robelinda
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235 wickets at 19??? He *must* have run over the chairman of selectors cat, twice. How is he not playing test cricket in place of Tsotsobe?
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Prince EWS
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He's known as a bit of a dickhead and a terrible, terrible fielder, plus his bowling looked gash when he played ODIs and T20s for South Africa. He should definitely be playing IMO but it's not too hard to see why he's been overlooked.
Ruckus
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Yeah I have no idea how their selection policies work, but if he is anywhere as good as his record suggests I'm not complaining!! Imagine an attack of Steyn, Morkel, Tahir + some other gun quick...We'd have nothing.
Ruckus
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He does have pretty poor OD and T20 records though. I imagine people who saw Copeland bowl in the PM's OD match would have thought he looked **** as well.
Prince EWS
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Yeah, he's a bit Copelandish in general. Doesn't really look much but keeps an immaculate line and moves the ball a bit in both directions; cleans up to stupid extents on bowling wickets. He's a little quicker than Copeland - low to mid 130s - and not quite as tall but they're similar bowlers otherwise.
He does have 30 wickets @ 12 playing in a competition that shouldn't have FC status which inflates his figures a little, but it's still an absolutely amazing record regardless. TT Boy was saying not long ago that he reckons he might finally debut soon because Kirsten, the new coach, rates him. As I alluded to before, the that he can't catch and that he doesn't err make friends easily have probably held him back more than anything; the fact that he looks a fair bit worse than he is and debuted internationally in a format he is poor in certainly didn't help though.
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Burgey
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andyc
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Will be annoyed if Ponting moves down the order to accomodate Marsh - normally a middle order bat - after he didn't do the same and made Khawaja - normally a top order bat - bat at 6.
Burgey
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True, though it's no longer his choice tbf.
adub
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Really? The rain in Kandy was about the only thing that's put a dampener on it really for me. Good test cricket for the most part, although the Lankan bats have been a bit below their best.
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Yep.
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Burgey
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Well presumably. I mean, he only hinted at it, didn't say the choice had been made.
Clarke at five floats my boat.