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View Willo's Profile Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 06 Dec 17 4.31pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by YT

I think England should do what we used to do at my old sports club in Crayford; have a Footballers v Cricketers series.

England cricket team v England football team at cricket on one date and then at football a few days later. Both teams could then find their true level.

Joe Hart used to be a very young promising cricketer with Shrewsbury CC and he was also in the Worcestershire youth squads.
I believe Phil Neville was on the books of Lancashire CCC.
Steve Ogrizovic played cricket for Shropshire.

 

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Originally posted by Willo

Joe Hart used to be a very young promising cricketer with Shrewsbury CC and he was also in the Worcestershire youth squads.
I believe Phil Neville was on the books of Lancashire CCC.
Steve Ogrizovic played cricket for Shropshire.

Denis Compton was a handy footballer - can't imagine Arsene being too thrilled if he went off and played cricket in the summer now.

 

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View Willo's Profile Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 06 Dec 17 4.42pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by chris123

Denis Compton was a handy footballer - can't imagine Arsene being too thrilled if he went off and played cricket in the summer now.

Yes absolutely right about Compton's footballing prowess.
I think he finished his football career before I was born.

 

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Originally posted by Willo

Yes absolutely right about Compton's footballing prowess.
I think he finished his football career before I was born.

And Leslie.

 

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View Willo's Profile Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 06 Dec 17 4.57pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by chris123

And Leslie.

Of course !
I think he played a lot of games for Arsenal but like Denis I think all before I was born.

 

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View Stuk's Profile Stuk Flag Top half 06 Dec 17 5.15pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

Originally posted by chris123


Thank you Mr Stuk and cheers!

Drowning of sorrows would perhaps be more apt.

 


Optimistic as ever

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Online Flag 06 Dec 17 5.18pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Is Cook's time drawing to an end.

 


'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

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View chris123's Profile chris123 Flag hove actually 06 Dec 17 5.24pm Send a Private Message to chris123 Add chris123 as a friend

Originally posted by Stuk

Drowning of sorrows would perhaps be more apt.

We were rubbish - and I like Joe Root as a cricketer, but not as skipper, was never convinced by Cook either. We play Test cricket like a one day match and our bowlers don't pitch the ball just short of a length nearly often enough.

 

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 06 Dec 17 6.24pm Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by chris123

We play Test cricket like a one day match and our bowlers don't pitch the ball just short of a length nearly often enough.

I can never understand why our bowlers can often never get it right. They are supposed to be the three or four best bowlers in the land and they get paid £1m every year to bowl so why don't they know where to land the ball and actually get the ball to land there.

It's a bit like highly paid footballers who make a mess of taking a corner

 

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View Goal Machine's Profile Goal Machine Flag The Cronx 06 Dec 17 6.52pm Send a Private Message to Goal Machine Add Goal Machine as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

I can never understand why our bowlers can often never get it right. They are supposed to be the three or four best bowlers in the land and they get paid £1m every year to bowl so why don't they know where to land the ball and actually get the ball to land there.


Not quite as straight forward as that. They do pitch it where they’re aiming about 90% of time. It’s mostly a tactical battle against a skilful world class batsman. The state of the wicket and the weather also have an impact on the way the ball behaves. It’s difficult to maintain if you’re bowling 20-25 overs in the day.

For the next test I’d get Foakes in for Vince and play Bairstow at 4 as a batsman. Foakes has a higher first class batting average then most of the top 6.

Cook
Stoneman
Root
Bairstow
Malan
Ali
Foakes
Woakes
Overton
Broad
Anderson

 

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Originally posted by Goal Machine

Not quite as straight forward as that. They do pitch it where they’re aiming about 90% of time. It’s mostly a tactical battle against a skilful world class batsman.

The Aussie batting lineup is nowhere near as strong as it used to be with only Warner and Smith perhaps deserving the "skilful world class" label

 

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View Willo's Profile Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 06 Dec 17 7.52pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

The Aussie batting lineup is nowhere near as strong as it used to be with only Warner and Smith perhaps deserving the "skilful world class" label

Yes I agree.
Khawaja is also decent.
But our bowlers do not exactly cover themselves with glory.

Conversely with regards to our batting attack one can predict the customary collapse so I have no confidence in us scoring enough runs.

Edited by Willo (06 Dec 2017 7.53pm)

 

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