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    ***Official*** England in Pakistan

    I saw Naved and Mushy demolish Middlesex twice in a day a few weeks ago, and I was very impressed with Naved. I suspect that the other Pak pace bowlers can all be assaulted, and we have the firepower at the top of the order to do it. If Showpony Akhtar could ever get his act together for more...
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    **.....UNOFFICIAL.....** ASHES 2007 thread

    I did. I reckoned we had about a one in four chance, which was a lot better than the previous one in four hundred. I couldn't see why the cricket England had played for the previous 18 months wasn't up to the required standard to compete seriously with Australia, and I'd got rather tired of the...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    I am as yet unconvinced of this. I am rather of the opinion that the assembled gentlemen of the press are busily talking about their own feelings and emotions and projecting them on to the England team. I would prefer to hold fire until after the Second Test before I take one poor match as...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    Is anyone else actually going to the match on any of the days? I'm obviously going every day, so if anyone feels like meeting up for a chinwag (whether round the lip of a glass or otherwise), do say so. Cheers, Mike
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    Pietersen gets the nod

    I don't entirely follow your logic here. England are making a pretty emphatic statement with this selection: they intend to attack the Australians with both bat and ball. They are not content to play the long game, making sure they have insurance against an early collapse so they can hang in...
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    Which ground in your country produces the best cricket ?

    As anyone with even the smallest grasp of cricket history would know, before the WI pace quartet there was no restriction on the number of bouncers which could be bowled in an over, and there was no prescription about the minimum number of overs to be bowled in a day's play, and both of the...
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    Paul Collingwood has a death wish

    I supposed that you were excluding your early childhood from this reminiscence until you started wittering on about telling lies to old ladies at age four. What leads you to suppose that England were not the best in the world in the mid-to-late 50s? I mean, we beat everybody else around that...
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    Hussain vs Vaughan

    Duncan Fletcher has been in office for six years and is showing no signs of leaving, and the ECB are doing what they can to persuade him to stay virtually forever, so it's questionable what relevance this has to the topic under discussion. Alec Stewart was the last England captain to be sacked...
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    best and worst of June 2005

    Best shot: Matt Prior's awesome reverse sweep off Harbhajan Singh in the 20-20 between Surrey and Sussex at Hove. I remember Gough playing the odd reverse pull on the 1994-5 Ashes tour, but I've never seen a shot like Prior's. I expect reverse shots to be fairly soft and be more in the way of...
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    Hussain vs Vaughan

    I doubt either of them could have captained each other's side as well as they do themselves. Vaughan is the captain he is because he believes England can win games and he has a side that can. Hussain was the captain he was because he was fed up with England losing and after a bit he managed to...
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    ***Official*** Bangladesh in England

    Even so, Ashtrayfull's subsequent performances and some of the things some of the others did showed that it wasn't *quite* a flash in the pan. I don't expect Bangladesh's results to improve much in the near future. But that's going to be at least in part because no-one is going to take them...
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    ***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

    And of course Gillespie has been exhibiting marvellous control and penetration. Last time round Gillespie was a very difficult bowler to play bowling at 140+ kph. He isn't hitting 140 kph at all now, and at that pace it seems much less likely that Trescothick will waft at him as ineffectively...
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    Which ground in your country produces the best cricket ?

    I reckon as how you'd get some argument from some people slightly north of you. You get all that nonsense at places like Jesmond and Chester-le-Street these days too. But although it was the scene of Richard Johnson's 10-fer, I'm not really convinced. Neither was my old mate the late Alan...
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    Black Caps generic thread

    On that note, a mate of mine was having a chat with the Middx chief exec the other day, and said worthy opined that Styris is the most useful overseas player we've had in years. Given that "in years" covers both Langer and Phlegming, that's pretty high praise. To be fair, this is probably based...
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    Black Caps generic thread

    What's with the obsession with new players? NZ have picked enough players in the last two or three series to last them for ages if they can ever manage to assemble eleven of them fit at the same time. The opening spots aren't yet filled convincingly, but the middle order already presents...
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    This news is as momentous as the occasional items we get telling us that Andy Caddick is still fighting fit and ready for the call-up any time. Cheers, Mike
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    ***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

    Ah, thanks for that. It explains what he meant in the interview I heard him give on TV during the Middx/Surrey championship game when he said he was keen to do a lot of bowling for Surrey and why Surrey have been giving him a fair amount of bowling to do. Cheers, Mike
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    The Ashes are coming home!

    Ah, so if a batsman is known to have an inordinate fondess for the hook, and the bowler posts a couple of deep square legs and bowls a bouncer, and the batsman is caught at deep backward square, that's bad bowling, is it? It seems to have escaped your omnivisual capacity that third man is a...
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    Botham vs Flintoff

    I'm truly sorry for having commented on your ridiculous post. I no longer wish to discuss anything with you, as you have nothing to say which would interest me. Life as a cricket fan is so much more interesting if you accept as a general theory that a good player is a good player in any era, and...
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    ***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

    Well, at least this evening proved that England aren't invincible and that Australia actually are capable of winning at least the odd game. I thought we looked a bit less sharp than we have in our recent games, and Australia sharper than in theirs. if so, then things are as they should be -...

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