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    Spin - If you Bowled it would it be Flat or tossed up

    Mr Andre and Mr Lucky Eddie have said it all. You have to be able to do both. A ball tossed up causes the batsman to lose 'perspective', in other words, he is unable to see anything other than the ball and so will be unsure of the length. The spin imparted on a slower, flighted delivery can...
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    NO one can stop the Baggy Green team

    Winning does become a habit. Complacency then is the biggest enemy to a winning side, because you can then forget how to dominate very quickly. The Indian series win over Australia was a fluke, a one-off, but if Australia do not learn from it then there is a danger that it could happen again.
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    Good Coaches..

    I will take your word for it. I am not of this era. For me, life took a downward turn the day they stopped putting starting-handles on the front of motor cars. I think that the downward spiral started in the 1960's when the third television channel started transmission.
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    Ganguly's tall claim!

    A classic case of 'the ends justifying the means'?. As someone who is fortunate enough to be able to watch an awful lot of cricket, I feel confident in saying that both gentlemen are correct (and I am not generally conciliatory in nature). Many times in the West Indies, Mr Ganguly did not...
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    Good Coaches..

    I know this..... You don't share a household with a bowler for years and not know something. They used to be made out of rubber, were then made out of plastic and are now made out of stuff called 'reactive resin'
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    Ashes

    If they did, the difference in class would have been there for all to see. No, forget I said that. You cannot compare boxers from separate eras the same as you cannot compare cricketers (well, you can, but you are only wasting your time). Anyway, either Salisbury got lucky or Cork choked (that...
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    Ashes

    Credit where cridit's due : Clarke is playing really well. 70-odd not out, and not much else from anywhere else. Derbyshire have just brought Mohammed Ali back into the attack. Surrey have responded by bringing Rocky Marciano in as a pinch-hitter.
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    Ashes

    Clarke batting very well, although he has been rapped a couple of very painful blows :D
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    The Problem with English cricket

    It is hard to find a solution to a problem which is historical in nature. If it is ideal to have, say, eight first-class teams, then how do you go about bringing that to fruition? It may be that the idea of setting up promotion and relegation, two divisions and the like will eventually cause...
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    Ashes

    Young Mr Rikki Clarke will have his opportunity today to stake some sort of a claim. Surrey are currently playing D***yshire in a televised game, and Mr Marsh is in attendance. The player who has impressed me so far is Nathan Dumelow. I suspect that he could also be an academy candidate. Ian...
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    Ashes

    This is the only website where I have actually seen the name 'Dean' used in the same phrase as the word 'Australia'. This season, he and Cork up the road have been devastating in county cricket, but I think that a place on the Ashes tour will not happen for him. Possibly a winter at the Academy...
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    Surrey Bias - How much more blatant..?

    Thank you very much for the assistance. My son set up my system for me a few weeks ago. The reason I use Linux now is I got fed up of not being able to trust anything because of all the viruses which silly people keep writing, which all seem to be targeted against Microsoft systems (thus far I...
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    *Official* 4th Test - England v India - Keep all Discussion Here Please!

    I believe that Derbyshire left out all of their 'big guns' (do they have any?) Sorry, Leicestershire fan..... for the game against India, but Gunter, Aldred and Kerr are hardly Dean, Ali and Cork. A friend saw part of the game at Derby and he thought that Ratra's knock was quite tedious...
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    Surrey Bias - How much more blatant..?

    Konqueror. Is that not good? Tenchi? Blame my parents. As a child, I would have preferred 'Joe' or 'Bill' or 'Zeke' or something which identifies the good guy in cowboy films, rather than a fish which roots around at the bottom of a pond.
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    Good Coaches..

    I used to spend Saturday mornings in a tenpin bowling alley for around five years because both of my children used to play as juniors. It is very expensive ("What would you like for your birthday dear?" "A new bowling ball, Father - £150". "How much ??????") I tried playing myself a few...
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    Ashes

    I am quite certain that there will be sufficient Surrey players on tour to make Mr Thorpe feel quite at home in Australia this winter.
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    Surrey Bias - How much more blatant..?

    I feel that if Devon Malcolm played for Surrey he would have stood a chance of 'Young Player of the Year' - and he is close to forty. Can someone help me here please? If I type a message, it scrolls across and I cannot see what I have already typed. If I click the 'preview' button, then I can...

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