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SeamUp

International Coach
Who doesn't randomly think of Rod McCurdy? Though I occasionally confuse him with John Maguire.
Those Rebel guys are all the same.

Bloody hell he became the definition of journeyman. Played for 3 Provinces, 3 State sides & 1 County in the end.
 

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Those Rebel guys are all the same.

Bloody hell he became the definition of journeyman. Played for 3 Provinces, 3 State sides & 1 County in the end.
Also had the two 'Hs', Hogan and Hohns. Man have we produced a lot mediocre spin bowlers over the years.
 

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Lately whenever I go on cricinfo and see another avalanche of overnight T20 franchise scorecards (most of which feature the same 5 or 6 IPL franchise names transplanted onto various parts of the world map) I get flooded with this overwhelming sense of dread and loss.
You may feel better when MI Auckland make an appearance?
 

Burgey

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GAS is defo a cricket tragic when he randomly thinks about Rod McCurdy and NCN :laugh: Love it.
He'll be jealous to know I saw McCurdy play for Australia in a one dayer at the SCG in the early 80s (I think it was the 82/83 season).

Edit: was 84/85


I listend to Mark Howard's podcast i/v with TOTAB and he asked who he wished he'd spent more itme with looking back over his career. He said Kerry Packer, that he'd like to "know what motivated him" and I was thinking he was looking for insights into WSC or business, but then he said "he paid a few players to abandon the rebel tour to SA and play int eh 85 Ashes series - guys like Graeme Wood and Kepler Wessels. I want to know why he didn't pay Alderman, McCurdy and Rackemann!"
 
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Qlder

International Regular
I see James Vince, with family, is moving from England to Dubai after a series of attacks on his home in Hampshire.
Pretty silly really. Everything I read he thinks it was a case of mistaken identity so someone targeted his house twice thinking it was someone else's house. Understand the fear especially with young kids but no need to leave the country
 

Spark

Global Moderator
From everything I've read getting your home broken into affects a lot of people at a really profound, psychological level, and the sense of violation never goes away even if the rational answer is just that it was bad luck.

That's definitely a more understandable and sympathetic reason to decamp to Dubai than like 99% of Westerners have.
 

SeamUp

International Coach
Say hello to South Africa's 28th test cricketer, Brigadier General Robert Poore. Different times. Especially with his reply about Larwood. 😂

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Qlder

International Regular
Wow, Australia hold the WTC as best test team and are in the final of this year's WTC, but not a single Aussie player made the Wisden test team of the year, really?

Wisden’s Test Team of 2024: 1. Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2. Ben Duckett, 3. Kane Williamson, 4. Joe Root, 5. Harry Brook, 6. Kamindu Mendis, 7. Jamie Smith (wk), 8. Ravindra Jadeja, 9. Gus Atkinson, 10. Matt Henry, 11. Jasprit Bumrah (c).
 

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