Mark Butcher vs Johnny Bairstow

[mr_mister]

love this father-son grilling Stewart gives Ranatunga here

 

[The Sean]

Not sure he ever really ran out of puff. Seemed to call for a runner any time he got to double figures.

 

[ankitj]

English mediocrity spam XI

Love this phrase ?

 

[morgieb]

Guptill played 47 and is 29. something

And that's despite averaging like 80 against Bangladesh + Zimbabwe.

 

[grecian]

Which one kept bowling wides

Edit: yep, that's it

to think I replied to your post semi-seriously....

 

[nightprowler10]

The reason why a lot of people love him is because he was always consistently mediocre at a time where all of the alternatives were genuinely awful

I will not stand idly by while you besmirch the good name of Shaun Udal.

 

[trundler]

ton think I replied to your post semi-seriously....

I initially had Bell instead of Collingwood as the troll pick too

 

[nightprowler10]

Just to add to the Collingwood love, I used to show his catches against Australia in 2005 to people in cricket v baseball arguments. I did temporarily lose some love for him when he made a 3-0 prediction against Pakistan post-Ashes, but overall he was one of my favs Eng players from that era.

 

[Gob]

Didn't know Bairstow has 70 plus tests. And Damien Martyn only played 67 wtf is wrong with this world

 

[trundler]

Richard to return with a Bairstow > Martyn hot take

 

[a massive zebra]

Didn't know Bairstow has 70 plus tests. And Damien Martyn only played 67 wtf is wrong with this world

Australia had an embarrassment of riches to choose from in Martyn's era and England had just two good batsmen in Bairstow's era, one of which retired mid way through his career.

 

[GIMH]

Australia had an embarrassment of riches to choose from in Martyn's era and England had just two good batsmen in Bairstow's era, one of which retired mid way through his career.

Bairstow does also overlap with Strauss, Trott, Bell, Pietersen, Prior and others. Granted all of them at the tail end pretty much. So I’m not sure what my point is.

 

[sledger]

I will not stand idly by while you besmirch the good name of Shaun Udal.

Udal was actually good imo. Way better than the dreadful Ian Blackwell, Alex Loudon, Richard Dawson and Gareth Batty.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Bairstow does also overlap with Strauss, Trott, Bell, Pietersen, Prior and others. Granted all of them at the tail end pretty much. So I’m not sure what my point is.

I think this to myself as I get towards the end of most of my posts. And spoken sentences in real life.

Udal was actually good imo. Way better than the dreadful Ian Blackwell, Alex Loudon, Richard Dawson and Gareth Batty.

Loudon was a batsman tbf. Not a very good one mind you

 

[Chubb]

I think this to myself as I get towards the end of most of my posts. And spoken sentences in real life.

Loudon was a batsman tbf. Not a very good one mind you

They picked Loudon because he'd developed a "doosra" and they thought it was worth a punt. A guy called Shaftab Khalid who played a couple of years at Worcester also got on a Lions tour for the same reason despite negligible impacts in county cricket.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Wait, was Loudon the guy who was with Pippa Middleton for a little while?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Wait, was Loudon the guy who was with Pippa Middleton for a little while?

Yeah I remember that and he left her because she wasn't up to standard haha

 

[Gob]

Australia had an embarrassment of riches to choose from in Martyn's era and England had just two good batsmen in Bairstow's era, one of which retired mid way through his career.

I know how it happened tbh it was just a whinge at the universe

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I know how it happened tbh it was just a whinge at the universe

If the universe was really cruel Bairstow would have been Australian.

 

[sunilz]

If the universe was really cruel Bairstow would have been Australian.

Bairstow vs Head vs Wade vs Paine ( assume he is not Captain)?