Who will be the Wisden Five this year?

[King Pietersen]

Missing the point of the thread completely. I disagree with your point too, but let's not get into that. The Wisden Five takes English domestic cricket into account as much as International performances, and Graham Onions did more in that respect than anyone else in England really. Ended the season with 69 wickets at 19.95 with 5 five-wicket hauls and some more than solid performances for England. Should be a shoe-in really.

 

[Richard]

Played for Leicestershire in 2003 according to a cricinfo article.

Oh, yeah - forgot about that actually. Didn't play for more than a handful of games though, UIMM.

 

[Furball]

One century and not much else. I realise it was an important century but does Trott really merit it off the back of that?

1,207 Championship runs @ 80.46.

Series winning Ashes ton.

Hard to see him not winning.

 

[Furball]

Oh, yeah - forgot about that actually. Didn't play for more than a handful of games though, UIMM.

Think it was Jeremy Snape who had a brilliant anecdote about playing alongside Sehwag.

Leics were playing against a county with a good Pakistani bowler who was getting the ball to reverse - so when the batsmen are having a chat at the end of the over, Sehwag points out the problem and tells Snape he will solve it.

Sehwag's solution to dealing with a ball that was starting to reverse? Hit it out the ground so that it gets lost and the ball needs changed.

 

[Richard]

There's a fair amount of evidence that Mark Butcher's sensational, BaggyGreenWash-averting 173* knock at Headingley in 2001 had a substantial helping-hand from his favourite partner Nasser Hussain - due to the fact that Hussain hooked the ball (which had been doing plenty and plenty) out of the ground and the replacement did nothing much.

 

[Jarquis]

1,207 Championship runs @ 80.46.

Series winning Ashes ton.

Hard to see him not winning.

Didn't realise his County performances were that good. Fairy-nuff.

 

[zaremba]

Wisden's out now but I haven't got a copy and can't seem to find the answer on the web.

Anyon(e)?

 

[Richard]

Mine's being delivered as soon as Macmillan get their shove on as per every year... but not here yet.

 

[fredfertang]

15th April I believe Mr Z - what have you been putting in your coffee?

 

[zaremba]

15th April I believe Mr Z - what have you been putting in your coffee?

Sorry Fred - this event has less of a sacramental quality for me than for you! - but Wisden are saying that it's now available. Presumably that's just in the sense that you can place an advance order, ie a lie.

 

[King Pietersen]

Amazon has the release date set at 15th of April, so I'd presume Wisden meant it was available for pre-order. Think I might give it an order this year!

 

[fredfertang]

That's a shame - read your post and hoped you might have been privy to an advance copy together with a bit of confidential information - or are you and you're now trying to throw me off the scent?

 

[zaremba]

That's a shame - read your post and hoped you might have been privy to an advance copy together with a bit of confidential information - or are you and you're now trying to throw me off the scent?

Sorry old chap. You're unthrowoffthescentable

EDIT: or is that inthrowoffthescentable?

 

[four_or_six]

There's a fair amount of evidence that Mark Butcher's sensational, BaggyGreenWash-averting 173* knock at Headingley in 2001 had a substantial helping-hand from his favourite partner Nasser Hussain - due to the fact that Hussain hooked the ball (which had been doing plenty and plenty) out of the ground and the replacement did nothing much.

Butcher said exactly this on tms the other day.

 

[Richard]

I've heard him say it several times. I seem to remember him saying it right after the innings, along with "had a few cigarettes" in response to a question about how he prepared. Disappointed me a fair bit, that, but the excellence of the rest of the knock made-up to some extent.

 

[Richard]

Sorry old chap. You're unthrowoffthescentable

EDIT: or is that inthrowoffthescentable?

The former. Emphatically so. Does the latter sound aught but awfully incongruous?

 

[Furball]

uncongruous surely?

 

[BoyBrumby]

uncongruous surely?

lol.

The irony of Richard lecturing on the incongruity of neologisms is rich.

But then I'm just an ineducated country boy.

 

[zaremba]

I hear that Matt Prior is one of the 5. Not sure about the rest.

 

[King Pietersen]

Swann's a certainty surely, I'd presume Broad would be in there after his Ashes series too and then I'd also guess Onions would be a part of the 5 after his County season also. The final spot could go to anyone of Clarke, Trott or Hilfenhaus IMO.