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Any changes for the 5th Test
- Thread starter Cornsay62
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Silly Point
Striker
Where's your Poster of the Year thread gone mate? 
Might as carry on to the end , Is there a modern day Colin Cowdrey
Aidan11
Striker
Where's your Poster of the Year thread gone mate?
Disappeared along with that mystery cricketer.
The Greenies have issued a 2 point penalty to expire in February.No sign of Xmas spirit. I'm planning a party with Trotsky,Stalin , Orwell and Mao Tse. . Might take a vacation until the Uni gameWhere's your Poster of the Year thread gone mate?
I wonder why
Enjoy Xmas Hawksy .Let's hope you and the gang get a personality and SOHI wonder why
Well that’s just a bit rudeEnjoy Xmas Hawksy .Let's hope you and the gang get a personality and SOH
May I suggest a wee dram of Dunkirk Spirit with your Xmas lunch .
The Breen Machine
Striker
I got a month ban for jokingly suggesting we set Tim Bostock's car on fire. Unfortunately it expired just in time for the Ashes.
TallPaul
Midfield
But we could have Bash and Bishop together in the team
nowtgoodeverhappens
Striker
I’m going 63 all out
If you’re prepared to add a batter who isn’t in the squad, why not a spinner? They’re just as easy to put on an aeroplane!
Southern Monkey
Central Defender
Atkinson will be out so Potts deserves a game. I’d also play Bashir. I think it’s fair and reasonable to use the squad, the Aussies are far from full strength and Sydney whatever anyone says is a dead rubber. Of course you want to win and you could argue careers are on the line, but I don’t think there’s anything we can learn about the players we have they are known forces now !
Dead rubber is a tennis term from the now obsolete Davis cup format, for matches that were played under the different rules to the live rubber matches and that no one cared about at all. It has crept fairy fairly recently into cricket. I don’t think it’s appropriate to the tradition of test cricket.
The Sydney test will be played to exactly the same rules and count in exactly the same way. as the other four. It will be included when it comes to the cumulative numbers in England Australia win loss stats. Without an asterisk. It will count exactly the same as the other four when it comes to the individual batting and bowling averages. It will count exactly the same as the other four when they print the series results score line in the history books. It will count exactly the same as the other four, for those that care about such things, when it comes to having 12 WTC points at stake.
It is obviously true that once a series winner is settled there is a tendency by the winning side to take the foot off the gas. Although one of the things that marks the recent Australians is that they still win. But it has never been true that the test matches that happen after a series is settled have any formal reduced value. I doubt if even the most nerdy former player could tell you how many of their runs or wickets were achieved in matches where a series was alive and how many weren’t. A test match is a test match is a test match. And a test match isn’t a rubber.
The Sydney test will be played to exactly the same rules and count in exactly the same way. as the other four. It will be included when it comes to the cumulative numbers in England Australia win loss stats. Without an asterisk. It will count exactly the same as the other four when it comes to the individual batting and bowling averages. It will count exactly the same as the other four when they print the series results score line in the history books. It will count exactly the same as the other four, for those that care about such things, when it comes to having 12 WTC points at stake.
It is obviously true that once a series winner is settled there is a tendency by the winning side to take the foot off the gas. Although one of the things that marks the recent Australians is that they still win. But it has never been true that the test matches that happen after a series is settled have any formal reduced value. I doubt if even the most nerdy former player could tell you how many of their runs or wickets were achieved in matches where a series was alive and how many weren’t. A test match is a test match is a test match. And a test match isn’t a rubber.
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