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England 48 all out :P
Harmison 12(3)
Flintoff 36(7)
England 48 all out :P
Or something.
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Neil Carter is a bit of a guru up the order for Warwickshire...
Originally Posted by vic_orthdox
Difference between those two is, Harmison can bat....How about England open batting with Harmisson, give him an Afridi like role, let him swing that tree trunk of a bat he uses at every ball instead of wasteing him at the bottom of the order!!
Im going to get flamed now
Yeah, I bet Afridi can't play the reverse sweep like Harmy. Harmy's gonna break Afridi's 37-ball hundred record in the Ashes ODIs next year, you heard it here first!
In Srinath's 5 innings in WC99 he batted as follows: nine, eight, eight, eight, seven.
Harmison did indeed hammer a Lee Full-Toss over mid-wicket for four, in fact, but it was perhaps the best moment of The Ashes - no credit for Harmison, just great to see one of Australia's most beloved sons humiliated by an Englishman who can't bat for $hit. The ultimate symbol of how the series had turned.
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No, difference is, Afridi's got a shedload of talent that he's totally wasted for the last 2 years; Harmison is massively overrated after a few slog-fests against a totally clueless attack recently.
I'd like to see him (or, rather, I wouldn't) do that to Nel and Ntini in 5 months' time.
Carter's continued presence at the top of Warwicks' order in one-day-cricket is one of the more infuriating things for me.
It's reached the phase where Nick Knight, England's greatest ever one-day player and an opener and nothing else, has been forced to bat three of times this season.
Mark Wagh, also a natural opener in the one-day game (not so in the First-Class game IMO), hasn't batted there.
Carter is basically a number-eleven and whenever he makes 5 or less I laugh emphatically.
No, it's not fun, not if good bowlers are involved.fun to watch though
There is absolutely nothing worse, for me, than seeing good bowlers slogged by tail-enders.
Fun seeing crap ones slogged, though - like Harmison being hammered all over The Oval by Harbhajan.
So The NatWest Challenge has been renamed "The Ashes ODIs", now, then?Yeah, I bet Afridi can't play the reverse sweep like Harmy. Harmy's gonna break Afridi's 37-ball hundred record in the Ashes ODIs next year, you heard it here first!
What exactly is so bad about it?No, it's not fun, not if good bowlers are involved.
There is absolutely nothing worse, for me, than seeing good bowlers slogged by tail-enders.
Fun seeing crap ones slogged, though - like Harmison being hammered all over The Oval by Harbhajan
Last edited by Waughney; 04-09-2004 at 07:33 AM.
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I'm not too dissimilar a batsman to Bradman.
Both of us have batting averages below 100.
Players who shouldn't really be scoring any runs either messing-up figures or compounding agony.
Nothing worse for me than seeing a good player made to look bad by someone who isn't really good enough to be doing so, and under normal circumstances wouldn't have a cat-in-hell's chance of doing so.
All part of the game Richard, all part of the game. The 'normal circumstances' (for tailenders) aren't when the ball is new and when the bowler is at his prime, but when the ball is old and bowlers are tired.
I'd take seeing a tail-ender against the new-ball every time. Then we'd see a much more proper reflection of their ability.
Still, even in normal circumstances (older ball) the good bowler will oust the useless slogger more often than not.
It's the anomalies that annoy me.
So you get annoyed when England winsIt's the anomalies that annoy me.
Except that, in Test-matches in 2004, them not winning has been very much the anomaly.
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