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BERT B

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May 18, 2003, 5:22:27 PM5/18/03
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Anyone else think he's worth a place in the test side?
I know he's 31,but having seen him play regularly for the last three years,I
would have thought his performances would have merited a chance.

Bert

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jim brant

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May 18, 2003, 5:42:06 PM5/18/03
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"BERT B" <st...@harnetts.glowinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone else think he's worth a place in the test side?
> I know he's 31,but having seen him play regularly for the last three
years,I
> would have thought his performances would have merited a chance.
>

There are those here who have made the same point over the past couple of
years. His problem, according to the England management, is apparently that
he bowls too straight. I assume they are bothered about damaging those
expensive stump cameras if they pick somebody who actually bowls at the
stumps, so they stick with GBH.

Jim


Cricketislife!

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May 18, 2003, 11:22:59 PM5/18/03
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Pardon me but Who is Saggers?

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Robert Henderson

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May 19, 2003, 12:39:04 AM5/19/03
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In article <ba8tik$gls$1...@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>, BERT B <steve@harnetts.g
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>Anyone else think he's worth a place in the test side?

Definitely. RH

>I know he's 31,but having seen him play regularly for the last three years,I
>would have thought his performances would have merited a chance.
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Matt Wheeler

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"Cricketislife!" <cricketislif...@web2news.net> wrote in
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> Pardon me but Who is Saggers?
>

Martin Saggers, plays for Kent.


Martyn Buckets

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May 20, 2003, 9:01:30 AM5/20/03
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i think that hes well worth a place in the test team.

Robert Henderson

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In article <20030520090130...@mb-m15.aol.com>, Martyn
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>i think that hes well worth a place in the test team.

Kevin Dean is another worth a go. RH

Tids

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"BERT B" <st...@harnetts.glowinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone else think he's worth a place in the test side?
> I know he's 31,but having seen him play regularly for the last three
years,I
> would have thought his performances would have merited a chance.
>
> Bert

I think he lost out on his chance as a result of
playing for a very unfashionable and not very
successful team. Now he's at Kent he has made
his mark but it might prove a little too late for him.

Tids

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Jan Buxton

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May 21, 2003, 9:08:00 PM5/21/03
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In news:3ecc1cf8$0$10754$cc9e...@news.dial.pipex.com,
Tids <wa...@dsl.pipex.com> was driven to type:

> "BERT B" <st...@harnetts.glowinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:ba8tik$gls$1...@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> Anyone else think he's worth a place in the test side?
>> I know he's 31,but having seen him play regularly for the last three
>> years,I would have thought his performances would have merited a
>> chance.
>>
>> Bert
>
> I think he lost out on his chance as a result of
> playing for a very unfashionable and not very
> successful team.

He lost out then because he wasn't good enough to get into the
unfashionable and unsuccessful side.

> Now he's at Kent he has made
> his mark but it might prove a little too late for him.

It's only since he's been at Kent that he's been a candidate.

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Mick Diddams

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May 22, 2003, 5:11:36 PM5/22/03
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On Thu, 22 May 2003 02:08:00 +0100, "Jan Buxton" <ja...@eidosnet.co.uk>
wrote:

Saggers version, as published in a Kent CCC newsletter, is, of course,
different, according to him he was not selected for many games at
Durham and got the impression his face did not fit there and that is
why he moved to Kent, so you pays your money and takes your choice of
the different stories on offer, but it does seem rather strange that
as soon as he arrived in Kent he became a vastly improved bowler...
(Another 4 wickets so far in latest game)...


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