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on May 6, 2011
It's being reported on Cricinfo that Shivnarine Chanderpaul is set for a recall to the West Indies test side. How the hell can this be the case after what we have witnessed over the past 2-3 weeks? How can all this bad feeling be put aside to enable him to play test cricket? He has said himself that he hasn't been able to fully concentrate on his batting due to messages being sent out to him while...
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on May 6, 2011
I'm not sure what bothers me the most about what happened at Edgbaston today. Our groundsman producing a turing pitch when our best spinner is out injured, losing 7 wickets for 11 runs, or Ashley Giles' reaction to collapsing in that manner. In defence of the batting collapse Giles said "I can't fault the fight our batsmen showed. The odds were against them. They were up against two top-class left...
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on May 4, 2011
I see it's being widely reported tonight that Alastair Cook is going to be confirmed as England's 50 over team captain tomorrow. From a purely cricketing point of view I'm not totally in favour of this, but looking at the bigger picture and the limited options available, what else could England really have done? The cricketing point of view that I'm not convinced by is, is Alastair Cook good enou...
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on May 3, 2011
BBC Wales' cricket correspondent Edward Bevan was the victim of a vicious assault at the hands of Somerset's Peter Trego at Taunton on Monday. Armed with a cricket bat, Trego launched an unprovoked attack on Bevan which ended up with the Welsh veteran narrowly avoiding being glassed by the west country, heavily tattooed thug. Bevan did suffer brusing to his lower back, but widely regards himself ...
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on May 2, 2011
Whatever you think of him - whether or not he should have been banned for life, etc - there is no doubting that the game of snooker is in a better state with John Higgins in it, rather than out. Again tonight Higgins showed that remarkable fighting spirit and never say die attitude required to get himself over the winning line against Judd Trump, even the frame he won to clinch the title was won a...
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on May 1, 2011
Judd Trump's overnight 10-7 lead over John Higgins has put him in with a massive chance of winning the snooker World Championship. Trump started the tournament with a shock victory over Neil Robertson and his amazing run has just continued from there, he now has just one more day to negotiate and he could well be world champion. That's where the problem lies. Will Trump ultimately run out of gas a...
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on May 1, 2011
It was poignant that 'Whispering' Ted Lowe should pass away just a few hours before the start of the 2011 snooker World Championship final. If that were not bad enough, only a matter of hours later Sir Henry Cooper also passed away. I grew up listening to Ted Lowe and his voice was unmistakable, he is up there with the all time broadcasting greats for me, Sir Peter O'Sullevan, Bill McLaren, Harry ...
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on April 30, 2011
"I couldn't argue when I was left out. I hadn't done anything to keep my place, I wasn't bowling well," That's Jimmy's view of the decision to drop him during the recent world cup. Does Jimmy justify a recall? On the form he showed in Australia and at the world cup, I'd have to say no. He could be excused his performances in the ODI series in Australia due to his travelling back and forth to Engl...
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on April 30, 2011
It's been a bit of an entertaining and crazy start to the county championship so far this season, Somerset struggling, Warwickshire's batsmen scoring runs, summer weather in April, etc. This week a bit of normality appeared to be returning to proceedings. Marcus Trescothick is back in the runs with a double ton (227), Surrey getting hammered and Warwickshire's batting collapsing again, then I seen...
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on April 27, 2011
I was surprised to hear today that Duncan Fletcher has been named as India coach on a 2 year contract. With India the number 1 test team and ODI world champions, it would seem like the dream job. But I'm not so sure and think he could be on a hiding to nothing here, this job looks full of pitfalls to me, I can already hear Geoffrey Boycott sniggering at the thought of Fletcher falling on his face ...
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