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    ***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

    An NZ journalist by the name of Dylan Cleaver is mightily embarrassed this morning. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

    I know there are people who attempt tp produce ratings of the all-time greatest ODI innings. I wonder where Ashraful's effort today ranks. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

    Of course, you do comprehend the real significance of this game. When the wheels come off the England bus and we lose to the Bangles as well, it will be confirmation of their improvement and not the cause for wild hilarity. But as it is, the situation calls for three words. Tee. Hee. Hee...
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    The Ashes are coming home!

    Butcher didn't do particularly well when he toured India. The reason that Pietersen shot up the pecking order in terms of England hopefuls was that he was the only batsman to succeed on the Academy/A-Team tour of India, on which he made mincemeat of the Indian spin bowlers. Yet you consider that...
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    Ashes - memories

    Ramprakash is an excellent batsman. (So is Graeme Hick, for that matter). And Ramprakash's batting exudes class. Anyone who's watched him take international bowlers apart in county cricket knows that. That is why they kept picking him, and why more argument and debate was had over him in...
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    Cricket's Greatest Characters XI

    He has. He committed suicide when his son David was sacked by Surrey. Strangely, or perhaps not, it hasn't affected his "drumming". Cheers, Mike
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    Cricket's Greatest Characters XI

    Dear oh dear, I feel old. First I take my teenage stepkids to Old Trafford and realise that I saw REM do some of those same songs years before they were even born, and now there's a thread about crowd-pleasing characters and no-one has mentioned Derek Randall. It's the end of the world as we...
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    ***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

    You're certaily not alone. It's a very common solecism. Perhaps caused by the fact that in some cases, it could be seen to be equivalent to raising the question, even though that's actually a consequence. "Tendulkar is a better batsman than Lara" "Why?" "Because he has a higher average"...
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    ***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

    On the evidence I've seen, which is the Tests as well as this one-dayer, Bashar would be regarded as a useful asset by most counties or States, Javed Belim is a plodder who is wholly unsuited to one-day cricket and would get into sides in need of a boring opener to do some crease occupation, and...
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    ***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

    An event cannot beg a question. Only an argument can beg one. Literally it means that the argument relies on an appeal to the origin or principle, or assumes that something is true even though most people would have thought that it was the point actually at issue. "Jones is now the wrong...
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    ***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

    It doesn't beg the question, since it is not an example of petitio principi, although it certainly raises it. Given that Fletcher was briefing as recently as last week that it had taken Gilchrist ages to settle down as an opener (this isn't actually true, by the way), thus indicating that JOnes...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    In terms of touring Australian teams losing warm-up games, that's happened before with no noticeable effect on the Test series. My take on these games is not that they are any reflection on the quality of the Australians (although they are obviously a bit rusty), but that they show something...
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    Best current international captain

    This issue has a fairly irritating history. It all blew up over the penalties imposed by Mike Denness in his capacity as match referee after the Port Elizabeth Test when India were there. The outcome of that was that a recognised code of conduct with fixed penalties for different levels of...
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    The Ashes are coming home!

    I've great sympathy for Butch. His Test career has effectively ended not through any fault of his own but by getting injured and seeing the replacements doing too well. The train is going to leave without him. What is encouragng is that we can leave someone with his recent record out and not...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    My suspicion is that it depends how well 1-3 go. They'll be looking to make sure that Flintoff and Pietersen get enough time to bat, so whether Strauss comes in at four depends on whether they want to wait yet longer to get the heavy artillery out. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    Aren't you the bloke who was saying that 20-20 was incredibly simple and one-dimensional, which tends to imply that captaincy is pretty simple too? Seems to me like you're now arguing about tactical points, and how they could have done better. So perhaps it's not as simple as it looks. You are...
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    The demise of the spinner...

    There are ways, actually, by laboriously combing through accounts of people who saw both Kortright and Gregory/Macdonald, and then both G/M and Larwood, and so on. And I'd also point out that Kortright has nothing to do with the Twenties, since his heyday was around the turn of the century. But...
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    The demise of the spinner...

    I admit to rather siding with Richard on the subject of MacGill, although I wouldn't go as far as to say he wasn't Test class. But I wouldn't say he was any great shakes as a Test bowler, and would point out that he rarely takes top order wickets any more. (I discount his achievements against...
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    A prediction !!

    Thanks. He indeed sounds interesting. I'd guess that he has taken a number of wickets from sheer novelty value so far, and that those will dry up as time goes on. (I'm put in mind of how Malinga took a lot of wickets in the First Test against NZ when they'd never seen him before but not many in...
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    Botham vs Flintoff

    Except that they didn't. True, we got seriously hammered by WI, but we went to India and won handsomely, we won the Ashes convincingly in 85 and less convincingly again in 86-7, and Botham didn't really have all that much to do with the winning of any of them. England didn't really start to...

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