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  1. HeathDavisSpeed

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I mean, it could work - I just want to know more. I just question why an overseas consortium would be interested in Colchester. The highest we've ever been was the Championship - briefly. Nowhere near the household awareness or crowds that Portsmouth achieve.
  2. HeathDavisSpeed

    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    Well, that isn’t the question posed in the OP. But if you can improve your tail by 50 runs, that would be worth more than 1-2 extra catches. But if you had a slip cordon equivalent to Mullally/Giddens/Tufnell, I’d argue you’d be looking at taking zero slip catches! In reality, no professional...
  3. HeathDavisSpeed

    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    Then I don’t think that’s a fair comparison at all. I’m talking marginal improvements in one slip fielder and you’re talking 50 extra runs per innings from the tail. That’s not a reasonable comparison. My comparison was more based around likely team selections as I previously outlined - do you...
  4. HeathDavisSpeed

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Colchester United Chairman Robbie Cowling has today confirmed that he is in advanced discussions to sell the football club to a United States based consortium, Lightwell Sports Group, led by businessman Tim Foley. Cowling, who has owned Colchester United since August 2006, stated: “After nearly...
  5. HeathDavisSpeed

    *Official* Bangladesh A v New Zealand A

    D Phillips played in Game One. One of the copious ducks.
  6. HeathDavisSpeed

    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    50 runs per innings is a big gain on a tail. Even that Giddens/Mullally/Tufnell one you'd be looking at turning batting averages of ~8 to batting averages of more than ~20 each.
  7. HeathDavisSpeed

    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    Again, I disagree. A team (usually - declaration shenanigans and errors notwithstanding) has to take 20 wickets. If you're relying on your #8 to contribute important runs, I think you've probably not got the batsmen you need and therefore the additional batting of the #8 is a deliberate balance...
  8. HeathDavisSpeed

    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    I don't disagree with that - a 5th bowler definitely helps with workload and risk management and (without citing any examples off the top of my head) I'm sure I remember some teams coming a cropper with only the 4 bowlers and overloading the batting. However, I'm not sure that this question is...
  9. HeathDavisSpeed

    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    Given NZ’s shambolic slip fielding in recent times and how bloody frustrating it was for your front line bowlers to be creating opportunities only for the big bucket hands of Daryl Mitchell to spring a leak, I’d put slip fielding first. Perhaps you don’t need that fifth bowler all that much if...
  10. HeathDavisSpeed

    English Domestic Season 2025

    Eesh. Shouldn't have been losing that. Cox getting injured meant we set a few less than ideal, but we should have had enough runs in the bank when they were 6 down with 100+ required overnight. I don't think Harmer is quite what he was and perhaps he might have been a tad overbowled, but Essex...
  11. HeathDavisSpeed

    *Official* Bangladesh A v New Zealand A

    What do parallel numbers tell us about Jeet Raval though?
  12. HeathDavisSpeed

    English Domestic Season 2025

    Collapse seems to have been sparked by Cox’s injury - which doesn’t sound good on first glance. Not having great luck with injuries is Cox and if he’s out for a while, those runs will be hard to replace for Essex.
  13. HeathDavisSpeed

    English Domestic Season 2025

    A great day's play for Essex against Somerset. But if the pitch is flattening out, they're gonna need at least another 100 runs. Losing Critchley at the end of the day wasn't great.
  14. HeathDavisSpeed

    Who is the most durable pacer of all time?

    Also, here's a guy with over 150,000 FC deliveries. Right-arm mediums. https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/alex-kennedy-15858 Can't say I've heard of the guy before, but crikey he put in a decent shift in his career!
  15. HeathDavisSpeed

    Who is the most durable pacer of all time?

    Played nearly 200 more FC matches than Bedser, but only 80 odd more than Trueman. Probably a fair bit underrated old Barnacle. Averaged a tick below 30 with the bat in Test cricket but also a tick below 30 with the ball.
  16. HeathDavisSpeed

    Who is the most durable pacer of all time?

    Trevor Bailey bowled 116,659 deliveries at slightly more than a trundle and then spent most of the rest of his non-bowling time clogging up an end with the bat. Endurance was a different beast back then.
  17. HeathDavisSpeed

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I'm not sure that 1-2 or 1-1 count as 'rinsed' even if Man Utd had a red card there. 3-0 at home in European semi-final is a pretty bad outcome, aye. Anyway, good on Tottenham to leave Bodo with a decent opportunity to turn that over in the 2nd leg. It could be like the League Cup semi-final...
  18. HeathDavisSpeed

    England players and selection discussion thread

    Paul Walter and bring back Will Jefferson.
  19. HeathDavisSpeed

    England players and selection discussion thread

    I like this post so much this deserves at least two :wub:s
  20. HeathDavisSpeed

    All-Time Ireland XIs - (Not) A re-run

    Paul Stirling to beef up the batting or Stuart Thompson to beef up the bowling. Dockrell not found IMO. Two spinners particularly unnecessary in home conditions, particularly when one hasn't done anything with the red ball. -1 Dockrell.

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