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  1. Bijed

    Marcus North

    Yeah, I think at the time people's frustration at him doing virtually nothing in between his big scores was pretty justified and it would be fair enough today too, except as you say, many teams would quite reasonably take the view that relatively frequent big scores in amongst rubbish is better...
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    Post here when you’ve just appeared on live TV

    I don't think it got shown live, but I made a brief appearance on camera as I walked the final stretch of Ten Tors. I was ready to fall asleep as I walked by that point, so I didn't actually notice the camera at all and was told by people who'd watched the news that evening that I'd been on
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    How do fifers and tenfers help to judge a bowler?

    I guess in theory a few bowlers who might otherwise be high up could have been randomly messed up by a match that started but then got rained off before they got a chance to do anything
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    How do fifers and tenfers help to judge a bowler?

    #irony
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    ***Official*** 5th Test at Old Trafford, Manchester - 10th-14th of September

    In that case, we'd be saying they were running away because they were losing/afraid of losing :ph34r:
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    Allan Donald vs Michael Holding

    Yeah, bowlers like Ashwin who are excellent in home conditions and anywhere from decent to really quite good away always get bashed disproportionately for the drop-off in performance away as it feels like a big comedown from their home performances. I don't get too much into the ATG debates on...
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    Official NZ in Bangladesh (5 T20s)

    Yeah, having many more series like this and the Aus one in the near future would be overkill, but I'd like to see more matches/pitches in general where a total which would typically be very low is in fact quite probably matchwinning. Ideally just randomly in the middle of an otherwise typical...
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    Most selfish act in international cricket history by an individual player

    I apologise for re-writing my post whilst you were typing this so it looks like you've answered a slightly different question!
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    Most selfish act in international cricket history by an individual player

    I wonder what the precise ruling is though - for example, if the scores are tied and you sky the ball and run one before it comes down, the game wouldn't be over until it lands as a catch could be taken. If in the event, the fielder takes the catch but it turns out they're stood on the rope as...
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    Most selfish act in international cricket history by an individual player

    Stokes' winning 4 at Headingley counted in full when the scores were tied, because he didn't run. I presume if Giles hadn't run (or was in the middle of the second when the ball hit the boundary, even) in your example, he'd have got the 4
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    ***Official*** 4th Test @ The Oval, London - 2nd-6th September

    Yeah, Indian fans - your team might be better at cricket than ours, but ours is better at conforming to our expectations :ph34r:
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    ***Official*** 4th Test @ The Oval, London - 2nd-6th September

    You must be putting them about 80/20 on top right now ;)
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    ***Official*** 4th Test @ The Oval, London - 2nd-6th September

    Yeah fair enough, he could easily have done better than Overton did in this test. Think I just react against meh bowlers suddenly getting talked up because of their extra pace of principle Not just with extra pace really, never a fan of a player getting talked up as an option just because they...
  14. Bijed

    England (and Wales) gloom, doom and recriminations thread

    Bairstow has another 40 or so tests in him, worth a shot
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    ***Official*** 4th Test @ The Oval, London - 2nd-6th September

    Given who our alternatives are samey-ness is the lesser of two evils imo
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    ***Official*** 4th Test @ The Oval, London - 2nd-6th September

    So we lost at Lord's and now we've lost because of Lord. Definite pattern emerging Well played India btw
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    Where do you stand on Steve Waugh vs Shane Warne debate (as people)

    They definitely can, but equally your best, most experienced long-standing players really should be upholding standards in every aspect of their game imo. It's one of those things where I'm not really sure where I'd draw the line in practice. It's probably silly to make a massive issue out of...
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    ***Official*** 4th Test @ The Oval, London - 2nd-6th September

    All this after our openers did well too... Been saying for years that we're way too reliant on our opening pair :ph34r:
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    ***Official*** 4th Test @ The Oval, London - 2nd-6th September

    Yeah, as a touring team, drawing a series is a sort of 'moral win' I guess, but not something a top level sports team should settle for when they're eminently capable of winning outright
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    ***Official*** 4th Test @ The Oval, London - 2nd-6th September

    I'm sure there's a lot of people who would be happy with 'just' retaining the trophy and it definitely counts for something, but if I were an Indian fan, I'd be very disappointed to go 2-1 up and not ultimately take the series against this English team Drawing the Ashes may have felt like more...

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