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*Official* English Domestic Season Thread 2010

Jungle Jumbo

Jungle Jumbo

International Vice-Captain
Quality first round, results-wise. Not sure how high the standard of the batting can have been in certain places though.

Also all credit to Hampshire for going for the runs, they could easily have pulled out a bit earlier and not lost.
 
stumpski

stumpski

International Captain
Early days I know, but already I'm thinking it's just as well there's no restriction on the amount of alcohol taken into Championship games (put it this way, they never check the bags). By mid-season I may be taking a bottle of the hard stuff in with me and sit in the Lock Upper getting quietly smashed. I could end up like 'Shouty Man' in front of the gasometers. :-O
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
stumpski said:
The team that finished 16th out of 17 in 1978 maybe, but that was a case of good players under-achieving - we had people like Edrich, Roope, Younis, Jackman, Pocock and Butcher. Finished third the following season with virtually the same squad.
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I was wondering about the mid-1980's: an era when I genuinely cannot think of a single member of the side.
 
stumpski

stumpski

International Captain
Alec Stewart was still a full-time Surrey player then; also Trevor Jesty, Andy Needham, Jack Richards, Keith Medlycott ... useful players all if not exactly world-beaters.

The pace bowling was weak then certainly. Richard Doughty anyone?
 
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Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Martin Bicknell debuted in 1986 apparently. Still amazed at his FC average considering what he was like batting in Tests.
 
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Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Jungle Jumbo said:
Quality first round, results-wise. Not sure how high the standard of the batting can have been in certain places though.

Also all credit to Hampshire for going for the runs, they could easily have pulled out a bit earlier and not lost.
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Dismal losing though, should have easily manged to bat that out at the end, **** start to the season with Durham next we will have played 2 lost 2 unless there is some bad weather.
 
Uppercut

Uppercut

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RTD! Holy cow, what a guy. Not the first time he's pulled a victory out of his proverbial arse.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
stumpski said:
Alec Stewart was still a full-time Surrey player then; also Trevor Jesty, Andy Needham, Jack Richards, Keith Medlycott ... useful players all if not exactly world-beaters.

The pace bowling was weak then certainly. Richard Doughty anyone?
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I should've remembered Jack Richards - there's not been many keepers make Ashes hundreds. And I suppose I should have realised that Stewart was around then, albeit pretty young in the mid1980's. I'd forgotten about Medlycott - went to WI in 1990 didn't he? Jesty must have been about 40 - I still think of him as a Hampshire player first & foremost.
wrt Scaly's post, Bicknell must been still at school when he debuted in 1986. Perhaps his brother first appeared around then as well?

Again makes the point, given the potential catchment areas, the amount of talent actually produced by the club over the past 40 years has been dreadful.
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
Uppercut said:
RTD! Holy cow, what a guy. Not the first time he's pulled a victory out of his proverbial arse.
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RtD is easily the best non-test cricketer around. I know I'm biased, but this is a claim I can defend seriously.

Just wondering, have the Saffies ever tried to get him into their Test team? Not that they really need an all-rounder, with Kallis in, but still...
 
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Steulen

International Regular
Stapel said:
RtD is easily the best non-test cricketer around. I know I'm biased, but this is a claim I can defend seriously.

Just wondering, have the Saffies ever tried to get him into their Test team? Not that they really need an all-rounder, with Kallis in, but still...
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Depends on what you mean exactly. The best player playing for a country other than the Test nations, or the best current player not to have played Test cricket? If the latter, oooohhhh, big call.

But... what am I saying? Today is RTD day!

RTD
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
Steulen said:
Depends on what you mean exactly. The best player playing for a country other than the Test nations, or the best current player not to have played Test cricket? If the latter, oooohhhh, big call.
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Though I did mean the former, I can't seriously think which player is better than RtD, yet has never played a test.
 
marc71178

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Stapel said:
Though I did mean the former, I can't seriously think which player is better than RtD, yet has never played a test.
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I'd suggest quite a considerable amount to be honest - a county average of 41 with the bat and 36 with the ball is not actually that good.
 
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