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07-11-2024 , 10:43 AM
ol' jimmy anderson opening the bowling for the last time... we'll miss him when he's gone :-(
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07-11-2024 , 06:43 PM
Anderson still the best bowler in England..
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07-11-2024 , 08:22 PM
I’ve never agreed with the ‘picking for the future’ argument and it’s extension the ‘can’t pick for xxx because he won’t be around for yyy’

Test caps should be earned. Pick the best players until they’re not the best and then pick the best replacement. Sure you can rotate for health/preservation reasons but cutting careers short isn’t something I agree with.
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07-12-2024 , 12:42 PM
Jimmy basically the anti-Warner in that regard
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07-13-2024 , 05:24 AM
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I’ve never agreed with the ‘picking for the future’ argument and it’s extension the ‘can’t pick for xxx because he won’t be around for yyy’

Test caps should be earned. Pick the best players until they’re not the best and then pick the best replacement. Sure you can rotate for health/preservation reasons but cutting careers short isn’t something I agree with.
Hard agree here, Jimmy still has a year or 2 left in him
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07-13-2024 , 11:04 AM
You shouldn't be picking for the future in tests unless the difference is small. But Difference between Jimmy and the rest of still pretty wide. His consistency is insane and you can still rotate in young guys as he's not playing every test these days. I'm fine with picking for future in OD cricket because these old guys can still go play T20 leagues and bank money. McCullum and co are too worried about the Ashes already. Aussies living rent free in their head
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07-24-2024 , 04:48 PM
Still persisting with this Hundred bs, get rid of it lol
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07-24-2024 , 04:56 PM
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Still persisting with this Hundred bs, get rid of it lol
They'll sell it, more money will bring bigger players and it will be up there with all the other franchise nonsense
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07-24-2024 , 05:37 PM
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They'll sell it, more money will bring bigger players and it will be up there with all the other franchise nonsense
I don't care. It's a unique format, and that's not a compliment.

Don't get me started on the on-screen graphics.
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08-05-2024 , 05:41 AM
RIP Graham Thorpe. Only 55
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08-05-2024 , 06:04 AM
Yep, sad. Wasn’t aware of an illness?
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08-05-2024 , 07:36 AM
Damn, rip

One of my favorites as a kid.
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08-05-2024 , 01:41 PM
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Yep, sad. Wasn’t aware of an illness?
He had a serious illness a couple of years ago, not sure what.

RIP. A fine player and that is far too young.
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08-05-2024 , 02:35 PM
Gutted.
A 21 year old Thorpe playing for Farnham smashed 16 year old me, playing for Guildford, all around the park. What a player amd what a lovely guy.
This one really cuts deep.
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08-13-2024 , 05:11 PM
Suicide talk
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Yikes, some dark stuff out tbere about Thorpe jumping in front of a train to commit suicide and his previous illness was just the result of a failed suicide attempt.
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08-13-2024 , 05:15 PM
Yep. The Black Dog is a mean and relentless enemy
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08-30-2024 , 08:29 PM
Gus Batkinson
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08-31-2024 , 02:41 AM
In taking five wickets in an innings, 10 in a match and now scoring a century, Atkinson has a place on all three Lord’s honours boards after only five days of playing Tests at the home of cricket.

very cool
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08-31-2024 , 10:43 AM
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another hundred for england's greatest test batsman
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lol

He’s a fantastic batsman but he’d barely make the all time top order if at all.

Hobbs
Hutton
Sutcliffe
Hammond
Barrington

then you’d have to argue him v Cowdrey, May and maybe Gower
****ing gower
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08-31-2024 , 04:17 PM
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****ing gower

I do think he’s ahead of the other three tbh and he would fit very nicely in at 5 in that order with Barrington at 6
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08-31-2024 , 06:30 PM
Was waiting for a train in pub just outside Euston earlier when someone walks in wearing an MCC tie and one of those silly hats that members often wear. I ask him how the cricket finished to which his reply was "they went off for bad light". I kind of wanted to know the result or state of play but thanks anyway
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08-31-2024 , 06:54 PM
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I do think he’s ahead of the other three tbh and he would fit very nicely in at 5 in that order with Barrington at 6

He = Root
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09-01-2024 , 06:04 AM
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Was waiting for a train in pub just outside Euston earlier when someone walks in wearing an MCC tie and one of those silly hats that members often wear. I ask him how the cricket finished to which his reply was "they went off for bad light". I kind of wanted to know the result or state of play but thanks anyway
In case nobody told you yet, England are ahead

Sri Lanka are 2 down for 50 odd chasing 483
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09-03-2024 , 04:09 PM
Pakistan fans must be at an all time low right now.

It other news Bazball is now available in white as well as red.
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09-07-2024 , 02:12 PM
Chris Woakes bowling spin was a laugh.
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