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    Answering the critics

    Comparisons .......if not a little mischievious. After 5 Tests, your declared favourite player, Mr. Streak, had only two more wickets, at the very slightly better strike rate of 73.4 :D
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    Answering the critics

    You have a point Admittedly, you have a point. The strike rate isn't (and in First Class Cricket never has been) very good. Even in his most productive season in the Championship (1999) his 64 wickets came at a strike rate of 53, which isn't earth shattering. One could argue that the degree...
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    Answering the critics

    Grow up! Such peurile suggestions just make you look silly! No umpire, however poor, is going to allow 24 consecutive, unstrikable deliveries! And Harmison ended the morning session with figures of 10 overs, 5 maidens, 0 for 22. Why not just admit that you, like many others, have been hasty...
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    Answering the critics

    I'd just like to offer up two snippets in response to recent criticisms of two players. NAM McLean has started this morning (on the best batting track in the country) with an opening burst of 4 overs, 3 maidens, 2 for 2. Meanwhile the "wayward" and allegedly "rubbish" Harmison has opened up...
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    England or Somerset?

    Because he was cheap! And available for the whole season. And if he keeps up the form he's shown so far NAM McLean 4m 142o 29m 462r 17w 27.17ave 5-87best 1x5WI - 50.1sr 3.25ec SOMERSET (Currently second in the first class averages) I for one will be applauding the...
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    Surrey in the C&G 4th Round

    Fourth Round There's a day clear after the end of the first test against Zim, and a full week clear before the start of the second, so hopefully this won't happen. I'd always been led to believe that unless a player was actually injured, ECB policy was to make contracted players available for...
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    Michael Vaughan - England ODI Captain

    The Namibia "almost-c**k-up"..... .......certainly didn't do him any favours, I agree. Vaughan's first class average is pretty respectable (37odd) and his Test average is of course much higher (50). A number of England's best players of the last twenty years had higher Test than FC averages...
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    Michael Vaughan - England ODI Captain

    Not sure about this one! Many people have commented on Vaughan's poor ODI record to date when discussing his elevation to the captaincy. However, this may not be a fair criticism as many of his early caps came at five and six in the order when he clearly prefers opening/first wicket down. So I...
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    Surrey in the C&G 4th Round

    Everybody else....... .............(including most significantly the ECB) seems to think it's Surrey at Taunton in round four. We'll still need at least a couple of morale-boosting wins before we take them on, though!
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    Derby

    Lead achieved.... ....with Burns, Tres and Buzz showing what we've been missing so far. 40+ overs left in the day (weather permitting). Here's to a lead of 150 by the close, no more wickets down, a quick flash in the morning and plenty of time to bowl them out again!
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    2 Overseas Players - Do you Agree??

    Re: Re: How about some optimism!?!? I'm not really interested in his previous efforts for Hampshire, or the fact that he may not be quite international class. For me his record for Natal, and a five-fer in his first championship game for us are more than enough for me to give him the...
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    2 Overseas Players - Do you Agree??

    How about some optimism!?!? He might yet prove to be something very special.
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    Glamorgan drop merger hint

    From the BBC Sport website:- Glamorgan coach John Derrick says financial pressures could force the Welsh county to consider a cross-border merger. Record losses last year and funding cutbacks from the England and Wales Cricket Board have forced membership prices to nearly double and...
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    2 Overseas Players - Do you Agree??

    Point of information In fairness to James Bryant, he's here on a British passport, has British parents, and has stated his intention to qualify for and hopefully play for England. All that at a time when there's every good chance he might stand a better chance of getting a game in South...
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    Who Will Start For Somerset?

    Make that four..... .....cheap student wickets! Including a hat trick!
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    Who Will Start For Somerset?

    Francis Looks a definite now, after three cheap student wickets. I bet he particularly enjoyed the caught and bowled off his little brother!
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    Who will Open at Bristol??

    Turner..... .....is keeping in the Loughborough second innings.
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    Who will Open at Bristol??

    Turner "injured"? Was this definitely a real injury? As it came immediately after lunch, I'd assumed it was a run-of-the-mill retirement in a friendly to give Blackie a bit of a dash with the bat. I'm pretty sure Cric-Info still record such things as "retired hurt". As to the openers, I...
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    Who Will Start For Somerset?

    Modifications! Might be forced to admit that at least one spot is probably wrong. From what's been seen so far, and from Shiner's comments reported on Grockle's.com, it looks like Francis may well start ahead of either Bully or Jonah. Also, I still reckon he'll start, but Laraman could do with...
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    Who Will Start For Somerset?

    Think I read somewhere that Bryant prefers #3, and I get the feeling he's seen as a "Great White Hope" and will get whatever he wants, at least to start with. Cox spent a lot of the season for TAS at #4, so I reckon that's a sign. I can't imagine Laraman coming unless he felt reasonably sure...

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