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Root's sweater off, he's got 66 on his back.
And that is why the people questioning Broad's place in the side were wrong beforehand and can be quiet now
Hampshire can fuck right off. Their Academy programme is superbly organised. I know a few guys from the West Country who have ended up down there and there's no doubt it's very well organised. However it hasn't produced that many established players compared to the number of guys coming through it and when you look at the Kolpak situation with the Saffers and Fidel Edwards, it does look shit. A good Kolpak can add to a side: Morne Morkel at Surrey is the perfect example of a Kolpaker coming in and acting as a senior leader in a side full of young mostly English qualified talent.
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Btw, do you know who is the last person born in Wales to play International Cricket?
Surrey have a good balance of young players and older wiser heads.
Which would be a perfect time for my 2005 Ashes story. I spent the final Test on crutches in agony having smashed the living shit out of my knee. 23 July 2005 I effectively retired as a player. Dislocated left kneecap, smashed off 50% of the cartilage, cruciates fucked. My knee was so full of blood that it was bigger than my thigh for the best part of two weeks. Like Simon Jones with his horrir knee injury, I had to wait for the swelling to go down before any decent MRI scans could be taken. I ended up having surgery in early October in a private clinic in Bristol. Doctor sawed off the part of the shin where the patella tendon connects, moved it down, and then screwed it back down, effectively breaking and fracturing my leg. I woke up in the afternoon out of it and two of my mates turned up. They swore blind that Simon Jones was in the building and I scoffed.
Next morning I was watching an ODI game from the ICC Super Series. Nurse came up and asked me if I could do a quick lap of the corridor. I started up and this guy at the other end of the corridor was about to do the same. Fuck me, it really was Simon Jones. He was having surgery on the ankle injury that he'd sustained in the 4th Test that kept him out of the Oval Test. He ended up in my room for a bit watching the cricket and we talked about our respective injuries. He laughed when I told him about our own meeting on a pitch back in youth county cricket (I had him caught slogging, he watched me play and miss for two overs not getting anywhere near him as he was pretty sharp even back in his mid teens). Really nice guy and it was such a shame that he never played for England again.
Surrey have done an excellent job to turn things around since Tom Maynard's sad end. One hopes they treat Amar Virdi well as the kid's got the best off spin action I've seen for a long time.
Is this the point in the game where Aus put on 150 runs for no wickets?
Hope not
A great story. Your injury sounds terrible, how did you sustain it if you don't mind me asking? I presume you played cricket to a decent level/ A shame you had stop playing.
Simon Jones seems like a good guy, a real shame cricket never got to see as much of him as it could have done. In terms of natural ability, he's probably as good as any English bowler in the last 20 years.
Yeah you're right about the post Tom Maynard rebuilding. Alex Stewart seems to have a good grasp of running things at Surrey. I've not actually seen any of Amar Virdi bowl but heard very good things about him. My nephew plays cricket and has crossed paths with him a few times and says he's a nice chap as well.
Some very poor decision on behalf of the umpires today. They seem to have got more key decisions wrong than right.