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    *Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

    Oh yes he can. He missed two stumpings yesterday with the batsman three yards out on each occasion. And the catch he took off Styris was a regulation sitter, but he contrived to need three attempts to hold it. But yes, I did say to my companions at the time "I haven't seen keeping as bad as...
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    *Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

    Is Jamie Pipe the worst wicketkeeper in England? I ask because I went to the Middx v Worcs game yesterday and he was truly terrible, so I wondered if this was a permanent feature of his game or just something he does on Sundays. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    That's a reasonable expectation, except for the fact that Giles seems to be taking quite a few wickets in these conditions. Cheers, Mike
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    Ashes XI

    You said "there are better allrounders". That's plural. Name another one. Indeed it is. Flintoff was picked years before he was any good. Let's look, though, at their respective records in Test cricket for the last two years - which might be a better indication of how good the players are...
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    Ashes XI

    Such as? (And don't give me a load of nonsense about Kallis, who may well be a fantastic batsman but hasn't averaged under 40 with the ball for a series against a proper side (ie not Bangladesh or Zimbabwe) for years and is no more than a trundler - whatever he might have been in 1998.)...
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    England Second XI

    Newman looks to be a reasonable bet on the basis of last season's form, but he'll need to reproduce it to stave off the fast-rising Cook - whose only fault at present is that he doesn't yet have the skill to place his shots out of reach of fielders. It was instructive to watch him and Andy...
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    Langeveldt's forfeit

    If England lose the Ashes 4-1 or 5-0 I shall um er hmmm ah um be very disappointed. Cheers, Mike
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    England Second XI

    I'd move Vaughan to 3 and have Pietersen at 4. And I'd have Prior at 7. Jefferson Newman Butcher Bell Collingwood Clarke G Jones G Swann Tremlett Mahmood Anderson I'd expect Cook to overtake Newman before the season's out, though. Cheers, Mike
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    I think that you meant to say "with absolute certainty", because what you've actually written makes no sense at all. So, how many other professions do you know where the job consists of making hundreds of decisions a day where the professional is not generally capable of making those decisions...
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    No. That title has been awarded to Fred Tate in perpetuity. Cheers, Mike
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    I don't see the rush either. Every run makes the follow-on target bigger, and we should be aiming to enforce it on this occasion. Cheers, Mike
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    And one in WI. Of course, he's only had the one winter away since he was recognised to have stopped being idiotic as a batsman. Cheers, Mike
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    Andrew Strauss - Not a bad start, chap.

    His ending his career with a 60+ average could only have been perfectly conceivable to someone who simply reads scorecards and doesn't watch cricket. Watching the English bowlers sling down rubbish tailored to his few strengths and attacking none of his obvious weaknesses while he compiled 259...
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    True enough, but it's a bit churlish to deny that Steyn looks like quite a prospect, and in the absence of the obviously more dangerous Langeveldt he's not a bad pick. I think he's got a face like a rat, though. Cheers, Mike
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    Andrew Strauss - Not a bad start, chap.

    Tee hee hee. Next: Ashish Nehra to be replaced as potential next-best-after-Wasim-Akram. Graeme Smith shows more potential to be the next-best-after-Vinod-Kambli. Cheers, Mike
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    I think there were a few people saying that about Harmison during the last Eng-SA series. Cheers, Mike
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    As someone who has professed himself mortally afraid that Key will cement himself as England's #3, I feel I should point out that I think he's a good player - once he gets to 30 or 40. He's one of the few players to whom Richard's first-chance average thing seems very applicable to me, as he...
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    Jones has been saying over the last few months that he's gradually getting the strength and confidence back to bowl longer spells, which suggests that part of his appearing underbowled is that there are limits which we know not of. Though I would agree that Vaughan has seemed to me rather too...
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    Best Wicket keeper ever

    Oh, please do. I doubt they are better than mine, though, since I have had long conversations with people who actually played first-class and Test cricket in the pre-60s era, as well as a fairly voluminous library. Your increasingly shrill statements about how players of the past wouldn't...
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    But you will, Oscar, you will. I spouted as much dogmatic but ill-informed nonsense as you do when I was your age, which was a few years before you were born. It took me until I was about 35 to realise how little I actually knew about the game, and only then could I begin to reach the...

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