Which is the more idiotic recent pundit selection idea?

[opener]

Bumble putting forward Bresnan as a test bowler or Schyld Berry wanting Prior to play as a specialist test batsman?

 

[Goughy]

I didnt hear Bumble promote Bresnan. Interesting.

He clearly isnt close to being Test match standard. However, he has progressed in the last 12 months with the ball.

No speculative decisions should be made, if he is going to be a good bowler and decent 7 or 8 then let him prove it over the next few years.

A long way from being ready and probably never wil be.

 

[Richard]

Compared to picking Darren Pattinson and continuing to pick Stuart Broad, both seem like masterful ideas.

 

[opener]

I didnt hear Bumble promote Bresnan. Interesting.

He clearly isnt close to being Test match standard. However, he has progressed in the last 12 months with the ball.

No speculative decisions should be made, if he is going to be a good bowler and decent 7 or 8 then let him prove it over the next few years.

A long way from being ready and probably never wil be.

For the record, it was during play yesterday afternoon that he brought him up. I almost fell out of my chair.

 

[zaremba]

Bumble putting forward Bresnan as a test bowler or Schyld Berry wanting Prior to play as a specialist test batsman?

Well Scyld Berry, as we all know, hasn't got the first idea what he's talking about. And plainly Prior doesn't have either the Test batting record or the First Class record this season to justify playing as a specialist batsman...

 

[Manee]

For the record, it was during play yesterday afternoon that he brought him up. I almost fell out of my chair.

IIRC, he was just crunching some numbers as to who would be a good horses for courses selection, I don't recall Lloyd backing him as the best option.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Well Scyld Berry, as we all know, hasn't got the first idea what he's talking about. And plainly Prior doesn't have either the Test batting record or the First Class record this season to justify playing as a specialist batsman...

Not sure if you're being ironic or not, but 788 runs @ 49.25 isn't awful at all.

I think Prior has definite potential as a test bat; it's just he can't catch a cold.

 

[Richard]

Not sure if you're being ironic or not

He is.

I found it harder to tell whether he was on the Scyld Berry comment, but to date my presumption is that that too was indeed ironic.

 

[zaremba]

Just to put everyone out of their misery, yes, I would think that Scyld Berry knows more about cricket than the rest of us put together, and I was indeed being ironic.

 

[opener]

Just to put everyone out of their misery, yes, I would think that Scyld Berry knows more about cricket than the rest of us put together.

Reeling off stats and memories wise maybe, but he probably knows and understands about as much about the game as someone like John Motson does about Association Football.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Just to put everyone out of their misery, yes, I would think that Scyld Berry knows more about cricket than the rest of us put together, and I was indeed being ironic.

Guessed as much after reading your pro-Prior comments in the "English keeper" thread.

 

[zaremba]

Reeling off stats and memories wise maybe, but he probably knows and understands about as much about the game as someone like John Motson does about Association Football.

You're quite right, stats and memories are a pretty poor way of judging cricket. Apart from those, what do you use? A vivid imagination and a witty sense of humour?

You're also quite right that this fool knows naff-all about cricket. Which is why the fact that he's editor of Wisden is all the more tragic.

 

[opener]

You're quite right, stats and memories are a pretty poor way of judging cricket. Apart from those, what do you use? .

Yeah but if that were the only criteria to knowing anything about the game, then that would make Richard a knowledgable poster.

 

[zaremba]

Yeah but if that were the only criteria to knowing anything about the game, then that would make Richard a knowledgable poster.

Fair point, well made.

 

[Goughy]

Yeah but if that were the only criteria to knowing anything about the game, then that would make Richard a knowledgable poster.

From a guy with a supposed 15 posts in their first weeks as a member, that is a presumptive call.

Who are you really?

 

[opener]

From a guy with a supposed 15 posts in their first weeks as a member, that is a presumptive call.

Who are you really?

How long does it take to work that out about said poster?

It was immediately apparent.

 

[Richard]

From a guy with a supposed 15 posts in their first weeks as a member, that is a presumptive call.

Who are you really?

Unless it's Beevers dabbling in duplicate accounts (can't see who else other than he or this much-more-likely fellow is going to make that Motson comment) there's only one person it could be.

Guess I guessed right... again.

 

[opener]

Unless it's Beevers dabbling in duplicate accounts (can't see who else other than he or this much-more-likely fellow is going to make that Motson comment) there's only one person it could be.

Guess I guessed right... again.

Medal's in the post, Sherlock.

 

[zaremba]

 

[fredfertang]

Do try and stay awake Mr Zaremba - It's not as if you haven't just had 3 months rest