Speaking of captaincy skills, deciding upon the batting order is always one job that is more of an art than skill. The art being to keep most of the players happy most of the time. No doubt the players believe that there is not much to this art but the science (or rather the maths) doesn't agree.
There are, believe it or not, around 40 million different batting orders that can be selected using a team of 11 players (that is calculated as 11 factorial for those that care or understand (represented as 11! by us oldies) ). So cut us captains some slack if you think we get it wrong from time to time.
As far as the Socials are concerned, I am working my way steadily through the batting order options trying to find that magic formula that will eliminate that ever present likelihood of a batting collapse. But you will now understand that the odds of Marcus and Ed opening the batting one day are pretty remote - which I guess is a relief to everyone else at least.
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