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    Best ever run out

    Derek Randall running out (I think) Rick McCosker in the Leeds Test 1977. Struck like a hungry cobra.
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    Worst incident you've seen while playing

    1990 - I'm captaining a team for my Club. We bat first and put up a very good score. Attacking fields are on. A few overs into the innings we are on top. I change the bowling, walk to short mid-on and the batsman keels over in front of me. Heart attack. Died. Had a briefly worrying one this...
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    Phillip Hughes Inquest

    Wrong Correct. On this very sad subject. I would question the statement that there was no malice in the bowling. At all levels there frequently is, but there's a huge difference between malice and even intent to injure, let alone kill. The Coroner, of course, has to come up with...
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    Phillip Hughes Inquest

    It was several hours of crap.
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    **Official** County Cricket 2016

    Only because the ECB are nasty southerners:scared:
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    **Official** County Cricket 2016

    Well that's good news at least...........
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    **Official** County Cricket 2016

    It's that southern bias you know8-)
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    Vale Max Walker

    That's certainly true - top face fungus. A good, rather than great, pace bowler but one of the type every side needs. Part of my formative cricket watching years. Bye Tangles.
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    **Official** County Cricket 2016

    Weather won't be a factor - bright and sunny in London, some cloud. They won't have a problem getting the overs in. But after this insult to the game I hope it's a draw.
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    ***Official*** New Zealand in India 2016

    Sorry but a pocket is part of clothing - that's fair. I recall (I think) Trescothick lamping one in Sri Lanka years ago. The fielder at short leg took evasive action but the ball lodged in the loose material in his shirt under his armpit. Very unlucky but out (and, of course, nobody would have...
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    ***Official*** New Zealand in India 2016

    By no means. The ball cannot be caught off external protective equipment worn by a fielder with the exception of the gloves and pads worn by a keeper (although some keepers now wear their pads under their trousers, The ball remains live for the purpose of run scoring and the batsman can still...
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    How come comms/former players and TV analysts are always smarter than current players

    I could captain a Test match from my armchair. It's easy to criticise when your views can't be disproved. Michael Holding and Ian Botham seem to think a captain has 14 fielders. They bang on and on about how many runs are scored through 3rd man and how there's rarely a fielder there but in...
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    What if a shot going for 4 interfered by the spectators ?

    In the unlikely event of that happening the umpires would likely implement Law 43 and come to a sensible conclusion - probably including a report to the organising body and resultant penalties.
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    What if a shot going for 4 interfered by the spectators ?

    Two umpires who do, or have done, Minor Counties cricket (and two other very experienced umpires) disagree with you.
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    What if a shot going for 4 interfered by the spectators ?

    First no umpire should allow a water bottle to be placed on the field. Only a fielders helmet (or as I saw on Saturday - sun hat) when not in use, may be placed on the field and that must be behind the keeper. The answer to the question is four runs. A spectator who enters the field of play is...
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    All-time XI: England

    Pitches in the 1800s could be bad but could also be easy to bat on. They were totally uncovered after the start of the game so could vary a lot. Hayward certainly justifies a mention, the same with the likes of Stoddart I reckon. Barnes was a fast medium bowler who happened to spin the ball...
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    All-time XI: England

    I'll float one: 1, Jack Hobbs - Quite possibly the finest opening batsman of all time. Pretty hard to argue that he wasn't the top batsman in the world between 1909 and 1926. A certain choice 2. Len Hutton - Probably having a greater range of strokes than Herbert Sutcliffe gets him in. 3...
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    Favourite BITS of cricket writing

    Neville Cardus writing about Wilfred Rhodes with particular reference to a spell of 5 for 94 in 48 overs against a strong Australian batting side (Trumper, Hill Darling, Duff etc) on what we would now call a road in 1903/04: "He overthrew some of the most celebrated batsmen that ever lived, on...
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    Favourite BITS of cricket writing

    To Jack Hobbs on his 70th birthday: There falls across this one December day The light remembered from those suns of June That you reflected in the summer play Of perfect strokes across the afternoon. No yeoman ever walked his household land More sure of step, or more secure of lease, Than...
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    Name an overrated and an underrated cricketer

    I would suggest that Sachin is wrongly underrated on this forum for what I have read. I'd say he's the best batsman I've seen in over 40 years watching the game. I would agree on Imran being overrated though. Let's just say that if the condition of the ball was monitored to the same extent in...

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