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I just read on Yahoo news that a team from Wirral was dismissed for 3 runs. 2 leg byes and one run off the bat by the number 11 batsman! Sounds like they need a bit of help from the KBGS local, eh Brian? Cheers.
Yes they play just down the road from me at Clatterbridge (M53 Junct 4). The bowler who took 6 of the wickets is only 17 !
It usually the 4 wkt taker who is Haslingtons star bowler. In my playing days I was often no 10 or 11 for Knowle Park Congs 2nd team, or else the scorer . We did win the 2nd team cup one year and I have a small trophy. One season I scored a total of 10 runs from 3 or 4 matches, for only once out (average 10) -it was a season we lost nearly all matches and I was second in the team averages !
To break the July Drought of posts. Not many comments on the Ashes this time as yet . As I support England and Mary the Australians I am suffering today .
Well we reight put t'Aussies in their place ! But our County team are running away with the County Championship too. All the more remarkable as they have been without several plays at different times due to players in the England squad
Agree with Alec about Hayles, Vince and Ballance, their aggregate average being only about 50 in the 4 tests against Pakistan. They're simply not up to the job, with Ballance's one decent score of 70 not enough to save him and the other 2 consistently nowhere.
"Interesting" to hear the pundits condemning those three only after the final test had been lost - something I (very much a non-expert) had been advocating since Lord's, despite 2 subsequent England victories.
Root's a different class, but needs to curb his limited-overs mind-set or he's in danger of becoming another Petersen.
With a Yorkshireman in charge and a Kiwi as no.2 English cricket must be in good hands eh?
Root is not a very common name.When I was at Parkwood primary and then the Open Air School at Braithwaite in 1945-46, there was a Fred Root from up Park Lane way.I wonder if there is a connection? Anyone out there know? Cheers.
Now, Terry, a friend of mine was in Australia in the 1970s - in a bar watching England play Australia in a Test Match. When she announced that she was rooting for England it caused great hilarity. Apparently it means something different in Australia.
It sure does Shaun. When I was a young fella in Geelong, Victoria, it was not unknown to see the initials NRNR on the back window of a blokes car. I had better let you work it out for yourself what the initials stood for! Cheers.
Your conundrum, Bill, reminds me of another car sticker I saw in Townsville which also had me beaten. "If it ain't on, it ain't on" .
I was reminded of it by Mrs May's "Brexit means Brexit
I also remember Arlott reading out a Surrey team, after the first 9, he said...'No 10 is Butcher, No 11 is Baker, and we all know who the twelfth man is , dont we?'
Thats better from Yorkshire today. Just need one more wicket to win by an innings (if it doesnt chuck it down tomorrow). This young seam bowler (well hes coming up 24) from Harrogate , Ben Coad looks good. Two 5 wkt hauls in this match and one in previous match !
Because few state schools are offering cricket in recreation classes and you never see kids laiking cricket in the street and parks, it is feared that the game will (if not already) become a class riddled game in the UK, played and peopled by public schoolboys.
To reverse the trend,initiation type activities are being promoted (tip and run) to raise interest in the game which kids claim they don't understand.
I can't see that working. Next they will be organising re-hashes of "Piggy" to get the feel of wood on wood.
Any suggestions for how to save the game?
What's going on in India at the moment? (maybe, by now, it has already gone on).
The pundits keep saying that the batting is rubbish. That would mean that India is just a bit less rubbish than England. Surely there must be something wrong with the pitch.
Now they've said that there's a break for dinner. No such thing in cricket. Lunch break and Tea break. It must be so late in India now that a break, if it's not a late tea break, would have to be a supper break.
All to do with money Doug. That new Indian stadium is completely open to the scorching sunshine.
Some 105,000 Indian cricket fanatics dying of heat stroke forget it. Also those IPL matches are rather short in duration. So you could play one starting at 6pm under floodlights -- as they normally do -- and be over by 9pm. And all televised. Whether the Anglos like it or not -- the centre of world cricket now resides in India. Though not in the classical five-day test sense that we love and appreciate. Or Don Mosey would.