Black Wednesday: English Home Tests - Now Exclusive to SKY

[SpaceMonkey]

Space Monkey Worcester are part of the best club cricket league in England... the talent is there

Where is it?
Who have Worcestershire produced lately that have gone on to play for England??

Kabir and Kadeer Ali were nicked from Warks. Hick was imported from Zimbabwe (jesus id hate to think where worcs would be without Hick! for the last 10 years or so). Batty was a surrey reject.
Compare that to the battery of bowlers / batsmen that Lancashire / Surrey and Yorkshire have produced for England. Its embarrising. Even the ones that don't really make if for England are usually better than your average cricketer.
Solanki is the only one i can think of. But he's hardly played to the potential we all know he has (and its rapidly becoming too late for him now). He could hardly make the Worcs team a 12-18 months ago due to his poor form.
Along with Solanki, Steve Davis is the only promising youngster (thats just to play for Worcs yet alone make it for England) we've produced for as long as i can remember, and its still too early to tell if he'll make it.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Don't forget Durham either who produced England's best bowler for well over a decade and probably the best fielder in the World (Collingwood is basically a specialist sub-fielder for Test side as well)

 

[Neil Pickup]

Space Monkey Worcester are part of the best club cricket league in England... the talent is there

Why can't I find it on play-cricket.com, then?

 

[sledger]

Why can't I find it on play-cricket.com, then?

you obviously arent looking hard enough

 

[Richard]

That's interesting, apparently all 18 counties are financially secure!

Not for very long, though - in 2010, I have my doubts.

 

[Richard]

Don't forget Durham either who produced England's best bowler for well over a decade and probably the best fielder in the World (Collingwood is basically a specialist sub-fielder for Test side as well)

We'll see if Harmison is England's best bowler for well over a decade.
All he's done is have one of the best 3 months you'll ever see... since July, he's had 3 terrible Tests, 1 half\half one and 1 sensational one.
And if he really thinks Collingwood is the best fielder in The World he's seriously biased!

 

[marc71178]

Not for very long, though - in 2010, I have my doubts.

Not even at the moment are they all secure.

 

[marc71178]

All he's done is have one of the best 3 months you'll ever see...

So good that they lasted for about 8.

 

[Langeveldt]

And if he really thinks Collingwood is the best fielder in The World he's seriously biased!

Have to agree with you there.. What of Herschelle, Ricky Ponting, Andy Symonds etc?

 

[Scaly piscine]

I wouldn't say any of those are better than Collingwood, and I'm glad Motson disagrees because that's like someone knowledgeable agreeing.

 

[sledger]

regardless of bias or not collingwood is ONE of the best fielders and must rank somewhere high up in the list of best... shame his bowling or batting isnt as good as that really, he would have made a nice addition to the test team, a replacement for butcher or thorpe(eventually, not yet though hes to valuable) although realistically poor old colly has fallen behind bell and (christ no) key in the pecking order at the moment.

 

[Scaly piscine]

That's one of the things about Test cricket, fielding isn't valued as much as batting & bowling. If you looked at it this way: Colly would probably average 30-35 in Test cricket with the bat and would make up the difference with his fielding - especially compared to someone like Thorpe or Butcher. Trouble is his first two Tests were a hiding to nothing, he did well in the first one in the context of the game but England were playing for a draw early on in both of the Tests.

 

[Richard]

So good that they lasted for about 8.

You've got a case if this Test goes on to be a good one, but before it his last 5 Tests had produced 3 shockers and 1 half-half.
If he'd had another poor game here there'd have to be serious questions asked. Doesn't look likely ATM, though.

 

[Richard]

I wouldn't say any of those are better than Collingwood, and I'm glad Motson disagrees because that's like someone knowledgeable agreeing.

I'm glad this one's over-using his stupid clichés again.

 

[Langeveldt]

I'm glad this one's over-using his stupid clichés again.

it was actually really good.. i love cliches like that..

 

[Richard]

What on Earth's so good about repeatedly referring to me as John Motson, and repeating the quite-clearly baseless (as you yourself and just about everyone else on the forum acknowledges) "he doesn't know a thing about cricket" then?

 

[Tom Halsey]

I wouldn't say any of those are better than Collingwood, and I'm glad Motson disagrees because that's like someone knowledgeable agreeing.

Erm... what the hell?

 

[Richard]

The idiot refers to me as "Motson" (one of his tired clichés) and says he's glad I don't concur with him because he is under the misguided notion that I don't know a thing about the game.