't see the need to ever have 5 pacers personally.
 
HitWicket said:
I don't see the need to ever have 5 pacers personally.
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Normally yes, but with Woakes averaging 36 in FC, he'll probably bring more to the table as a combo of batting/bowling than an inexperienced newbie batsman. You still have 7 batsmen plus Woakes and TRL who also knows which end of the bat to hold.
 
Is it time for Ian Bell to come back? Maybe even to open alongside Cook. Has a lot of experience (and some decent success) in Australian conditions, and surely can't be worse than some of the village prodders that are getting into the England top 5 at the moment.
 
James said:
Is it time for Ian Bell to come back? Maybe even to open alongside Cook. Has a lot of experience (and some decent success) in Australian conditions, and surely can't be worse than some of the village prodders that are getting into the England top 5 at the moment.
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Surely its a backward step bringing the sherminator back
 
Need to give Stoneman a go now, no excuse for it. You have to feel for Jennings who has learned that a golden first class summer doesn't prove that you're cut out for the sheer challenge of test cricket. It's unfortunate for Jennings that South Africa were up first rather than the West Indies, as one suspects whoever plays the next three tests will be first choice in Brisbane in November.
 
Hamza_ said:
This guy looks like Shan Masood
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Please don't say that. Shan only gets in the team because of daddy dearest who has pulled so many strings for him that you can have a full guitar solo by now.

At least this kid worked his butt off and got in the team through performance, it's a separate thing that he didn't capitalize.
 
Maybe time to give Alex Hales another go. I can see him having more success in the Ashes against the the quicks than some of the others in contention.

211 not out against Derbyshire at the moment.
 
So can he succeed against Pakistan where Stoneman failed?
 
MenInG said:
So can he succeed against Pakistan where Stoneman failed?
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He's having a good season but it will be a big challenge for him, if his heart is as big as Azhar Ali's I see him doing a good job [MENTION=139288]Abdul[/MENTION]
 
James said:
Surely can’t be any worse than Stoneman.
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I think this lad has a lot of potential. I remember his debut, looked very assured at the crease and knew when to defend and when to attack the bad ball.

What he needs is a good deck, perhaps batting second because he will be up against a very dangerous and now confident pace attack of Amir, Abbas and Hasan Ali.
 
Good luck to the lad but it's going to be difficult up against Amir and Abbas.
 
Keaton Jennings hoping to make most of second chance with England

Jennings was due to take an accountancy exam on Wednesday but found himself preparing for his Test return at Headingley instead

Keaton Jennings must make the numbers stack up this time after being given a second chance to prove himself as a Test match opener.

Jennings knows from his accountancy studies off the pitch as well as his previous England struggles on it that it can sometimes be difficult to achieve viable statistics.

In six Tests before being dropped in favour of Mark Stoneman nine months ago, the left-hander could muster only 294 runs at an average of 24.50 despite a century on debut in Mumbai.

Against Pakistan at Headingley this week, the 25-year-old will become the first of the 12 openers tried since 2012 as Alastair Cook’s partner to be given a second shot at what Jennings describes as “one of the toughest jobs in Test cricket”.

Long before he was first called up for England, Jennings began a university accountancy degree as a teenager – and he is still working towards his graduation, between cricket assignments.

Asked if he can make a success of his Test aspirations as England bid to battle back from their nine-wicket defeat at Lord’s, he said: “I suppose that’ll only be answered at the end of the week.

“You will only get judged on the amount of runs you score.

“With cricket, you can do everything right and things just don’t work out sometimes.

“(But) I’m really excited for this week – I want to play with a happy heart and a big smile on my face.”

Jennings hopes his move from Durham to Lancashire will help him handle his return to Test cricket.

“I’ve moved away to address those issues, not only technically but in my life and the way I was going about things,” he said.

“If there are runs on the board then great – if not, I guess there’s more addressing to be done.”

In a BBC interview, he made it clear he will not invite extra pressure.

He added: “I want to enjoy this week. It might be the last Test I play – so I really want to enjoy the feeling.

“It’s one of the toughest jobs in Test cricket, especially in England.

Jennings’ brief is to ensure he does not become the first to be ‘rotated’ twice – and to that end he will rely on relevant knowledge already acquired.

“You try and lean on your support structure, lean on people you trust, anybody at the time that you feel is going to make a difference and pull you through that dark period,” he said, recalling the circumstances preceding his omission last summer.

“This is huge. I feel privileged, honoured and I hope I can make an impact.”

Jennings also had to deal with one awkward extra press-conference topic.

Allegations in an Al Jazeera documentary have cited claims of ‘spot-fixing’ passages of play in the Chennai Test between England and India in 2016.

The England and Wales Cricket Board, as well as current captain Joe Root and coach Trevor Bayliss, have already issued strenuous denials.

Jennings, who opened in the match, said: “I wasn’t aware of anything at the time. We think it’s complete rubbish.”

http://sport.bt.com/cricket/keaton-...of-second-chance-with-england-S11364275184993
 
Pakistan bowlers just need to bowl with discipline against jennings and there are enough flaws in his Technic to dismiss him cheaply during the game.
 
Out for 29. Decent innings, took a good ball to get him.
 
Looked improved. Deserves the rest of the summer. After that we will know where he stands as a international player.
 
Still has a weakness with footwork and outside his off stump.

Time for Rory Burns.
 
Smith will probably pick Burns and Vince for the next test. Jennings is likely to get one more chance, not because of anything he has shown at the crease, but as a consequence of Cook being absent at Southampton due to the birth of his child.

On merit, both Jennings and Cook should really be dropped but I don't see anyone other than Burns knocking on the door. Arguably, Joe Denly in Division 2 but I reckon his time has passed.
 
I think he is a goner now.

It’s not just been the hopeless batting this time but also some dropped catches that have cost the team.
 
Last Monetarist said:
Smith will probably pick Burns and Vince for the next test. Jennings is likely to get one more chance, not because of anything he has shown at the crease, but as a consequence of Cook being absent at Southampton due to the birth of his child.

On merit, both Jennings and Cook should really be dropped but I don't see anyone other than Burns knocking on the door. Arguably, Joe Denly in Division 2 but I reckon his time has passed.
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Burns wont last long, he looks like a guy that is watching someone in the crowd when the bowler runs in.
 
Bewal Express said:
Burns wont last long, he looks like a guy that is watching someone in the crowd when the bowler runs in.
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Why would that necessarily mean he won't last long? It's not exactly conventional but it's evidently been working for him.
 
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I agree if he gets runs straight away but if the guy doesnt and his technique is awkward, he wont last long.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Paul Farbrace on Keaton Jennings in today's press conference "I would like to think he’s done enough in difficult situations to be opening the batting come the first Test in Sri Lanka." Jennings has 163 runs at an average of 18 in this series <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ENGvIND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ENGvIND</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1038855807042048000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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That debut innings was a fluke. Not good enough for test cricket. Lankan spinners will eat him for breakfast.
 
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