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    Class of 2004

    I think McCullum's keeping is so awful that it will not do. Not when the team is captained, as it should be, by Shane Warne, who has captained his country as well as his State and county, mostly with good results. Missing chances off the skipper's bowling is generally held to be bad policy...
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    I don't see it as obvious that van Jaarsveld, whose nine Tests have so far yielded pretty modest results, should be retained ahead of a bloke who made a muck of his debut appearance, as have so many players in the past. Dropping guys after they made a ricket of their first Test was one of the...
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    Why Has 20Twenty Cricket Been A Success?

    As a pompous purist MCC Member, I think it ridiculous to categorise 20-20 as undemanding entertainment for an ignorant generation. I'd be happy to apply that description to the moronic nonsense of 50-over cricket, which is a really dull, really predictable form of the game ideally suited to...
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    Least Entertaining Players

    There are batsmen like Boycott, Kirsten, Kallis, Atherton and so on who mostly play(ed) slowly and carefully and don't usually get the pulse racing, but who are or were extremely capable of dismantling an attack with glorious shots if the occasion warranted it, in their view. That their view of...
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    I'd agree that Jardine's historical reputation has been tainted by seventy years of Australian whingeing, but even so, his batting was nowhere near all-time great levels. For me it has to be Hobbs. Almost nobody who saw both Hobbs and Grace regarded Grace as the better batsman, and very very...
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    Bell is in the one-day squad, and will presumably get to play - as of course will Collingwood. The question for the selectors was who would be useful to have around during the Test series, given that they were most unlikely to play. Key can have his technique worked on, whereas there isn't all...
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    No, but over quite a time. It is 32 innings since he last made a Test hundred. Even Vaughan, the other current underperformer in the top order, has made four hundreds in that time. I don't want to take anything away from what Butcher has done for England over the last 3-4 years. There was...
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    **Official** India in Bangladesh Thread

    I think "never" is too strong a word to apply to Bangladesh's admission to top-level international cricket. Otherwise you're effectively saying that nobody else can ever join the club. Bangladesh may well have been admitted too early, but that doesn't mean they should never have ever been...
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    The One's That Got Away

    Pound gets you a penny the answer's "India". There's a phalanx of Indian fans convinced that India are near-challengers to Australia, and that therefore any talk of anyone else being number two, especially England, is downright offensive. Cheers, Mike
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    The One's That Got Away

    Make that "living memory", just about. Think Gower, Greig, D'Oliveira, Cowdrey and Dexter, and you're already back to the mid-Fifties. Cheers, Mike
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    Players who performed well in limited opportunities for their country...

    'Ullo again. Let's ignore these third-rate Australians benchmark00 seems so dreadfully keen on but who don't fulfil the criteria of playing well in their limited oportunities but instead played well in a couple of their many opportunities while being pretty awful in the rest, and dig up some...
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    **Official** NatWest Challenge Thread

    I'm no Solanki fan either, but he looked a lot better in this game than he had before: if he hadn't got form, as it were, there would be no need to look askance. I'm certainly more sanguine about his chances of repeating this sort of performance than I was. Cheers, Mike
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    **Official** NatWest Challenge Thread

    Still, Solanki was awful, though, wasn't he? Once useless, always useless, that's what I say. Cheers, Mike
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    Solanki Is Back In The Odi

    How come you put a load of stuff about Chris Schofield and a Rugby League club under all of yours? Cheers, Mike
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    England Squad to Tour SA

    If it were the intention that everyone who goes to the Academy should play for England in the not-too-distant future, then we would be back to the days of playing XVIII-a-side. Clarke is 23, some 5 or 6 years from his likely peak. Mascarenhas is 28 and just reaching his. Clarke has already...
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    Solanki Is Back In The Odi

    Yeah. The C&G Final showed that he could produce the kind of stuff he's been producing all season on a big stage. If England had an ODI opening pair who were producing on a regular basis, I wouldn't see the point of bringing Solanki back. But the ODI team is a mess, no-one is truly established...
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    Who is the 3rd spinner?

    I've voted for Kumble, because I reckon he's bottom of Div 1 while Giles and Harbhajan vie for top of Div 2. Except - what has Harbhajan actually done these last two years? He has a magnificent reputation deriving from his 32 wickets against Australia a few years ago, but he can't go on dining...
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    England Squad to Tour SA

    Can you remind me what the grounds of your protest are? Nobody is saying that Clarke should be in the one-day or Test side at the moment. The selectors certainly aren't, because he's not in the squad for the pyjama cricket fest beginnning next week, nor has be been put in the Test party to tour...
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    The Name Game.

    Srinivas Venkataraghavan (India)
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    Solanki Is Back In The Odi

    You're really fond of writing players off before their careers have got underway, aren't you? Do you even accept the possibility that a player might improve, or is it your firm and unshakable view that a player will always do exactly what he did on debut - because there is very little evidence...

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