archie mac
International Coach
Sean's mention of Fred Tate forgot to include one thing - "I have a boy at home who will put all that right for me". And Maurice did indeed.
Mate you have been doing some reading, good to see
Sean's mention of Fred Tate forgot to include one thing - "I have a boy at home who will put all that right for me". And Maurice did indeed.
On a totally extraneous note, is your nickname based on G. Derek West's celebrated tome?Surely KP's effort the other day would be hard to beat?
Romantic though it may be to record that Fred thenceforth devoted every possible moment to nurturing his son into the cricketer who would one day amend the escutcheon, young Maurice was in fact allowed to grow up in perfect normality, without any of the coercive pressures that other, more preponderant fathers would've applied. Certainly, M.W. Tate didn't become great owing to any paternal teachings; it was, as we know, quite by accident.Sean's mention of Fred Tate forgot to include one thing - "I have a boy at home who will put all that right for me". And Maurice did indeed.
Worry not, Richie, m'boy; I was just looking for an excuse to indulge myself.Oh, no, I certainly wasn't intending to suggest such.
Just that Fred had some consolation in Maurice.
Sorry. I didn't know that that one was supposed to denote sarcasm. (It looks perfectly friendly to me. ) To make it up to you, though...Rolleyes?
Collins is an atrocious fielder though so.......
- Any of Dravid's drops as keeper can come, but in a Test match in Sharjah in 2002, there was one drop that takes the cake- mid-on, a Pakistani batsman offers a catch to Pedro Collins, who drops it. Can't get worse than that.
- Guyana, 2002. Hooper on zero. Srinath gets a good edge to Deep Dasgupta. Drop. Two hundred and thirty three. Not to mention, there are three hundred and nine reasons you don't even drop Sehwag once, let alone five times as the Pakistanis did in Multan in 2004.
"This could have been early jitters for the Indian opening pair. Luckily for them, Pedro doesn't catch much" - Christy Simson, ESPN/STARCollins is an atrocious fielder though so.......
Indeed mate, I should have mentioned that - well spotted.Nah, Graham Thorpe off Richard Dawson (Sanjay Bangar being the batsman) is impossible to beat IMO. Never seen a simpler one put down, even on Sunday (or Wednesday) at Exeter CC.
Just a leading-edge, dolly's pace, straight to him, nice easy chest height, could have gone with up or down hands, but somehow missed it.
Might have had something to do with the same circumstances that meant the poor bloke had to fly home at the end of the Test.
was abt to mention that...Paul Reiffel palming Klusener's straight drive over the boundary for six in the 1999 semi-final could have been one of the most significant drops ever, but we all know what happened soon after...
NayOn a totally extraneous note, is your nickname based on G. Derek West's celebrated tome?
... not easy or simple, but catchable beyond doubt.Also Healy's drop of Lara in that 1999 test at Barbados. Not easy or simple, but what an effect it would have had.....