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*Official* English Domestic Season Thread 2010

Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

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Malan scoring runs and South African background.

To be named in an England squad in 3... 2...

Also because of his peculiar record it'll clearly be for one-day games first.

Durham players will continue to be ****ed over in the meantime. But you all knew that anyway. MCC 102-5 now.
 
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Sir Alex

Sir Alex

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Manee said:
BCCI have just revoked NOCs for Sehwag and Chawla.
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Agree with sehwag's. Not with chawla's. Is the latter contracted by indian board? If not that's poor. He would've benefited from the rigour and discipline as well as the opportunity to pawn some english guys and boost his confidence.
 
Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

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Because the teams are clearly being picked on merit when guys who average 35+ with the ball are shoe-ins whilst a Durham guy comes in and looks a cut above and mysteriously gets dropped not once but twice, despite the best efforts of the captain to give him as little opportunity as possible to bowl, particularly with the new ball. And it's not like Durham have a ****load of bowlers who are light years ahead of the other county sides whilst occasionally scraping as much as one player in the Test bowling lineup.
 
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Furball

Furball

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Scaly piscine said:
Because the teams are clearly being picked on merit when guys who average 35+ with the ball are shoe-ins whilst a Durham guy comes in and looks a cut above and mysteriously gets dropped not once but twice, despite the best efforts of the captain to give him as little opportunity as possible to bowl, particularly with the new ball. And it's not like Durham have a ****load of bowlers who are light years ahead of the other county sides whilst occasionally scraping as much as one player in the Test bowling lineup.
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Onions, yes, treated abominably by the selectors.

Harmison - serial failure in England colours.

Davies - constantly injured

Plunkett - picked as a reserve after a stellar season.

1/4. Must do better.
 
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Pothas

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Scaly piscine said:
Because the teams are clearly being picked on merit when guys who average 35+ with the ball are shoe-ins whilst a Durham guy comes in and looks a cut above and mysteriously gets dropped not once but twice, despite the best efforts of the captain to give him as little opportunity as possible to bowl, particularly with the new ball. And it's not like Durham have a ****load of bowlers who are light years ahead of the other county sides whilst occasionally scraping as much as one player in the Test bowling lineup.
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Jesus, doesn't that chip on your shoulder get pretty heavy after a while?

Should just be glad that Matthew Hoggard does not play for Durham or we really would hear about it.
 
Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

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GingerFurball said:
Onions, yes, treated abominably by the selectors.

Harmison - serial failure in England colours.

Davies - constantly injured

Plunkett - picked as a reserve after a stellar season.

1/4. Must do better.
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Serial failure except he pisses all over Broad and Anderson's record. So what does that make those two?

Davies - constantly lightly years ahead of any other bowler in county cricket. As if there aren't other players being selected who are constantly injured.

Plunkett got the standard fob-off call-up that meant nothing as he didn't get a game. Same as Davies. Both mysteriously leapfrogged by inferior players.

Blackwell should be in the limited overs squads and is a much better option than Tredwell for the Test squad.
 
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Pothas

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Scaly piscine said:
Blackwell should be in the limited overs squads and is a much better option than Tredwell for the Test squad.
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Do actually agree with this one, but one feels that is down to him being slighlty rotund rather than playing for a certain county.
 
Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

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The Blackwell who plays for Durham has changed a fair bit from the one who played for Somerset. When you're his size it's pretty difficult not to look slightly rotund.

If these guys played for a mediocre county, ie one of the other 17, then they'd stand out and for most of those counties there'd be the media and other people hammering at the doors of the selectors to get the players in the side.
 
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Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

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zaremba said:
Yes, and I daresay the key change you have discerned in him is that he now plays for the team you support...
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He's gone to a hard-working and ambitious club that plays proper cricket. Obviously as a Sussex fan you wouldn't recognise the latter part.
 
TT Boy

TT Boy

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Seems the pink ball is good for the spinners. 18 wickets so far, 9 of them to the leggies and Di Venuto has said it’s very difficult for batsman to distinguish the seam. Could spell the end of tail-end resistance in the future which may be a good thing.
 
zaremba

zaremba

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Scaly piscine said:
Ah you mean when Mushtaq Ahmed essentially bowled teams out single-handedly. Yea real team effort that. Sussex helped to produce Prior and that's about it.
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Well you're right in saying that Mushtaq was a wonderful overseas player, nothing wrong in that as I imagine Huss Diva Benk Shiv and co
would agree. As for the rest, well, I think we've had some pretty good players other than Mushy too: Lewry Kirtley RMJ Adams Goodwin Prior among others.

Anyhow you're on top now, enjoy it while it lasts, these are indeed
heady days for a minor county like Durham
 
Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

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For me a big part of supporting Durham goes beyond just winning titles. When the absolutely clueless muppets picking the England team do their job properly Durham will be a big part of England's success as well. They've built things from the ground up, not just got lucky here or there or a bit of a flash in the pan. Not only have you got the undoubted quality in the seam department you've got guys like Stokes and Borthwick coming through at 18/19. Sure in the future teams like Surrey might buy their way to success, but I think people are going to have to get used to Durham winning County Championships and looking in this direction for England players.
 
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