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    Name an overrated and an underrated cricketer

    If anything I'd turn that around. For me: Overrated: Darren Gough - some good spells but a brainless, totally ineffective one was more likely Underrated: Richard Hadlee - best fast medium bowler I have seen
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    Watto to retire from international cricket

    I shall miss his uncanny ability, having being given out LBW, to call for a revue and watch the ball hit half way up middle :laugh: It almost became automatic.
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    Test Cricket and T20

    I can look at a scorecard from a Test that I watched in the 1970s and remember things about it - be it a single incident or a passage of play. I would struggle to do that with a T20 game I saw one week ago. And no, that's not due to befuddled memory :@ T20 remains a snack compared to the 3...
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    comical occurrences in club cricket

    If the umpire was of the opinion that a serious injury had occurred he would be justified in calling 'dead ball' and you would not have been stumped.
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    comical occurrences in club cricket

    Junior (and the more junior the better) cricket can be hilarious. Last summer I was doing an U10 Tournament. One delivery, my colleague and I decided, produced 5 runs, all run, with the ball never going more than 20 yards from the stumps. One ball, and several kids, flying everywhere...
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    Martin Crowe passes away

    Even taking into account the current crop Martin Crowe was the best New Zealand batsman I have seen. Since seeing the news my memory has gone to a century he scored in a Test at Lords in 1994. Still stands amongst one of the finest I can recall. Even more importantly he always seemed to do it...
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    Worst Ideas

    The Laws state (unchanged in many years) that a delivery that would otherwise be called a wide shall not be a wide if a batsman moves to bring it within reach - whether or not a stroke is actually played. There can be variations for limited overs games. In the regulations for (I suspect all)...
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    Worst Ideas

    There are two no balls which only the strikers end umpire can call - encroachment by the wicket keeper and more than 2 fielders behind square leg on the leg side. Worst current Law = no ball for a bowler breaking the wicket at his end during delivery.
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    Pre-dominance of incompetent English umpires on the ICC Elite Umpires Panel

    ^^^^^^^^ Best post on this thread. I had a similar one late last season in a high pressure game that mattered to both sides. The side batting first secured enough bonus points quite early in affairs for their happiness. The side batting second were 80 short of their target (which, it turned...
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    Another Mankading

    Personally I have absolutely no issue with the bowler in this situation. I used to teach young players to watch the bowler's hand and, until the ball is released, make sure they are in their ground. It didn't harm their running in any way but ensured they were not run out in such a manner...
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    Return crease NO BALL

    It would be legal. The return crease no ball only applies to the back foot, which cannot touch that line (it can be over it and raised). I know a SLA bowler whose front foot lands outside the return crease when he bowls round the wicket. As his back foot doesn't transgress the delivery is legal.
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    ***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

    If Footit doesn't play this game I doubt, given his age, he'll play a Test. The Windies, in their pomp, used to pick a new young bowler and expect nothing from him. The old heads would do the damage and they could just bowl. With Anderson and road at least steady and Stokes as the wild card...
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    ***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

    Umpire a bit a say that. Bat and pad on the same line. It is unlikely you'll see the edge. You may, if lucky, hear the edge as the dominant sound. Alternatively, if lucky, you may get both sounds together and decide you can't be sure. You may only hear the sound of ball on pad. It may be...
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    ***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

    I agree, Atherton is a superb commentator - insightful and knowledgeable but with some occasional dry wit. Never an "in my day" type either. The only ones I mute are occasionally Botham and, on default, Warne. What state of mind must Amla be in at the moment:confused::confused:
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    ***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

    Not the worst idea. Possibly the worst idea. Although somewhere in my memory i have something about his dad opening the bowling for Yorkshire......
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    ***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

    Declaration. Personally I wouldn't have. Another hour or so would have destroyed the last shred of SA confidence and meant at least 100 runs. It would have also given Stokes a bit of recovery time to steam through the batting.
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    ***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

    Stokes yer mug :@ Drop him
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    ***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

    Morkel puts his head in his hands........ and drops it.
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    ***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

    Well done Jonny. Your dad would have been chuffed.
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    ***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

    Over 40 years watching Test cricket for me and only maybe the first morning at Trent Bridge last summer beats it. Ahead of some in 1981 and 2005 - and many other great ones.

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