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  1. JohnnyA

    Best 'Keeper In T' World (nothing to do with batting ability)

    Shame about Foster ... not too late I hope. I tend to look for talent and character in a player, and I'm sure I saw a glimmer of something there. County stats are completely false (Ed Smith anyone), so I don't care who has the better county batting records. His keeping was good enough, and I'm...
  2. JohnnyA

    *Official* England in Sri Lanka

    I think it's unfair to say England Sri Lanka matches have been boring. I have some great memories of recent matches: the series in SL last time was excellent, the one-off match at the Oval was a classic (Jayasuria double Ton & Murali's demon bowling). I can't wait to see Murali weave his magic...
  3. JohnnyA

    **Official** 'My Current World XI' Thread

    Well this is the team I'd like to see, and the game I'd like to see: 1. Michael Slater 2. Alec Stewart 3. Robin Smith 4. Darly Cullinan 5. Mike Gatting 6. Ed Smith 7. Steve Rhodes 8. Courtney Walsh 9. Glenn McGrath 10. Phill Tufnell 11. Devon Malcolm Oh yeah and the opposition team: 1. Anyone...
  4. JohnnyA

    Best 'Keeper In T' World (nothing to do with batting ability)

    Then why is he being touted so much? Standing back from the stumps can't be that difficult. What did Foster do to get jumped in the queue? He looked lilke a ballsy batter to me, and he did a consistent job behind the stumps. And I've NEVER seen any English spinner with raging turn in the last...
  5. JohnnyA

    Style!!

    Here's another name form the recent past: Daryl Cullinan (excluding the innings verse Warney ... ahem). A very stylish player of both seam and finger spin. I always liked watching him bat.
  6. JohnnyA

    Style!!

    Even Chanderpaul ;)
  7. JohnnyA

    **Official** 'My Current World XI' Thread

    These things are always worth doing once in a while. The various lists are sure to change. So what if it's been "done to death". 1. Haydyn 2. Vaughn 3. Ponting 4. Tendulkar 5. Lara 6. Dravid 7. Gilchrist 8. Pollock 9. Lee 10 Murali 11. Mcgrath Kallis seems to be going downhill with his...
  8. JohnnyA

    Vintage Cricket - Official Drafting Thread

    LuckyEd ... I'll be coming up with a ruling that removes the crappy batting stats from bowlers and crappy bowling stats from batters ... like a minimum requirement for the stats to count ... such as 1000 runs scored an/or an average of 15 or over. It's unfair the a crap batter like Couney Walsh...
  9. JohnnyA

    Vintage Cricket Draft Anyone?

    Your right, it is only a bit of fun ... but that doesn't mean we should be competitive :) That adds to the enjoyment. I haven't given that much thought either to be fair ... the first few rounds are usually pretty easy in this type of thing. But I'm establishing a "real time" league using only...
  10. JohnnyA

    Vintage Cricket Draft Anyone?

    Similar principles, that was the point.
  11. JohnnyA

    Style!!

    Text book is not necessarily beautiful though. But he must have been a joy to behold :) Some other names from the modern era: Stewie Azzaruhdin (wrong spelling for sure :)) I aggree with LuckyEd that Boycott was a bit strange.
  12. JohnnyA

    Style!!

    10 minutes of Beethoven is better than a lifetime of Rap and R&B drivel (OK pompous and unrepresentative example ... but what the hey ... the point is made :)) I still rank the innings he played at Lords about 10 years ago as the most beautiful innings I've ever seen. 111 runs of sheer class...
  13. JohnnyA

    Style!!

    Carl Hooper ... no question of doubt in my mind. I never saw a lot of those guys for an extended period. If I had to rank a top 3 it would be: 1. Hooper (by a long way in my book ... divine batting) 2. Waugh (classy and beautiful) 3. Gower (see Waugh)
  14. JohnnyA

    Vintage Cricket Draft Anyone?

    I agree MW ... it is the most important position on the field. But in terms over the overall team setup, the WK has to also have the ability to balance the teams batting, and score runs. You can maybe afford a defensive cather against Bangledesh or Zimbabwe, but against the stronger nations, you...
  15. JohnnyA

    Vintage Cricket Draft Anyone?

    What exactly is your problem?
  16. JohnnyA

    Best 'Keeper In T' World (nothing to do with batting ability)

    Jacky was WAAAAYYYY overratted. I've watched practically every test series since Austrailia in 1989. He played his whole career in that time. He wasn't very good up at the stumps. He dropped lots of catches he should have took, especially to the spinners. He stood too far back behind the...
  17. JohnnyA

    Best 'Keeper In T' World (nothing to do with batting ability)

    What does that mean? For your information I NEVER watch the 1 day stuff. It bores the hell out of me.
  18. JohnnyA

    Vintage Cricket - Official Drafting Thread

    Nice 4th round pick with Miandad. Slats UP next Lucky Ed padding up
  19. JohnnyA

    Best 'Keeper In T' World (nothing to do with batting ability)

    NP ... I was thinking of starting my own "BRING BACK ALEC STEWART" thread. It's pretty clear to everyone he wanted to keep playing indefintely. I don't care if Chris Read can do sommersaults. I want to see lot's of 50's and 100's from my WK. To paraphrase myself, a WK should be able to: catch...
  20. JohnnyA

    Vintage Cricket Draft Anyone?

    For our purposes though, keepers are just batters who have put on the gloves a requiste number of times. As for pure keeping ... I'd like to see a few of those guys keep to a top class spinner. Keeping is over-rated IMHO. It shouldn't really be that difficult catching the ball with those huge...

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