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Since his debut in 2005 he has scored a Test Match century in every calendar year I believe.
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The Second Investec Ashes Test, England v Australia, Lords
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Since his debut in 2005 he has scored a Test Match century in every calendar year I believe.
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Root just completed 1000 first class runs this season. 70 not out today.
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What do you think push for runs now and put them in for an hour tonight or build up the runs slowly until tea tomorrow if we can last that long then let them have a go ?
No definetly more than a shadow of doubt there. Not out.
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loving the text commentary on sportinglife.... :
Over 66 - England 132-4 (Root 74, Bell 1)
"This is more like it, isn't it? After the madness of the first seven days in this series, here at last is one to sort the men from the T20 lightweights. The sort of day when you can have six Pimm's, sleep for three hours, and not really miss anything. Proper Test Cricket. A Day For The Purists. Bell off the mark with a single. Another drink? Don't mind if I do. Now where's that paper, Sudoku won't solve itself. Root miscues a pull shot off Watson, and there's no run."
Over 66 - England 132-4 (Root 74, Bell 1)
"This is more like it, isn't it? After the madness of the first seven days in this series, here at last is one to sort the men from the T20 lightweights. The sort of day when you can have six Pimm's, sleep for three hours, and not really miss anything. Proper Test Cricket. A Day For The Purists. Bell off the mark with a single. Another drink? Don't mind if I do. Now where's that paper, Sudoku won't solve itself. Root miscues a pull shot off Watson, and there's no run."
I thought his fingers were underneath it and that he clung on with the ball wedged between two of them. I'd have given it, personally.
spring hall convert
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We know that 3rd umpire is notoriously dodgy for catches carrying & always has been so why do they persist with it? It was out.
Not complaining mind you.
Not complaining mind you.
darters74
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Wow, what an achievement!
If they f.ucked Shane Warne off out of the commentary box on Sky then yes ok they can have the wicket for all the difference it will make.
Am going to have to turn the volume off if he doesn't stop going on.
That's superb.
spring hall convert
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Cook, Bell & Prior have gone full calendar years without making centuries. Bairstow's yet to make one. I think it serves to illustrate that he's been fairly consistent over his career and hasn't gone through a major loss of form.
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darters74
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Fair enough, but he is the most prone to getting out to a stupid shot like last night when he went fishing.
spring hall convert
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Yes and he's also scored 7000 test runs at an average a smidgen under 50. Would you also advocate having Compton in the team ahead of him?
darters74
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Not at all. Don't get me wrong, he is our most exciting player and is great to watch. Truth is, he is such a talent, that's what frustrates when he gets out cheaply to poor shots.
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Only one player scored runs all the time, Don Bradman. It's easy to forget that these guys are mere mortals. In my lifetime only Gooch, Cook, Gower & Stewart (perhaps) come close to doing it with his level of consistency over a protracted period.
He's also fairly handy in ODI's & T20. I just can't stand it when people question his worth to the team. We've got 4 grinders in Cook, Root, Trott & Bell (to a lesser extent.) We can afford his extravagence.