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Mark Boucher
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randle
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He shouldn't be playing for them anyway in my humble. Nowhere near good enough with the bat these days and I'd just force De Villiers to take the gloves. Even if he is a bit tired when it comes to batting he'd still be unreal.
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safcdccc
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out of the test series.
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terrible news, really liked Boucher. Cracking player.
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hawes mackem
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Pitty, was looking forward to see him behind the stumps for SA for the last time, an average of 30.30 is not bad for a wicket keeper over 15 years, 32 50s and 5 100s.
All the best boucher.
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mickey
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Brilliant keeper and a very talented batsman but I think his inpact on team spirit, morale and the proverbial dressing room will be most keenly missed by the Saffers.
Yeah, a good player who always seemed to play the game the right way.
Still love that look Donald gave him when he dropped Atherton though, looks like he's going to cry
7.26 in, this video is everything test cricket should be[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_4CBQk8Ibo&feature=related[/ame]
Mr Redknapp
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Yeah, a good player who always seemed to play the game the right way.
Still love that look Donald gave him when he dropped Atherton though, looks like he's going to cry
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That was the series! watching it as a 13 year old I realised years later that it was the start of England's road back to a good quality outfit they are today.
Wise Man Says
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It was a cracking series, we'd be starved for so long. They humped us at Lord's and we clung on 9 down at OT to get a draw then won at Trent Bridge (which had that brilliant Donald v Atherton passage) and at Headingley (one of the few times a 5 match series mustn't have ended at the Oval).
The last morning of that Headingley test was tense as we needed (IIRC) 2 wickets and I thought we'd blow it. We'd had them something like 20-5 chasing 220(ish) and they'd crept back into it but we finished them off on the final morning.
Funny to think that SA's captain and coach are from that series are both dead (Cronje and Woolmer).
Wise Man Says said:It was a cracking series, we'd be starved for so long. They humped us at Lord's and we clung on 9 down at OT to get a draw then won at Trent Bridge (which had that brilliant Donald v Atherton passage) and at Headingley (one of the few times a 5 match series mustn't have ended at the Oval).
The last morning of that Headingley test was tense as we needed (IIRC) 2 wickets and I thought we'd blow it. We'd had them something like 20-5 chasing 220(ish) and they'd crept back into it but we finished them off on the final morning.
Funny to think that SA's captain and coach are from that series are both dead (Cronje and Woolmer).
Gerry Liebenberg in that series was utter cack for them. Gough won the series with an LBW iirc.
Wise Man Says
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Aye, Ntini was given out IIRC. I think SA were pretty pissed off at the standard of umpiring in the series IIRC.
Similar story for me aged 12, the question from having started watching test cricket a couple of years before that wasn't "would England win" it was "how much will England lose by". When Gough took that final wicket at Headingley I just remember going absolutely mental.
Strange to think that back then, all home tests were live on the BBC, good times.
The Breen Machine
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One of my abiding memories from that series was how utterly abject he was, I don't think he got past 20 in 10 innings which is abysmal for an opener.
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