Far Cough
3:49 Wed Jul 15
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Richie did the odd googly as well
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stewie griffin
3:47 Wed Jul 15
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Richie BENAUD was an old skool leggie.
Ian SALISBURY was just fucking shit
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Northern Sold
3:45 Wed Jul 15
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Blimey I remember salisbury taking 4 wickets against the Windies (IIRC).... 2 were full tosses and teh other two were the biggest long hops I have ever seen... one was almost on it's second bounce... old skool Leggie
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Grumpster
3:30 Wed Jul 15
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The clamour came from him having one good game against the Kiwi's in the first ODI with both bat and ball.
Fact he was average after that wasn't even remembered and we all know that our media is like. They go fucking mental after one decent game.
Same lot who think BFS is brilliant, so shows what they all know!!!
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stewie griffin
3:27 Wed Jul 15
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or Stewart DOWNING, to give him his real name
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Westside
3:26 Wed Jul 15
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I sometimes wonder if England are desperate to play/find a leg spinner just for the sake of it, rather than if any good or not. Bit like the England football team kept trying to find a naturally left footed left mid fielder, even if they were crap, with that left foot. Sort of left footed footballer versions of Ian Salsibury and Chris Schofield.
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stewie griffin
3:19 Wed Jul 15
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Don't really get the clamour for him, tbh Westside. He's taken less wickets at a higer average than Moeen over the last few years, and once the Kiwis figured him out (ie. after one game, 10 overs) they fared very well against him.
He'll be the replacement though, and probably should be. If you're worried about how many runs your number 8 can make, then you aren't picking the right batsmen.
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Westside
3:16 Wed Jul 15
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Don't see Rashid as a swap for Ali, seriously weakening the tail. I'd go down that route, if Ali unfit. Do think that Rashid won't do as well as people seem to think. Quite a few people wanted him selected ahead of Ali, for 1st test.
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Grumpster
3:09 Wed Jul 15
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I see that Ireland just lost to that monster cricketing nation Papua New Guinea.
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stewie griffin
2:07 Wed Jul 15
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It'll be Rashid.
And they'll take him apart.
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Northern Sold
2:06 Wed Jul 15
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4 Quicks and Root as back up then?? Suppose the Windies done it for about a decade
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Tommy Dickfingers
2:03 Wed Jul 15
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Not necessarily Sold0
Would leave the tail seriously exposed. Late call up for Bairstow at 6 with Stokes & Jos adding depth to the lower middle
Australia played themselves into trouble against Ali. Nothing dramatically served up that I reckon young Joseph could not offer up
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stewie griffin
1:59 Wed Jul 15
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Hope he makes it. Massive performance from Beard0 last week.
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Northern Sold
1:51 Wed Jul 15
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BEARD big dount for 2nd Test... imagine straight swap for Rashid?
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Northern Sold
12:21 Wed Jul 15
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Two of my fav Greig and Bill Lawry commentary's
BILL: `That's one of the best caught & bowled's you would ever want to see my friend, Mervyn Hughes the magnificent reflex catch to take on the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the crowd's gone wild, the Australian team's gone wild it's a great day for Australia and it's a great day for Victoria, a great day for the world and it's a great day for the great man Mervyn Hughes, the hero of the MCG I love him I want to boof him. Get him up here`.
Tony Greig: "Thank you Richie, what a magnificant one-day strip has been prepared here today, its a real credit to Dicky Road, Bob's your uncle, and his staff of groundsman! But take along at some of these cracks here, some of these are as big as the fucken grand canyon, and they could play real damage today with some of the batsmen. Turning now to the Weather wall, you can see that the wind is moving through the north-east at about 15 knots and out of my arse at about 20! All in all, it looks like it will be a pretty good gamer here today. Now its back to Richie in the central missionary postion!
Richie: Oh for fuck's sake Tony, its the central commentry position you pidgeon toed Pee brain!
and not forgetting the late great Richie B...
Richie: Rubbish Binny was left out by the Indian selectors last night, but no-one collected him. And the Indian team manager Madonna Can't Sing, made the announcement that he would in fact play for Mohhamed has a biggen, who apparently has a badly swollen foot, but i saw him in dressing room before, and it didn't look like a foot to me, it looked closer to eight or nine inches."
Richie: He was the next batsmen to come in, unfortuantly, he fell down one of those nasty cracks in the pitch that Tony warned us about before, and he hasn't been heard of since. A real bummer that."
Richie: Sleasy Wine Bars was the next batsmen to be dismissed when he was run out at the strikers end for 12. It was a real mix up between the batsmen. All sorts of confusion out there. Calls of yes, no, yes, no. And finally was run out. And rightly he was pretty pissed off at his batting partner, and proceeded to call him all sorts of names. 'Stupid curry-eating f*ckwit' was one of the comments that we picked up I think. And his batting partner was forced to retire hurt, very very hurt he was by those nasty comments."
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JustAFatKevinDavies
12:02 Wed Jul 15
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id agree soldo, its not just P though, Bumble tries too hard as well
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Northern Sold
11:59 Wed Jul 15
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He tries too hard to be funny and wacky... he's no Greig and Lawrie... now they were the Laurel and Hardy of cricket commentary
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Steve P
11:59 Wed Jul 15
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Jumped in someone's garden at Chelmsford to get the ball back though?
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Mr. Burns
11:57 Wed Jul 15
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Doesn't surprise me Bumble is a cunt. Northern obsessed simpleton that he is.
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Northern Sold
11:56 Wed Jul 15
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All ready for tomorrow Wooders?
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