Lyndhurst 14
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Fairly predictable response. At the school I went to the only people who played cricket were the ones who weren't good enough to get picked for the footie teams. I rest my case.
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The case for recalling Michael Vaughan as England test captain
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Fairly predictable response. At the school I went to the only people who played cricket were the ones who weren't good enough to get picked for the footie teams. I rest my case.
Papa Lazarou
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Like Joe Gatting?
vegster
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M.V. , Lovely bloke, smashing chap and in his day good batsman and captain. We have moved on, Strauss is still learning and can be forgiven for his declarations... who would have thought that the West Indies have learned to make 5 day pitches ?
Worry more about the bowling, Harmison is a busted flush, Anderson,Sidebottom and Broad do not spark much fear as, apart from the odd occasion, none get much movement off the seam or swing on a consistant basis. Monty will whirl away but does not inspire worry amongst batsmen like a Murali or a Warne or even Vettori. We lack the ability to bowl teams out once most of the time, let alone twice in a match.
oh, besides, he still has that glass knee and as such we would have to hide him and Panasar in the field and I think there will be alot of leather chasing when the Aussies get here..
Worry more about the bowling, Harmison is a busted flush, Anderson,Sidebottom and Broad do not spark much fear as, apart from the odd occasion, none get much movement off the seam or swing on a consistant basis. Monty will whirl away but does not inspire worry amongst batsmen like a Murali or a Warne or even Vettori. We lack the ability to bowl teams out once most of the time, let alone twice in a match.
oh, besides, he still has that glass knee and as such we would have to hide him and Panasar in the field and I think there will be alot of leather chasing when the Aussies get here..
Uncle Buck
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Tend to find the people that hate cricket are those that do not have the staying power to watch a game for more than 90 minutes or lack the intelligence to understand the game.
keaton
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Because saying cricket is boring is original and thought-provoking?
Because where i went to school is was only the gays that didn't like cricket
Lyndhurst 14
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Nothing at all to do with staying power or intelligence – just could never be arsed to waste a day watching a pastime (any one who plays this and thinks it’s a sport is sadly deluded) which makes watching paint dry exciting.
Uncle Buck
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Point proved and case closed.
Paxton Dazo
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Silent Bob
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Could you elaborate?
Storer68
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but its more exciting than baseball.
Lyndhurst 14
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Thought we were discussing cricket - but I would agree baseball is equally boring and pointless but the baseball matchday experience is more exciting, the Yanks just do that sort of thing with way more style than the Brits.
sten_super
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It may, in your opinion, be more exciting, but I'll bet it's not more ALCOHOLIC.
Lyndhurst 14
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Unfortunately you’re correct about that but most Brits do their best to maintain our binge drinking reputation– it’s not easy though as the strength of the average beer on sale at any US sports event is about 3% and how many pints of Bud / Coors shite can you really drink. Better to wait until after then go to one of the craft brew pubs.
Pavilionaire
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I see Duncan Fletcher agrees with my original post!
Storer68
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Pavilionaire
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Ha ha!
Yeah, you're right, Flower's doing a great job, like Moores before him.
Yeah, you're right, Flower's doing a great job, like Moores before him.
So the guy who was sacked as coach agrees with you - I would have thought that was a negative factor. Or perhaps you eagerly read Steve McClaren's opinion as to what Capello should do with the England football team.
Pavilionaire
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No you're right Gwylan - why should the opinion of the only coach we've had that's won in the Ashes in the last 22 years count for anything...
public school boy
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England lack a match winning bowling attack at the moment Strauss or vaughan as captain makes no difference.not much chance of winning the ashes back this summer i fear
Uncle Buck
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Some truth there. Somehow Gibson needs to get the best out of Harmison, which is not happening.
Oddly, Anderson bowled well in the Windies for no reward and Broad got better as the series went on and Swannn suddenly looks a class act. However none of them are strike bowlers.
England need Hoggard to start the season well and Jones to play a couple of months with no injuries, otherwise we could be going back to that fool Mahmood, which would not be good.