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Discussion of UK cricket
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English youngsters to keep an eye on
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Batsmen
Rory Burns - the most promising uncapped youngster I have seen
recently as an opening bat
Mark Stoneman
J Vince
L Wells
Fast Bowlers
J Overton
M Coles
R Topley
Spinners
M Leach SLA
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Broad
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I really wish he'd make his mind up about about being world class. He's beginning to get quite irritating. What a morning. Aside from Broad's obvious five fer the comedy hooping inswinger followed by the outswinger followed by the outswinger was a wonderful masterclass by Jimmy. Wow.
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Real cricket
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Don't you just love test cricket with innings totals around 200-250 where every run has more importance? Have cricket's perennial under-achievers lost the steel they had in March?
The way things are, England could lose a home series to New Zealand and still spank the Aussies. :-)
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CC Stats 2013 - Week 5
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I originally posted this last night, but it seems to have gone AWOL. :(
Record county v county partnerships :
Ham 9th v Glo 128 JHK Adams & DR Briggs Bristol
Dur 2nd v Sur 100 MD Stoneman & SG Borthwick Oval
Yor 5th v Som 207 GS Balance & AU Rashid Leeds
RPW : Week 36.25, YTD 32.37 (+0.65)... more »
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The value of the classic English fast medium bowler
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Three RFM bowlers in their thirties - Richardson, Murtagh and Masters
- give the lie to the modern heresy that bowlers of their pace
(around 80 MPH) are not dangerous enough to play Test cricket. All
have the old fashioned virtues of bowling a consistent line and
length, pitching it up and moving the ball both off the seam and in... more »
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A strong Yorkshire....
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...Is a strong Yorkshire necessarily a strong England?
I like Root a lot. That guy can bat for England.
On a lighter note, he may be the last England debutant whose final Test I am not alive for. I am fifty. If Root plays for England until he's 40 I don't reckon I'll see it.
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Jimmy joins the 300 club.
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I suspect he would have got there earlier if not for Troy Cooley's attempts to improve his action. It's interesting to compare him with the other three members of the England 300 club. FST was the first and probably the quickest of them. His main weapon was the late outswinger, although later on in his... more »
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It is happening again .... spot-fixing again!
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As the Indian reporter on TMS said, why are these people still being involved in match-fixing when the IPL has made many of them - and he mentioned Sreesanth - millionaires?
"For 4-million rupees ($72,900) Sreesanth agreed to concede 13 or more runs in his second over of a May 9 match at Mohali, Kumar told a news conference.... more »
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Turgid
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Not much else to say, really, I reckon. Until Rutherford knocks a run-a-ball ton tomorrow...
Richard
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