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    Henry Blofeld to retire........

    Should have gone years ago. The first rule of spots commentating (and I've been told this by a professional) is to accurately identify the players and describe the action. He has been awful at that for some time.
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    Chris Old: Yorkshire, Warwickshire and England

    A very good, and skillful, bowler on the quicker side of fast medium. With Mike Hendrick the best of the support bowlers to Willis and Botham in the last 70s for England. A major problem was a propensity to pick up injuries - Eric Morecambe once observed that "Chris Old is the only man to bowl...
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    60 years of Test Match Special

    Yes they can. Very easily.
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    60 years of Test Match Special

    A friend of mine does radio commentary - he's one of the BBC county cricket people, and I've also heard him commentate (well) on rugby). He told me that they are taught the most important thing is accurate player recognition. Of course, this is harder in rugby but should not be difficult in...
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    60 years of Test Match Special

    The last time I heard Blofeld I had the TV on at the same time - of course, there is a time delay so I would hear what was being described a few seconds before it appeared on the screen. The amount of stuff he got wrong (including the bowler and the striker more than once) and the amount of...
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    60 years of Test Match Special

    John Arlott's description of the first streaker at Lords (he called ait a 'freaker'). As the police ******ed the chap from the ground John observed "he's male.......... not very pretty ........... and has probably seen his last cricket for the day." The same man describing Clive Lloyd hitting...
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    Zafar Ansari announces retirement aged 25

    His family are very intelligent and very professional people. Not a question of really disliking professional cricket. From a little bit of inside knowledge I'm aware that, while he thoroughly enjoyed the game, it was never something that dominated his life.
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    **Official** County Cricket 2017

    No, Zafar is a very intelligent person with a number of potential career options outside cricket. I know people who know his family, one said last year that they didn't reckon he'd stay in cricket for the long haul. If it hadn't been for the winter tour selection he'd likely have retired last...
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    Your Two Thousand and Twenty Two Test side

    Sam's batting will come on. He'll be at least as good a bowler and better with the wood.
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    Your Two Thousand and Twenty Two Test side

    Young offie at Surrey name of Amar Virdi might be interesting. And a couple of years after that left armer Tyler Meyer.
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    **Official** County Cricket 2017

    You don't learn to play Test cricket by playing county cricket. English cricket (I know from close observation) is becoming very good at identifying young talent - and by that I mean from U11 upwards, but they don't discount later developers. They are good at bringing them through county age...
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    **Official** County Cricket 2017

    A rather decent percentage of the Surrey squad came through the county age group and club system in the county. Rather better at that than a number of counties who 'buy in' from outside (cough Postcode cough), but every time they do pick up a player from another county the ignorant moan goes up.
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    **Official** County Cricket 2017

    The Championship has not been the focus for several years. Games are rammed in for a far too early start to the season then appear at odd times before a rush at the end. However, the average attendance which for much of its existence and certainly the last 50 years of three men and a dog (and...
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    **Official** County Cricket 2017

    I agree with this - and Test cricket, despite the doomsayer,s to my certain knowledge over more than 40 years, goes on. The first class county game in no way pays for itself (never really did apart from, maybe, the early 1900s and 1947-48) but is essential for the best form of the game. I've...
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    Best Looking Cricket Grounds

    Chipstead, Coulsdon and Walcountains CC in Surrey have two inside the boundary, very close to each other. I have had to explain to players of FC level that, should they throw the ball and it touch even a branch on one of those that 4 runs would be added to those already scored - so be very...
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    Best Looking Cricket Grounds

    Galle is a nice ground. I understand there's a ground in Vancouver which is beautiful I used to know someone who was a member of 16 of the (at that time) 17 FC counties (he wouldn't join Yorkshire) and spent his whole summer traveling round the circuit. He said that Tunbridge Wells was the...
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    It's Tough Being Me - The Kevin Pietersen Story

    He must have had massive withdrawal symptoms having not had his face in the news for a few weeks.
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    The greatest fielders from each nation

    If nobody has mentioned Derek Randall as a cover fielder for England the list is incomplete. Stands with anyone I've seen in that area. Neville Cardus once observed that Learie Constantine should have first refusal on any catch when he was in the field.
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    How much time does Test cricket have left?

    Of course not. Cue 'sports' are pub games, like darts..........
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    How much time does Test cricket have left?

    Not a sport.........

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