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**Official** England in the West Indies 2013-14

Howe_zat

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Miller leaving it, because you've got to wait until the 46th over to play your shots. Those are the rules that he's just made up.
 
King Pietersen

King Pietersen

International Captain
This isn't commentary. This is just two old blokes chatting. Both absolute legends of the game, but this feels like a podcast being played over the top of a live cricket match. Since Roberts came on commentary they've barely mentioned the game other than the wickets.
 
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King Pietersen said:
This isn't commentary. This is just two old blokes chatting. Both absolute legends of the game, but this feels like a podcast being played over the top of a live cricket match. Since Roberts came on commentary they've barely mentioned the game other than the wickets.
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Eh. The game's still there, it's not as though you need Botham's expert technical opinion. If there were interesting stories and personalities involved it'd be great, as it was it was less interesting a discussion than a CW all time thread, because those sometimes have fredfertang

I just muted it, the problem is the personnel not the topic.
 
grecian

grecian

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Such a lovely shot, almost as if the bat is an extension of the long-flowing beautiful beard.:wub:
 
BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
It's been remarked on before, but Rampaul's heft really is quite impressive in 2014.

Do the Windies employ an conditioning coach, one wonders?
 
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King cricket said:
In truth, these long batting orders are no such thing. Test pitches are more forgiving these days, so mediocre batsmen can score well. Yesterday, Mitchell Johnson – a reasonable batsman with a Test hundred – was asked a couple of questions by the man who sounds like he should be a Nordic aviary, Danish Kaneria. Mitchell Johnson did not have the answers.

If it were a French test, Johnson would have said ‘boeuf?’ in the vain hope that might have made sense. It didn’t.

A couple of wide deliveries were left alone. Johnson looked like he knew what he was doing, but they were wide enough he could leave them without needing to know which they were spinning.

A straighter ball then had to be played at because if it were a leg break, it would have hit the stumps. Was it a leg break? No, it was a googly. Johnson’s defensive push missed it by about a foot. “Boeuf?”

Next ball was fractionally wider and maybe a bit fuller. Is it the googly again, Mitchell? Kaneria’s leg break splattered the stumps.
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This also applies to what just happened to Wright
 
King Pietersen

King Pietersen

International Captain
Roll on Jonathan Trott's return. Luke Wright is an awful, awful batsman. Should be nowhere near international cricket.
 
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King Pietersen said:
Roll on Jonathan Trott's return. Luke Wright is an awful, awful batsman. Should be nowhere near international cricket.
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But he scores too slowly! What we need is POWER HITTERS who don't waste any time in getting back to the pavilion. Textbook innings from Wright
 
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