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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    Why does it devalue Test cricket any more than the MCC Universities sides devalue first-class cricket? This was the last tour arranged under the old regime. Now, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe will be playing far fewer Tests (as a result of this decision, we don't have to go to Zimbabwe for ages), so...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    The difficulty isn't with taking away from India v Pakistan. It's with upsetting the accepted scale of values. Getting a Test hundred is supposed to be a big thing for a player: it goes on the record, it can't be ignored, if someone says you're a crap batsman, you can point to your Test ton...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    If we can't discover a better spinner than Batty in the next 4-5 years, then things really are grim on the spin front. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    It's bloody irritating when you check your scorecard database to make sure you get the details right and it tells you lies. I'd thought that Gus had hung around longer too, but I shall now have to send an erratum to TAStats. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    You don't know much about Australian crowds, then, or they've got decidedly more one-eyed in ten years. On 2nd January 1995, England were two down in the series after two games and had looked pretty dismal scratching their way to 198-7 on the first day of the Third Test. As Darren Gough...
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    Do you know that!

    This definition makes it considerably easier to justify the use of career averages as weighty evidence in an argument. And it certainly makes for open and shut cases. The difficulty I have with this approach is that I've never seen an average come out to bat when a team was in trouble or take a...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    Let me take you back a few years. Specifically to 1999 and the utterly abject performance England put up against New Zealand to become officially the worst team in the world. I turned up to watch the England-Zimbabwe Test at Lord's in 2000 with some foreboding: although I thought we were strong...
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    Ashes - memories

    He got the idea of charging Warne from Warne himself. Warne had been making remarks along the lines of "Go on, hit me, you know you want to" for some time, and in the end Ramprakash succumbed to temptation. Which is what makes Warne such a great bowler. Getting caught in such an obvious trap...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    Since you always claim to know what you are talking about, you will be able to tell us how often you have watched Sussex XXII and which new players they have brought in who have demonstrated the kind of class Ian Bell showed this afternoon. However, some of us are less energetic than you and...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    It has to be one of the stupidest declarations in history from a financial point of view, as it's highly likely that at least 50% of tomorrow's ticket money will have to be refunded. And they've got to pay the casual staff for the whole day, too, which they could have avoided if they'd been able...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    What a disgraceful comment. Michael Atherton is intelligent, articulate, has a sense of humour and some fairly interesting thoughts on cricket, whereas Alec Stewart is a Chelsea supporter and one of the most boring people in the universe. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    Given the loyalty of the selectors and their general intent to give people a "good run" (whatever that actually means for a backup spinner), under what circumstances do you see Batty being given the elbow for non-performance unless he plays? To my way of thinking, the sooner he is exposed as a...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    Looking at averages again, eh? The point is when Thorpe scored the runs. Every time he made a substantial score, England were in a hole when he came in. On the occasions when the position was relatively sound, he didn't score many. He doesn't always come off when England are in trouble, but he...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    I see we're pretty much in agreement re the Thorpe/Pietersen thing, although not quite. I don't think it's quite who's going to make the most runs at number five, but who will score the most runs when they're most needed at five. I would like a rock in the middle order: with Bell as yet...
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    Ashes - memories

    Let's see now. There was wondering who this fellow Willis was when he went on the 70-71 tour, and Boycott averaging 94 as we won 2-0. I think that remains the best Ashes win of my "career". Bob Massie at Lord's and Underwood at Headingley in 1972. Denness dropping himself in 74-75. Lillian...
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    *Official* Pakistan in the West Indies

    Has anyone got any idea why Pedro Collins hasn't been picked for the Test? And, by the looks of things, WI seem to be preparing to bat Bravo at six and pick four specialist bowlers, although I suppose they may be thinking of moving Wavell HInds down the order. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    I suppose this is reminiscent of our semantic disagreement over KP and how much he needs to "improve". What can be said for definite about Tremlett v Jones is that Tremlett does not do what Jones does better than Jones does. Furthermore, England are not so desperate to have Tremlett in the team...
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    The England development squad

    Answer these questions, grasshopper, and enlightenment will dawn: How many games has Croft played for Glam, and how many has Giles played for Warks? How many wickets has Croft taken for Glam, and how many has Giles taken for Warks? How often has Croft captained Glam, and how often has Giles...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    Not that I've got any examples in mind, but I'd have thought it possible that an opening batsman could be weakish against spin, or, like Alec Stewart, unable to play it coherently until he's been in for a couple of hours and got 50 on the board. But you have to admire the ingenuity of it all...
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    Do you know that!

    It isn't being found out when you have to change your action radically and can no longer swing the ball both ways (1980), and it isn't being found out when subsequently you find that your back won't let you put enough effort to swing it more than the occasional tad in the one direction you have...

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