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  1. Barney Rubble

    Cricket's nicest guys

    It is great, as a cricket fan, to know that most of the sport's greatest heroes are not nearly as spoiled by fame and fortune as some other professional athletes around the world can be. I have had the fortune to meet many players, past and present, over the last 18 months or so, and can...
  2. Barney Rubble

    Which current players will score a Test 300?

    Of the current crop of Test match players who have not as yet scored a Test match triple century (there are lots of them!) who do people think will go on to score one? I've got a feeling Michael Vaughan will do it eventually - when he is at his best there is no-one to touch him in terms of...
  3. Barney Rubble

    First to score an ODI double century

    It will happen at some point, who will it be? My guess is Flintoff or SRT.
  4. Barney Rubble

    Final predictions - Eng v WI

    England to win by 80 runs or 6 wickets - this team are on one hell of a high. Eng bat first, 274-6, Flintoff 87, Jones 52*, Solanki 50, Gayle 3-47. WI 194ao, Bravo 64, Flintoff 4-27, Wharf 3-41. Or alternatively.... WI bat first, 241-8, Powell 71*, R Hinds 51*, Harmison 5-33, Flintoff 3-44...
  5. Barney Rubble

    World's tallest/shortest cricketers

    With the 6ft 10in monster Will Jefferson having a great season for Essex this year, it made me wonder how many other cricketers in the world are as tall as he is, and whether there are any ridiculously short ones - players like SRT, BCL and Ponting, all around the 5ft 6in region, are...
  6. Barney Rubble

    England vs. Australia, 21st Sept

    I'm going to be the first one to call England on this one - Flintoff 70+ and 3+ wickets, Trescothick 50+, Wharf 3+ wickets, with Hayden hitting 80+ in vain for Aus but it's not enough - Eng to win by 30 runs or 4 wickets roughly. I'm now going to get slated......lol :p
  7. Barney Rubble

    Heath Streak and the Zimbabwe situation

    I was given a valuable insight into the whole business that is going on in Zimbabwe recently by a man who came in to give a talk at my school. He is a Zimbabwean poet named Albert Nganyi who is very famous in his home country, apparently, having performed for and met Mandela and Mugabe. However...
  8. Barney Rubble

    Is my team the worst ever?

    I play cricket for my school at 3rd XI level, due to my extreme crapness, and believe our team may be one of the worst out there. Last season we played 8, lost 6, won 1 by 9 runs, 1 abandoned. Season before we played 6, lost 6. Season before we played 9, lost 8, 1 abandoned. Not a great...
  9. Barney Rubble

    Sachin to miss Trophy

    It's official, he's out, the elbow hasn't cleared up. Goodbye, India....... :p
  10. Barney Rubble

    Great cricketing names

    There are plenty of players around with top quality names at the moment - props to Langeveldt for pointing out Hamilton Masakadza and Arnoldus Mauritius Blignaut on another thread, that got me wondering what other wonders world cricket holds. A few of my personal favourites are (apart from...
  11. Barney Rubble

    Next teams to gain Test status

    If Zimbabwe get their Test status back next year (the withdrawal only lasts till the end of the year) then we will be back up to our full quota of 10 Test match teams. Assuming that Kenya are the next team to be given Test status (they are already better than Bangladesh at ODIs according to the...
  12. Barney Rubble

    ICC 2001 editing - help needed please!!

    can someone give me a hand editing ICC 2001 please? I've followed the instructions for ICC 2002 and the whole process can be done the same, but when I try and load my edited file onto ICC 2001, the game just freezes on the "Loading" bit. I made sure I followed the instructions right, but it...
  13. Barney Rubble

    Channel 4's UK cricket coverage

    I want to get some people's views on this after watching the C&G Final today - C4's coverage is good but I feel it needs some work. Nicholas - intolerably smug, not funny - get him off my screen!! Atherton - insightful, knowledgeable, funny. Reeve - insightful, but not v funny, ineloquent...
  14. Barney Rubble

    Crazy SA

    Is it just me or does SA's decision to pick Jean-Paul Duminy as a batsman for their series v SL and the Champions Trophy seem slightly pointless if they are just going to bat him at no8 like they seem to so far? Correct me if I'm wrong, but as he is a specialist batsman (isn't he?), doesn't...
  15. Barney Rubble

    The ICC Super Series 2005

    Anyone else really, really, looking forward to this series? Australia (assuming they are stil no1 by 1 April next year) take on the Rest of the World in a 3-match ODI series, and....wait for it....A SIX DAY TEST MATCH?!?! I guess six days is to avoid the possibility of a draw, which if it means...
  16. Barney Rubble

    Wicketkeepers who bowl

    Tatenda Taibu's exploits in Zim's ODI and Test series against SL, where he gave his pads to Alester Maregwede and came on to bowl, taking wickets on each occasion (his maiden Test wicket was Sanath Jayasuriya!!!), got me thinking - can anyone remember other occasions where wicketkeepers have...
  17. Barney Rubble

    England: Young Guns vs Golden Oldies

    Simple - the Young Guns versus the Golden Oldies (when they were at their peak), who wins? Young Guns 1. M Trescothick 2. A Strauss 3. R Key 4. M Vaughan 5. I Bell 6. A Flintoff 7. G Jones 8. A Giles 9. M Hoggard 10. S Harmison 11. J Anderson Golden Oldies 1. M Atherton 2. M Ramprakash 3. G...
  18. Barney Rubble

    International Twenty20

    The news that England are going to play a twenty20 ODI v Aus next year to open the Ashes series got me thinking - most of the England ODI squad haven't played much of the very short game, so would they pick a radically different squad from players who have? Aus would probably just choose their...
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