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England v India (2nd test) Lords


If Ashwin was available this game would be over already. As it is we should still get a draw, umpires are usually desperate to get off when it’s dark and it looks pretty dark at the minute
 
Anderson out last ball of this day, Bairstow out last ball before tea, mental strength perhaps - good bowling too
Sea to Shining Sea said:
Im not sure if this is a wind up! Until his back was completely shot in 00/01 he was a world class opening batsman. Better than Strauss.
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Take Mcgrath out and Athers probably averages mid 40's
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
What?! Michael Atherton was an outstanding opening batsman. On iffy wickets, against some of the best new ball bowlers in the history of the game and in one of the most tumultuous times in English cricket Michael Atherton was superb.
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His 185* in South Africa was one of my greatest ever sporting moments. I wanted to see if he could survive and pretended to vomit upstairs to get the day off school sick. I went downstairs watching it all day, truly beautiful cricket at its most tense.
 
Nebula said:
I'm following the day on BBC's live feed. Never noticed they had a count for how many people are viewing the page live. Almost 152,000 on the cricket live update feed and they say test cricket is dying ;)
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Someone tell the ECB just as soon as they've crowned their The Hundred Super Duper World Champions at the weekend.

Our test setup is a shit show because our county setup is a shit show, with any quality cricket squeezed into April, May and September, and our best players barely playing any First Class cricket other than Test Matches, and that's all the doing of a governing body which has single-mindedly prioritised the shorter forms, and even made up its own even shorter form for additional money grubbing.

The cupboard is bare and the lack of matchcraft of those left keeps getting exposed for what it is.
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
Im not sure if this is a wind up! Until his back was completely shot in 00/01 he was a world class opening batsman. Better than Strauss.
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He was world class. It wast just his injury it was having to captain England during a very difficult period before central contracts and having no support mechanism in place to help him. Better than Strauss? Maybe its a good debate.
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
Im not sure if this is a wind up! Until his back was completely shot in 00/01 he was a world class opening batsman. Better than Strauss.
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He also played at a time when just about every other side had real quality opening bowlers. Some of the real great opening bowling partnerships played in that era. McGrath/Gillespie, Wasim/Waqar, Walsh/Ambrose, Donald/Pollock etc.
 
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