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  1. Chin Music

    2026 World Cup Qualifiers

    One of the things with WCQ is that the expanded number of teams in the finals means that it is easier to qualify sooner from what I can see. That said, doing Saudi on their own patch is clearly a very good result.
  2. Chin Music

    *Official* Emerging Nations Cricket Thread

    i remember Randiv bowling a no ball to stop Sehwag scoring a ton in an ODI years ago. I think Pollard did something similar a few years ago too.
  3. Chin Music

    2026 World Cup Qualifiers

    I thought it was a disgrace he was still getting picked two years ago, let alone now. A very slow and lethargic tempo is never going to change with him in the middle of the park and it was laughable against Andorra.
  4. Chin Music

    2026 World Cup Qualifiers

    Italy getting pumped by Norway perhaps wasn’t a total shock given the personnel Norway possess but even so their best chance of making their first World Cup since 2014 already looks very tough.
  5. Chin Music

    *Official* India tour of England 2025 General Discussion

    That's what I was getting at. Although superficially he got ok figures in the two Ashes tests that he played two years ago, he looked a lot more vulnerable and less effective in those later spells. If he wasn't getting himself into a good enough shape, that's why the England management have...
  6. Chin Music

    *Official* India tour of England 2025 General Discussion

    In fairness, Abbas is very much a horses for courses pick for Pakistan and it isn't really the pace that Robinson bowls rather than he clearly doesn't get on with a few in the England management, which I think is wrong. I do think he added something to the balance of the bowling attack prior to...
  7. Chin Music

    *Official* India tour of England 2025 General Discussion

    Can't say I'm surprised that he's out of that. I didn't think a hammy was the type of thing that would only take 3 weeks or so to see off. I hope he isn't rushed back in.
  8. Chin Music

    *Official* Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025

    Really sorry to hear about this. I was amazed on leaving the Chepauk a few months ago that you exit only through the handful of entrances and through the very narrow scanners and it took ages to get out and there was a mini-crush. There are no specific exit gates like you would have at nearly...
  9. Chin Music

    *Official* Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025

    How could he be supporting them? He would surely be a Punjab fan given his background.
  10. Chin Music

    *Official* West Indies Tour of Ireland and England- May/June 2025

    The person who hated easy runs the most was the sadly departed GP Thorpe.
  11. Chin Music

    *Official* West Indies Tour of Ireland and England- May/June 2025

    What's he done?
  12. Chin Music

    *Official* West Indies Tour of Ireland and England- May/June 2025

    Apparently to beat the traffic, the England players arrived on the Lime Bikes. For those of you not from London or other big cities that I assume offer similar hire bikes, are posh electric bikes useful for getting somewhere in a hurry around road closures.
  13. Chin Music

    England players and selection discussion thread

    I'm certainly not reading too much into that either. However, the flip side to that is that if he's not playing at Ciderbad, he doesn't get to play on the far more favourable surfaces that Leach gets to pad his stats on.
  14. Chin Music

    England players and selection discussion thread

    Shoaib Bashir: England spinner open to leaving Somerset - BBC Sport I'm pretty sure that it was said on another thread that calling Bashir's County Championship record 'modest' was very generous. Anyway, with his Somerset contract due to expire this summer, Bashir obviously needs to move. I...
  15. Chin Music

    India A Tour of England/England Lions 2 unofficial Tests

    It would be a fairly rubbish strategy. If there is a moderate amount of movement available, a fairly inexperienced Indian batting lineup will likely not deal with lateral movement too well. England will play it better with the obvious exception of a couple of upper order players.
  16. Chin Music

    *Official* WTC FINAL Australia vs South Africa 2025

    Isn't it more instructive to look at Marnus's FC record which has stayed in the mid 40s no matter what he's done? That suggests that he wasn't all that in the shield or in the County Championship and that's before the last year or so. That stands at 44.5 at the moment. He looked a good player at...
  17. Chin Music

    *Official* West Indies Tour of Ireland and England- May/June 2025

    But the CB trophy for one was nothing but a tournament prep for the 2007 World Cup. I take your point about days out. I was at the tied game in 2005 that was the tri series final, so I definitely had a good time there. But as a fan, I found multi match bilateral series as dull as ditch water...
  18. Chin Music

    *Official* West Indies Tour of Ireland and England- May/June 2025

    I remember that back in the day, India played Australia in 7 match series. I thought wtf back then about that. Can't help thinking that in a roundabout way, events like that have contributed to the demise. To the credit of this forum, they have called out meaningless ODIs quite well, from what I...
  19. Chin Music

    *Official* West Indies Tour of Ireland and England- May/June 2025

    My guess is that Smith hasn't played anywhere near as much ODIs as Ponting because the latter was largely pre the t20 era.
  20. Chin Music

    UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAUGE KNOCKOUT PHASE

    They were chronically lacking in pace, especially in the midfield and PSG exploited that ruthlessly.

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