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    *Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

    In terms of its contribution to the match, I think that's probably McGrath's best-ever innings. It's a pity he hasn't done this sort of thing as often in his career as his early talent suggested would happen. Still we seem to be doing pretty well under Craig White's leadership. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    Look, I know the England batsmen are in pretty poor form, but there's no need to be that pessimistic about them. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    No, they have two: Habitual Basher and Mohammed Ashtrayful. I'm not convinced that Javed Omer is a Test-class batsman, even though he did better against a student side than Worcestershire did. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    For all the good it will do them, which isn't a lot. The pitches at Lord's so far this year appear to have been laid by road-builders. Just about every top-order batsman who hasn't got a ton has given his wicket away. Cheers, Mike
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    *Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

    Stupendous catch by Scott, though. Cheers, Mike
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    Strongest grade competition in the world?

    I have as much fun as anyone taking the pee out of Twohundredawicket. But the fact is that he has been a pretty successful first-class bowler, and on Sydney pitches which are conducive to leggies, it shouldn't be too surprising that he does pretty well at that standard of competition. The...
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    *Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

    I have made a discovery. There is a worse wicketkeeper than Jamie Pipe. Adshead of Glos. Truly hopeless. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    Which had reduced the top order to 130-7, with KP 600 getting a measly 1. I'll bet Warney's going to be unbearable for the next few days. Cheers, Mike
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    WOW - First ever?

    I didn't read it quite that way. I thought it more one of those "Ah, if only" pieces in which someone's early promise is revived as a golden memory and which invariably makes the player in question out to have been about four times as good as he was and accuses the selectors of the time of being...
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    What is the Best Cricket Book you've Ever Read?

    Some other books well worth reading: A Social History of English Cricket - Derek Birley - an absolute must-read A Corner of a Foreign Field - Ramachandra Guha, not quite as successful as Birley on Indian cricket Anything by AA Thomson, Ian Peebles, Gideon Haigh, David Foot, Alan Gibson, Alan...
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    *Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

    http://tinyurl.com/b89g4 It's Keith Piper, allegedly. Cheers, Mike
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    *Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

    Loye is an example of what happens when a promising young player doesn't get picked quickly. People register his name as a promising young player, and keep referring to him as one until England pick him. Which means that after ten years have gone by, he's still called a promising young player...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    It is demonstrable nonsense that Vettori in 2004 was at least Giles's equal. They were on view in a series head-to-head, and it was quite apparent that Giles was a league above Vettori. I know that Vettori used to be a great deal better - such as on his previous tour of England, but the...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    Everyone's stats have been distorted by a good series against some poor batsmen, if you really want to be picky about it. But consider how you would be viewing Giles if he didn't have all the historical baggage. Consider that he was obviously working on and getting used to a newish action on...
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    The England development squad

    Much though I hate to agree with Richard, I think Johnson had every chance of being a good Test bowler. I've thought so ever since I watched him giving Lara lots of problems in 1994 (when he was in the middle of his run of centuries - he was very lucky to escape during the f-c game, and in the...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    Here is a list of slow bowlers who have bowled more than 80 overs in Tests in the last 12 months (excluding matches involving the Bangles and Zims): Bowler W Ave SR Kartik 14 21.43 55.50 Gayle 18 24.89 65.78 Harbhajan 44 25.98 55.82 Jayasuriya 12 26.17...
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    ***Official*** South Africa v West Indies

    I'm not quite sure why, since I thought the idea was to finger relatively poor players who had got triple tons. Bob Cowper was anything but a poor player. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** South Africa v West Indies

    It is also the only time the world record individual score has been broken against a full-strength Test class attack on something other than a shirtfront. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** South Africa v West Indies

    I'm afraid that this defence of Sandham simply doesn't work. He actually played 10 Test before the Saga Holidays tour to WI in 1929-30, including an entire series in South Africa. He managed to average a princely 19.13 in those Tests, and he wasn't the reserve for H&S after 1925, since the...
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    ***Official*** South Africa v West Indies

    Gayle - the worst player ever to make a Test triple century? I see. What would your reasoning be for suggesting that Gayle is a worse player than Sandham? Cheers, Mike

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