Richard
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Why have someone batting at nine when you can have someone good enough to bat at seven or even six?
It simply makes no sense.
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Geraint Jones... a forgotten hero?
- Thread starter The Masterplan
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It simply makes no sense.
Lillian Thomson
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Hmmnn. I assume the local library must have been closed.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Indeed - with hindsight, at least (can't say I wasn't a considerable advocate of him for near enough all his Test career). Jones was always a poor batsman, much as I always believed he had potential. Sadly, he just wasn't as good as I hoped he was.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
It's 24-hour. And I am capable of making other trips if one desired location is closed.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
That is true, although that theory also needs the availability of a genuine Test class wicket-keeper - at the moment that means Foster.
Lillian Thomson
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Unnecessarily eating into the £9,000 though if the car is required to get there.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Really? That squashes those rumours then.
Neil Pickup
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**** me, I really have stopped posting, haven't I?
He's another member on here...
Lillian Thomson
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Go back to posting as shortpitched713.
Mr Mxyzptlk
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He was capable of scoring reasonably for Kent though. He's forgotten how to do that.
Mr Mxyzptlk
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That's a more realistic forum name, IMO.
GIMH
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Well if you have bowlers good enough to bat at 7 and 8, then why not play a great keeper who can bat at nine? Now we all know Broad is not - at this point - good enough to play Test Cricket due to his bowling. But Flintoff is, and he is good enough to bat at seven.
Lillian Thomson
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The snag is finding the great keeper. I like to think that if Bob Taylor was around today he would be chosen and would bat at 8 or 9 but I have my doubts with the current selection policy. Foster's the only International class keeper available but he's not good enough to test the selectors resolve.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Probably yeah. I won't pretend to be an expect on wicket-keeping, as I have said before. A few years back, this situation would have had people screaming for Chris Read, ICL-aside I think there were issues with his keeping that meant he needed to offer more with the bat, though I wouldn't be averse to him having another crack.
That being said, Ambrose hasn't kept that badly as far as I can tell, and if he is to bat at 8, his average is definitely good enough for him to hold that position.
Let's be honest, any keeper we pick will score a ton early in their career and then slowly deteriorate
That being said, Ambrose hasn't kept that badly as far as I can tell, and if he is to bat at 8, his average is definitely good enough for him to hold that position.
Let's be honest, any keeper we pick will score a ton early in their career and then slowly deteriorate
The Masterplan
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True.. I did like Paul Nikson behind the stumps in the Twenty20 world cup though, he was very vocalLet's be honest, any keeper we pick will score a ton early in their career and then slowly deteriorate
The Masterplan
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I new I should of looked it up before I posted.. makes me look like a right prat