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  1. McKanga

    Geraint Jones moves on

    Pretty much as I thought. And yet a number of Geraint boosters/England supporters here seem to confuse club and County cricket when looking at Jones' situation in Australia. He is not playing top level cricket now he's back home.
  2. McKanga

    SixthTest anyone?

    I'd never heard of him but Cricinfo put me right. Plays with Hampshire, isn't that Warney's team? He's a passionate Aussie Rules follower too, played U19s for St Kilda and if he'd made the senior team would never have gone on with cricket.
  3. McKanga

    SixthTest anyone?

    Mother Australia???? We prefer the term Oz. 8-) What rugby or rugby league do is of little interest outside QLD/NSW. The rest of us follow Australian Rules football in the AFL or local leagues and as it isn't a game played outside Australia there is none of the angst of who can/can't be...
  4. McKanga

    Player Mail

    :laugh:
  5. McKanga

    The most disgraceful commentary I have ever heard

    I completely acknowledge that after the recent Adelaide Test our Aussie commentators could barely bother with finding virtues in England's efforts. By the second innings of the Melbourne game they no longer tried. The sad part for England is that the BBC staff were little different.
  6. McKanga

    SixthTest anyone?

    Thanks. I like this site. I learn interesting things every day, and in this case not even directly about cricket. My wife and I lived in Scotland for just under two years in the late 80s and in pre-cable days (for scrimping Aussies anyway) you didn't even hear much about English soccer, let...
  7. McKanga

    Geraint Jones moves on

    Well educate me then, I want less facileness in my life. Living in Australia would be expensive for a Papua New Guinean born and Australian raised Welshman now resident in England. His family raised him in Toowoomba which is a hell of a long way from Brisbane so there'll be no drifting back to...
  8. McKanga

    Geraint Jones moves on

    Am I misunderstanding something? Is grade cricket and County Cricket the same thing in England. If so what do you call your local club cricket?
  9. McKanga

    Official Gibbs Ban Thread

    Oh sure. We suddenly spontaneously understood and spoke Afrikaans. London tabloids again, like the dreadful abuse Panesar was going to cop.
  10. McKanga

    SixthTest anyone?

    No, that is actually a surprise.
  11. McKanga

    SixthTest anyone?

    At the moment in Australia a cricket chirping in the back yard attracts a minimum of 15 people. My God-awful state team (the Redbacks) attracted a crowd of almost 14,000 just recently for a Twenty/20 match against NSW in 40C heat. The ACB knows the wheel will turn and one day we will have 1/4...
  12. McKanga

    Sack Fletcher!!!!

    Well I'm sorry then. Shan't go back X posts to see where I stuffed up, will take your word. I think we'd all like to see that.
  13. McKanga

    Sack Fletcher!!!!

    Sorry I didn't realise you expected a reply on that, thought it was rhetorical. But then there was no noticeable difference for me. He's an honest and capable player who has achieved slightly more in the ODI stuff. 47 n.o. batting, no wickets bowling against us. A stoic but pedestrian...
  14. McKanga

    ***Official*** Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series

    Because people like me couldn't resist saying "And so we meet again Mr Bond, Mr Bond, Mr Bond, Mr Bond, Mr Bond, Mr Bond, Mr Bond, Mr Bond, Mr Bond and Mr Bond, "
  15. McKanga

    Geraint Jones moves on

    Ta.
  16. McKanga

    Geraint Jones moves on

    I'm not sure what this all means. Do you mean County cricket? For Glamorgan? Shane Warne was saying in his recent interview with Michael Parkinson that he put on about 20k in his first stint on the County circuit. Regardless of that it is still the highest tier of English cricket, bar...
  17. McKanga

    Geraint Jones moves on

    Much as I love the idea that simply playing cricket anywhere, anyhow in Australia makes you better than playing top level English cricket it just ain't so. Grade cricket is not the top tier in Australia, or anywhere.
  18. McKanga

    Geraint Jones moves on

    Playing English County Cricket is career promoting. Explain to me where playing grade cricket in Australia helps anyone without Australian prospects.
  19. McKanga

    Geraint Jones moves on

    I'm obviously giving the wrong impression in what I say. My presumption is he would try to lift himself in skills and profile to eventually rejoin his selected national team. My analysis is that he has given up that hope and reverted to being an Aussie of British descent. He is playing social...
  20. McKanga

    Geraint Jones moves on

    Huh? I'm Australian. I live about 300m from our local club (West Torrens). My point is that grade cricket is the path to selection on your state squad for Australians. That is the equivalent to County Cricket in England. Geraint Jones is like Andrew Symonds in that he was born in England but...

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