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    The England development squad

    They have played in the same competition, but not necessarily under the same circumstances. There's some truth in b) although it's nowhere near a full explanation. Sophia Gardens isn't a turning track, but Edgbaston is even less of one. However, Sophia Gardens has a tendency to be dead and...
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    Just a thought - answer without emotions !

    It wasn't exactly a misunderstanding, because I didn't quite think you were saying the exact opposite. I admit to rhapsodizing, but I wasn't actually trying to disagree with *you*, but those who think it unfair that one *should* take the record-breaking into account even though the actual...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    I am indeed Mike Holmans, but I only get into uksc via crosspost, as I'm basically an rsc regular and uksc has far too much of the utterly revolting Robert Henderson in it. Cheers, Mike
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    Which side has the 2nd best bowling attack behind Australia

    I would have thought that would have a great deal to do with the quality of overseas player you get. Your main catchment is going to be the English, as most other places have got their own domestic season going on, and the only ones who will bother to come over for the tiny amounts of money on...
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    Just a thought - answer without emotions !

    What on earth is unfair about it? What are people going to be saying about him in fifty years time? "Lara, the bloke who broke the individual Test scoring record twice, the first to 500 in f-c cricket and the first to 400 in Tests, and a generally amazing batsman," that's what. Those world...
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    Which side has the 2nd best bowling attack behind Australia

    So far, so good. However, this is an assumption without supporting evidence. There is very little reason to suppose that the standard of Pura Cup cricket, with its complete reliance on Australian players, is now (as opposed to 10-15 years ago) markedly better than the standard of county...
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    Which side has the 2nd best bowling attack behind Australia

    I know Tait's excellent because he's performed brilliantly in county cricket. In his two matches for Durham last year he returned 12-0-113-0 and 6-0-63-0. How can you possibly doubt the quality of a bowler who takes no wickets and goes for ten an over when opening the bowling in first-class...
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    The England development squad

    Swann has not been overlooked at all. Having blotted his copybook very badly indeed on the 1999-00 tour of SA, he was parked until evidence began to build that he had decided to take his head out of his backside and grow up. As occasionally happens with 20-y-os, it took him a few years to...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    As a general rule of thumb, if Botham fulminates against the England selectors, it is 99.9% certain that they have made the correct decision. In fact, the more vociferously Botham rants about any subject, the more certain it is that rational lifeforms should take precisely the opposite view...
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    The England development squad

    If you're going to tell jokes, at least make them credible or funny. This one is neither, as Powell isn't an opening batsman and isn't useless enough for the suggestion to be otherwise hilarious. Cheers, Mike
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    The England development squad

    1 Cook, Jefferson, Key, Newman 2 Swann, Brown (although the selectors have a strange fetish about Batty) Cook in particular looks as though he's going to be rather frustrated having to wait for Strauss and Tresco to retire before he gets the regular Test spot he would undoubtedly get sooner...
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    Mickey Arthur?

    Well, yes and no. It's not completely useless, because it gives you some idea of whether the team which loses is good but not quite as good as the winners or whether they are basically rubbish. Naturally I'm biased, but a South African whose opinion I've long respected told me that he thought...
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    Mickey Arthur?

    Actually, his most recent credentials were coaching Queensland to winning the Shield. And his so-called failure with Middlesex was more to do with Middlesex's squad than with Buchanan. What the young and inexperienced Middlesex players needed was a coach who could explain what the three poles...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    I think he simply meant that Flintoff is currently a devastating all-rounder - as Yardy's figures would seem to indicate. One f-c performance which rather outstrips Yardy's was George Giffen's for South Australia v Victoria at Adelaide in 1891-92. He scored 271 and had bowling figures of 9-96...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    Judging by the enthusiastic tone of Mike Selvey's report, I'm very much inclined to side with Kasper on this one. It may well be years before he gets a Test berth and starts to succeed at that level, but some teenagers just exude quality so that you know they will be top players in the end...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    re Bevan That's funny. Most official statistics show that he actually scored 6 centuries in his relevant career. But no, he didn't score three in a series and then get left out of the Test team. I realised later that a far more likely candidate was Gilchrist, but he didn't manage three...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    Michael Bevan? Cheers, Mike
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    *Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

    Of whom Peploe was 12th man. Pretty mediocre batting performance, for which I mostly blame Ed Smith, who was way too slow. The one bright spot was Strauss's innings, as he looked in fine form. He was out to a one-day gamble shot, the dab towards third man played on the move in search of a quick...
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    The England development squad

    You seem to be ignoring the possibility that it was fitness management which has allowed him to play as many games as he has. 25 years ago, his back injury would probably have ended his career by 1997. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    Yes, Hick has said that he was totally unprepared for the venom with which some of the press turned on him when he wasn't the second Bradman, and it's not hard to see how that would have fatally wounded an essentially kind and shy man. If KP turns up in England's Test team and fails to start...

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