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  1. Neil Pickup

    CricketWeb turns 20 next month

    I’m still here, just about…
  2. Neil Pickup

    The mod team needs to be reviewed

    Good evening. I don’t believe we’ve met…?
  3. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    Late 2001. I have been a member for comfortably more than half of my life...
  4. Neil Pickup

    *** Official *** County Cricket 2020

    Maybe should have replied to this slightly earlier in the day, but this lad is 100% an Oxfordshire product. First saw him as an eight-year-old playing three years up in a district squad, and he stood out even then. I had him in my County squads for two years, including the “invincibles” year -...
  5. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    Wonder when we’ll see the first Test cricketer to born after CricketWeb was founded... or have we already done so? EDIT: Naseem Shah - Feb 2003...
  6. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    Apparently Natarajan, Shardul Thakur and Kartik Tyagi are still in Australia as net bowlers but not part of the Test squad.
  7. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    I’m guessing the ODI squad will have gone home, and there’s quarantine bubbles keeping you from flying anyone else in? Has Natarajan got anything of a red-ball record / are there any other cabs on the rank for India at A-team level or would we be back to the good old wheel of mediocrity?
  8. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    Yep. Can’t see the angle that works for it to happen, but it’s out. Who’s the next fit seamer to come in for Yadav? Siraj has been seriously impressive this match for me.
  9. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    Neither of them would have any cause for complaint if they’re the one to get axed.
  10. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    Heard the Muller Medal there and thought they’d finally got Cameraman Joe to own up...
  11. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    They imported everyone to the UAE this time around. I’m not sure they’d use international umpires in a normal tournament.
  12. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    I have achieved a lot of things in this game that I never thought I’d manage when I signed up to this forum back in the first half of my lifetime, but I think it’s going to be a stretch to play under lights... Crowd and seating is a decent shout. Showing how little I’ve actually paid attention...
  13. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    This baffles me. I played pink ball a few times last summer and I could see it far better than I could pick up the red one, especially in the field. It’s not the first I’ve heard it, and I don‘t doubt it’s true, but I just can’t get my head round the science of it. Anyway, it’s 3am, my sleep...
  14. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    If you’re not going to hold your catches then it’s knocking the stumps over or going all stick cricket on the batsmen.
  15. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    I don’t think it would have crossed Jadeja’s mind on any score other than 49; Labuschagne knew it, Rahane wasn’t anticipating it as much as he ought to have been. Marnus wasn’t anticipating that one, mind.
  16. Neil Pickup

    2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

    “Only one way you can possibly take a wicket like this...” so Ravi obliges, right on cue. Good chance to knock India over for 330 here
  17. Neil Pickup

    *Official* NP Cricket Simulator: Updated Version (16-04-2020)

    Lockdown Progress! Afternoon all, just the 11 plus years since I last did any work on this project... Week 3 (Week 4? Who's counting?) of Lockdown has pushed me to the extent that I ended up in the attic digging around for old computers and seeing if I could find the source code for this...
  18. Neil Pickup

    *Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

    How did Anderson break a rib!?
  19. Neil Pickup

    Marnus Labuschagne’s ceiling...

    This is all the more baffling as Glamorgan’s track record with developing their ‘own’ players is limited at best...
  20. Neil Pickup

    *Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

    11 minutes...

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