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nightprowler10

nightprowler10

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harsh.ag said:
You just run out of things to say, I guess.... But we could and should have a little thread where only posters who joined before 2005 have a discussion. I would like to read that. I ma guessing it will be much nicer and more nuanced and less heated than the ones we end up with usually :)
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Not sure what that has anything to do with what I said about my pathetic lack of activity, but ok.

Anyhoo, I'm a bit of a Wasim Akram and Bart King 'stan'.
 
grecian

grecian

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Hmm, both mentioned are probably more ironic than anything, though I have become happy when they're doing well. I'm a genuine fan of Jos, Broad and Sanga.

Growing up my idols from books I read and County performance were probably all Middx men, I think because my dad was a fan. Patsy Hendren (his cricinfo pic still looks the most like a Victorian serial-killer, which I obviously approve of), Compton and the current and Fat Gatt.From Somerset Bill Alley, IVA Richards and Garner too and perhaps embarrassingly now, Peter Roebuck.
 
Zinzan

Zinzan

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For me, nobody else comes close in terms of being a cricketing hero than one M D Crowe was when I saw him as a kid dominating the worlds best Windies attack (featuring Marshall, Holding, Garner & co) in 1988. From memory he scored hundreds in the first 2 tests and 80 odd in the 3rd (after the Windies had been dismissed for just 100 on a spicy deck). It was Crowe at the absolute peak of his powers. Even more so than his 299 against SL or his '92 WC form.
 
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smash84

smash84

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Zinzan said:
For me, nobody else comes close in terms of being a cricketing hero than one M D Crowe was when I saw him as a kid dominating the worlds best Windies attack (featuring Marshall, Holding, Garner & co) in 1988. From memory he scored hundreds in the first 2 tests and 80 odd in the 3rd (after the Windies had been dismissed for just 100 on a spicy deck). It was Crowe at the absolute peak of his powers. Even more so than his 299 against SL or his '92 WC form.
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Being a bit pedantic here but hadn't Garner and Holding retired by 1988?
 
smash84

smash84

The Tiger King
Zinzan said:
For me, nobody else comes close in terms of being a cricketing hero than one M D Crowe was when I saw him as a kid dominating the worlds best Windies attack (featuring Marshall, Holding, Garner & co) in 1988. From memory he scored hundreds in the first 2 tests and 80 odd in the 3rd (after the Windies had been dismissed for just 100 on a spicy deck). It was Crowe at the absolute peak of his powers. Even more so than his 299 against SL or his '92 WC form.
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Being a bit pedantic here but hadn't Garner and Holding retired by 1988?
 
smash84

smash84

The Tiger King
How distant of a relative is he? Was his great ancestor your great ancestor's cousin 40 generations back?
 
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