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England learned that lessen with with Bairstow keeping....

So 1 x ODI. Hardly a big enough sample size I wouldn't have thought.

Head hasn't captained the country - so how then do we know Smith is a superior captain??

This. Was a great ton but I'd like to see him against a better attack on a different wicket to properly assess. Doubt he would have scored as easily against Bumrah etc.

He's not in a position to confirm or deny which option it is.....

Always was a bit of a weird unit..

Is Johnny a chance to regain his place in the English test side or has that ship sailed?

Similar to Geelong & Richmond supporters on-going shit fights you mean?

Has the Lankan captain tried anything, anything at all differently? Has been poor captaincy

Used to work with a guy who was a Port Adelaide supporter (or claimed to be) He used to get into me about 'Port his, Port that' etc etc.. I didn't mind that as supporter banter but this guy had absolutely NFI about 1) Port Adelaide FC and 2) AFL football in general. What made me realise that...

60,000 heads

Looks like a 1970’s English pop star

Absolute shame that international cricket lovers did not get to see Clive Rice play test cricket.

Tough one to critique Do you look at averages or impact? Individual stats (batting / bowling) or as a package? Botham is a prime example (even though I hate the Poms, he was my favourite cricketer growing up. And although retired years ago, probably still is). Averaged 'only' 33 with the...

...hit a bit by the A grade bowlers regularly (I was down in the C's then). Nothing serious, a few on the gloves; upper arms and in the ribs (which f*** hurt). The A grade bowlers smelt blood and I copped a lot of short stuff in the nets.....must be a fast bowlers mentality. Came to the...

Donald Dickie

Bock to GCS for money as they were a new club, as did David to GWS.

The fact that the cricket public never got to see the heights that the greats of the South African test could have achieved in the 1970's due to SAF banishment from test cricket: A quick look at the list: Eddie Barlow; 30 tests Barry Richards; 4 tests Graeme Pollock; 23 tests Mike Proctor; 7...

Agree Phat I'm not 100% sure what the OP's gripe is about. Used to work in an industry where I was transferred usually every 3-4 years to other towns with work. 90% of which were country towns (which was great as I'm a country lad originally anyway) Some of these towns had only 300 - 500...

In comps where you have to umpire yourself, young guys have to learn somehow. Agree that its not easy for young guys however.

Yeah we all know his influence on cricket in the early days No one disputes that But he doesn’t deserve to be in the best test X1 of the century.

Who the hell is Jafer Chohan?

Wisden lost me when they named WG Grace (test average of 32) as one of the openers in the test team of the century. I’ve already gone on about it on a different forum. Understand the impact he had on early cricket in England but it is the test team of the century, not the ‘who had the most...

Bit hard to get Umps in country cricket comps.

Unfortunately not every comp / association has their own umpires. And I already said that even with Umpires, there are shocking decisions made.

Great point. Never had to umpire our own games until playing C grade later in my career. Up until then however, we had neutral umpires and honestly, some of the decisions you would cop (or not get) were astonishing. In our association, think the Umps got $75 per Saturday for umpiring (which...

Was umpiring one day, with one of our U16's who was doing square leg to square leg. He had come up to the Seniors because we were short. One of our batsman attempted to hit their spinner back over his head, missed and was stumped by at least 2 yards. The young guy said not out and I...

...anything goes against them. I wouldn't hesitate to give one of our lads out if I thought it was out. Some of my teammates had the attitude that 'f** 'em, if they don't give them then we wont' but I always had a problem with that mindset, as IMHO taking that stance meant that you were no...

Whatever happend to Suzi Wilks?

Shared big partnership with Greg Blewett who got 125