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Thanks Cribb, that sounds alright.

How do you personally fund a Bet365 account?

I see there's not any faxing involved to get money out, which would be an upgrade from my existing agency. Not to mention the slightly better deal on the bets themselves. A small percentage of my betting here does filter through to my favourite organisation, NZC.

Cool, I don't really like reporting people but the reality is for whatever reason my style of posting tends to inflame people like that into throwing personal crap at me - in the past I've responded and I guess I'm a bigger dog in the fight, because I generally tend to be the one coming out of it with a ban.

Thank you! Great to see your love for tests.

skype

Not a problem at all. I'd prefer "The artist formerly known as Monk"!

You're up in ot

Morning...would you mind randomising the participants for the final round of the stats draft? I'm looking after it while Bagapath's working and I'm also in it.

Fair enough

Meant to reply to a post of yours yesterday and forgot and now the thread has moved on

Only a quick thought and don't wish to engage it on a philosophical level; you're a longevity man and I'm, well, not.

But re Cook V Strauss in ODIs. Could you ever see Cook being able to play an innings like Strauss did V India in the WC?

what did you post or read in december 2009?

I'm not as dumb as you think, I guess.

Nice. Yeah I concur. Not convinced either of them would average >20 though tbh.

What's skill absolutism?

Did I post something particularly clever

Why since December 2009?

Noted. My thanks.

Yeah you're right. And being on your own 7000 miles away makes you dwell as well. So in the aftermath of defeats to SL/India I read the CW threads and things couldn't be grimmer. Arguably Grecian was the one with the greatest sense of perspective amongst the England fans

I kinda feel we may look back in the future and see this summer as a huge turning point. A bit like the Anderson/Broad selections in NZ 08. May not have had immediate rewards but bore fruits for the long term. It's a different situation as there's no seniors ousted who would have outperformed the rookies in the short term here (except KP maybe) but in terms of building blocks I think we've laid them this season.

The only worry is how long Anderson goes for, but he looks as good as ever at the minute so I can see a couple more years from him and really if he stays fit we should still have Broad for longer than that. I still don't think he's peaked yet

HAha a it sucks that I'm here posting instead of sat watching cricket in the sun but hey it's raining anyway so looks like England saved me a wasted trip to Manchester

Thanks though. I know I'll always see positives more than most but I'm genuinely excited about where this side goes from here. A bit miffed we have such a long break without Tests tbh.

I stand by that post. Had my suggestion been implemented I would never have had a single CW ban