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    How should England go about developing spinners?

    Agreed. There seems to have been an idea that spinners arrive fully formed and it's just a question of looking hard enough for the right one. Whereas in fact there's a lot to be said for the idea that spin bowling as an art takes time to perfect.
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    Might do a better job than some of the current Lancs 1st XI tbf.
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    Was he the guy who fraudulently got himself onto the staff at Lancs(?) by claiming to have played at a high level, and no-one checked?
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    How Good Was Sydney F Barnes?

    At 5'50 in the documentary that was linked earlier there's a photo from the 1901-2 Australian tour. Assuming it does in fact show SF Barnes, he appears to be delivering a bouncer, and the keeper is stood a reasonable distance back from the stumps, perhaps 15 yards or so. That would suggest he...
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    He seems to have reinvented himself as a dasher in the Bazball mode too. IIRC he blocked like Boycott first time around.
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    "We are also working closely with the Grounds Team to look at how we can perform better at Emirates Old Trafford, having experienced the challenging conditions to bowl teams out twice." I think he means "once".
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    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    Do we actually have any reliable metric for measuring how good a slip cordon was back in the day? I guess dropped catches are recorded now along with all the other sorts of microdata that statisticians use, but prior to 2000 or so all you can do is look at the scorebook and see the ones that...
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    Crikey that's strong stuff. But yes without Harris it's hard to see how Lancs would even be in double figures points-wise at this stage.
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    Great win for Northants but what on earth has become of Lancs this season? They've been beyond awful.
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    Seems a lot of opponents have deliberately prepared roads in the knowledge that Surrey lack a really good spinner.
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    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    Where do we draw the line between batting all-rounder, "fifth bowler" and very occasional bowler? In England teams that I can remember for example, the likes of Marcus Trescothick, Ian Bell, Graham Gooch and Dan Lawrence have all had a bowl at some point, usually in a desperate attempt to break...
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    Worcestershire 18 not 10
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    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    I'm going to swim against the tide here and say that slip catching is the least important consideration, not because it isn't a crucial skill but because most Test teams naturally have plenty of good slip catchers. One player is often preferred to another by selectors because of their lower...
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    Essex were fielding Rajitha as an overseas player, and he looked reasonably pacey as far as I could tell from the live stream. They do also have Jamal Richards who is more of an out and out fast bowler than Porter or Cook, but he doesn't seem to have broken into their first team yet.
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    Durham County Cricket Club

    The opposite problem at Grace Road, a super spicy pitch that seamed and offered variable bounce throughout. Which makes it all the more galling that we won the toss, put them in and then conceded 300+.
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    Guthrie is probably being rested having played all three Northants matches so far, not that he has been particularly impressive. Conway looked good yesterday but was obviously knackered by the end of the day.
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    English Domestic Season 2025

    Talking of second XI cricket, is there a county second team Michael Finan hasn't yet played for? Not sure if it's just the cameras but there are some very green pitches in evidence today.
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    Saif Zaib is averaging 60 with the bat and 8 with the ball this season. Probably not in contention as he's seen as a batter who bowls rather than a first-line spin option.
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    Leach it is then.
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    Instances of players not made captains due to non cricketing reasons

    The "non cricketing reason" why Warne was never Aus captain was that he was banned for drug use and had dubious dealings with bookies.

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