How interesting will it be if Prior does no-more-than-OK-ish with the bat for the rest of this game and the Third (I refuse to call it Fourth), drops a couple of crucial catches then Ambrose keeps excellently and scores something of note, and crucial, in the Fourth?
Haha, indeed. I'll sdmit that Anderson probably bowled just a touch wide given the pitch conditions but he was really, really unlucky not to have Powell. It's not like he was 'chucking a Sidebottom' and bowling too short for the movement he was getting either.
Shocked to hear him playing 'Like A Virgin' earlier. Would have been better if he'd played it at the fall of a wicket instead of a drinks break though.
Very interesting, Ambrose looked OK in the summer just probably too many mistakes costing him, especially in the ODI format. I remember the ODI at Lords V New Zealand where he dropped the simplest catch you will ever see.
That's a risk Prior is willing to take, believing he's the better option.
Yeah, gives the impression he wasn't sure there was an edge, and if he's not sure then the umpire can't be.
Hmm, I think not TBH. Read is the best wicketkeeper in either format, and the best OD batsman available. Prior might just be the best First-Class batsman of wicketkeepers, but I'm still 100% to be convinced of his wicketkeeping calibre.
Prior is perfectly entitled to say there's more to life than cricket, I don't object to that at all. An accident waiting to happen behind the stumps is simply not acceptable IMO, there's no "balance" there, just imbalance. Your wicketkeeper must be competent. You then need to pick the best batsman of the competent wicketkeepers.
You're getting soft Richard; where's the rant about how Mustard only had one good season and was picked merely because he played well in one game which happened to be a final?
And a decent bit of turn as well, not to forget. Probably wouldn't have hit the stumps but for the turn.
It'd probably be wasted in a tour thread while a match is in motion. I always try to keep posts to 2 or 3 lines in said circumstances.
Are there no referals in this test?
Yeah, they couldn't set up everything they needed in time after the change of venue.
Nope, couldn't get the equipment down to the other ground on time.
This again
