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    Win a Somerset Shirt!

    Last one before my hols! Our new boy from Durban, James Bryant Among scorers is hardly a giant! At the crease he looks shifty, He's made just one fifty! So on Bryant we can't be reliant!
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    Win a Somerset Shirt!

    Shameless! I'm not too proud to use the same rhyme twice! Especially when Wes has given me the perfect excuse! He needed some time in the middle So their order they opted to fiddle But this time Wes Durston Outfoxed Gary Kirsten! The selectors are left with a riddle.
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    Win a Somerset Shirt!

    Topical The South African batsman G. Kirsten Now he's playing, for runs he is thirstin'. He used all his tricks To make sixty-six Before chipping Ian Blackwell to Durston.
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    Win a Somerset Shirt!

    Inspired by his ravings in the Southgate programme.... There once was a Ciderman, Peter, Whose manner and tone could be sweeter. His strange sense of humour, I once heard the rumour, Came from absinthe imbibed by the litre.
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    No Blackwell

    LIKE IT! Like it a lot. (And you know I can't resist being a smart-arse!):lol:
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    No Blackwell

    Two things jf20001 Firstly: Unlikely in the extreme I'd have thought. Early suggestions were that he'd be out of action for a year. Too early to then risk him straight back into Test match action. Probably a winter at the academy to assess his rehabilitation. Secondly: Don't you think...
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    Poor Show Channel 4

    I'm wrong The rule applies to ODI's as well, but it's use in these circumstances would be farcical, unless the England selectors can be sure they won't want players for either of the games that overlap a CC match.
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    Poor Show Channel 4

    That rule only applies to Tests. I think I'm right in saying that the One-day squad remain as a squad for the entire "tournament". The rule about nominating a player from a county eleven who can later be replaced only applies to Test squads. It wouldn't make sense to release Johnno back to...
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    Poor Show Channel 4

    Re: Fair Enough.... My thoughts on this are many and varied. Johnno deserves England recognition, but to me he is a better player in the longer game than in limited overs. Indeed, I tend to agree with one contributor to a BBC web site message board who says the selectors appear to have got...
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    Poor Show Channel 4

    I think you're barking at the wrong target Sorry John, but I think your ire at the broadcasters is unjustified in this case. If it weren't for the fact that the Rugby World Cup Final is on the protected list, then the terrestrial broadcasters would very probably have lost the rights to the...
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    Poor Show Channel 4

    Definitions Bear in mind that the definitions of "pay-per-view", and "free-to air" are not as clear cut as you might think, and are slowly changing in the public perception. Subscription channels, such as Sky Sports are clearly not "free-to air", but neither is the bulk of their coverage...
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    ICC Test Championship

    Yeah Sure, that's true. Just thought the timing was a little ironic, that's all.
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    ICC Test Championship

    Isn't it a little ironic that, having changed the format of the ICC Test Championship so that "every match result counts" and that "dead rubbers at the end of series are a thing of the past", the first series to be featured under the new format has been rendered a dead rubber entirely. Under...
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    England or Somerset?

    Unavailable Peter Anderson announced Johnson's unavailabilty for England a number of days ago, so it's not really far to say he's been ignored.
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    Answering the critics

    Good point. Eight CC wickets so far; 4 bowled, 2 lbw, 2 caught behind.
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    Answering the critics

    Slagging off? I'm not slagging anyone off! Just making what I believe to be a valid comparison. Here's another one. Streak's workload has only averaged at 36 overs per Test Match, which isn't that excessive. A number of sides over the years have had to rely heavily on a single strike bowler...
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    Answering the critics

    There's nothing AMAZING about it. This happens regularly. In the current game at Taunton there have been 594 runs scored so far with only one wide. At Old Trafford 581 with only 3. At the Oval 715 with only 5. A wide in first-class cricket has to be unstrikable. The bowler is aiming for...
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    Answering the critics

    Re: Re: That's not really the point. I'm pretty confident that if he does get his chance, and takes it to such an extent that he eventually gets 51 caps, he'll end those 51 games with more than 180 wickets (only 3.5 per game) at a strike rate better than 62. That's a pretty poor return for a...
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    Answering the critics

    That's not really the point. There are many batsmen who've done better this year than Vaughan, Tres, Nasser et al. But I really don't think we'll be seeing Mal Loye in the Test side. Yes, Harmison will be asked to do a different job for England, as I pointed out several posts ago. And yes, I...
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    Answering the critics

    Have to admire your doggedness, Rik. Your utter refusal to back down is quite exemplary, young man.:saint: Even when there's plenty of contradictory evidence. The "talented but inconsistent" Worcs side averaged around 325 on first innings last year, and scored more batting bonus points than...

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