marc71178 said:He should bowl it flat.
Flat spin rules![]()
gibbsnsmith said:as i live in england i have too much despair in the state of englands cricket allround so im not going to bother about it for a couple of minutes instead ive just noticed that craig has had a shave...
gibbsnsmith said:aah...when will england ever become strong enough to beat australia....that will be a truly , a truly , a truly bizarre day
If I were you in that situation then I would already have turned round and given the "coach" a volley of abuse.gibbsnsmith said:i thionk it all begins with the failure of the youth systems...over here..its first come first serve to get into clubs, nothing about ability every match the batting order is turned upside down...and the state of the pitches is absolutely poor...whereas in AUS, its said that kids play only in artifical pitches to gain experience and knowlege so the bounce and movement and pace wouldt be too much of a variable..where as england its im quoting a coah in my club
" ok, mate youve got two choices, 1] bang it in and scare the sh*t out of the batter or 2] try your f****** hardest to keep it on the off stump and not give him any room...allright otherwise im gonna tell the Jay to take you out, got that?"
he was talking to one of our pacemen who wasnt even bowling that badly infact he reminds me on flintoff in his action and results, he just gets hit unluckily for fours now and then [usually of edges] ..and Jay is the captain, Jay is short for Jerome [me]
anyways the district coahes arent alot better if at all, they have one aim and that is to win nothing at all about strategies or help with skill and techniques, they just organize everything and expect the club coaches to train us..
im absolutley applaed at this and actually want to know if this is commion practice and if i am out of place to complain...
Can't work out why though - he's only played once and got wickets - so why not select him when others are injured or struggling?!Neil Pickup said:Johnson is fit enough to play for Somerset, but not England, afaik.
I've worked it out - it's a long term plan.Rik said:He bowled 27.4 overs the other day, the most by any Somerset bowler in that innings. I think he's fit enough for England. I think England have just decided to ignore him instead.
You're trying to logically work out what the selectors are thinking? Have you learnt nothing over the course of the summer? :Pmarc71178 said:Can't work out why though - he's only played once and got wickets - so why not select him when others are injured or struggling?!
It all depends on how good the replacements for the current batsmen really are.Jacques Rudolph said:Realistically I would give them about 20-30 years.. The whole cricketing cultures are miles and miles apart, and it will take that long to repair the damage...
They've been driven insane by puffing the magic dragon?marc71178 said:Well, has anyone got a better answer?![]()
Neil Pickup said:If I were you in that situation then I would already have turned round and given the "coach" a volley of abuse.
As a coach myself I would never hope to take an aggressive approach towards a player - and a junior player, too - unless he had a huge personality/attitude problem and/or blatantly wasn't trying - not in that case for certain.
In defence of district coaches - I know the NE Lincs coach is nothing like that but I can't speak for the rest of the country. I know from painful experience that a lot of other teams seem to have an attitude of victory through whatever means possible - great big slogs mostly - rather than the development of cricket and playing proper shots..
Your "coach" has probably broken the ECB Coaches' Code of Conduct in more than one place so you are well within your rights to complain.
He could do well to remember that it's a lot easier for a coach to destroy a player than to improve him.
As for pitches, I've seen some dismal artificials and excellent grass pitches as well as grass wickets that make you soil your pants and artifical paradises.
Jacques Rudolph said:Realistically I would give them about 20-30 years.. The whole cricketing cultures are miles and miles apart, and it will take that long to repair the damage...