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I don't have any problem with Parkinson not being picked. Tossing a rookie legspinner out into the hardest tour for an overseas spinner is a hell of a risk. Mason Crane did it last time: hasn't played since. Scott Borthwick in the tour before that: hasn't played since. Simon Kerrigan against Australia at home: we know how that turned out. I'd like to see Parkinson on the tour to the West Indies in Q1 2022.
Mahmood would have been worth a punt. I imagine he will be with the Lions who are touring at the same time as the Test series and he'll be first name should injuries occur.
This notion of Australia being shit: pfffh.
In Warner, Labuschagne, and Smith, you have three players averaging 48 to 60. Tim Paine gets slated for his batting and averages the same as our keepers. Their pace attack is well ahead of ours and there's a few in the second string who might be bolters. Where Australia have a problem in a) an opener to go with Warner and b) one middle order batsman as they'll keep Cameron Green in there at 6. I think they'll keep on with Marcus Harris at the top hoping that his time playing county cricket gives him the boost that it gave to Labuschagne. Whether they'll give Matt Wade another chance... who knows. Will Pucovski hasn't played since his shoulder injury on debut in January against India so it might be too soon for him to come back.
It's a statistical fact he hold the record for the best bowling in test cricket by a spinner with a 'meet me at macdonalds' haircut.
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14 Tests away: 756 runs at 27 (2 tons).
13 Tests home: 1462 runs at 76.94 with five tons and a best of 335* against Pakistan.
He might struggle on English greentops but he's still mighty decent on Aussie decks.
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Everything that's happened doesn't surprise me. It's no different to what I saw in the youth cricket days. the dumb fuck sexism, the casual racism from some players. I toured Barbados 20+ years ago with a 2nd XI county/BUSA composite side. One guy there was too ready with the racist language. I gave him a warning twice to stop on different days. Third time it happened, he called our bus driver a stupid N word. He was three rows up in the bus from me. I got up, walked over, told him that I'd warned him, and decked him. Nobody said a word after that. Outside of my brother, he is still the only individual I've punched. It wasn't edifying, I felt horrible afterwards and took myself away from the team for 24 hours to contemplate whether I wanted to continue the tour, but in my mind it was the right thing to do. The sexist side: most of you know about the Alex Hepburn case at Worcester. I went to uni there and saw things involving folk who played at county level that were just hideous.
Shit. That's depressing me already. To think that it's still going on is even more depressing. So I want to put something positive up. Two years prior to the Barbados trip, I saw one of the best things I've ever seen on a cricket field. We were playing Oxfordshire and we'd lost early wickets chasing 260 odd. It got exciting, 50 needed with four wickets left from the last 10 overs. Our off spinner was batting well, very short chap, maybe 5ft 2". Oxford skipper brought his opening bowler back. he was quite a verbal bowler who'd already given a load of shit out. Lo and behold, he does it again to our offie, a lot of disabled comments and suggesting that his short stature was some kind of birth defect. His skipper warned him to stop or he'd be removed. Two overs later, more abuse continuing along the disabled lines. Skip not only took him out of the attack, he ordered him from the pitch to be replaced by the 12th man. We beat Oxfordshire and post-match we as a side all went up to their captain one by one to shake his hand. That's always stuck with me as one of the best "I will not compromise my principles" acts I've ever seen, that he compromised his own team's ability to win in order to not compromise his morals and ethics. Maybe that incident had an impact on me in Barbados two years later.
And maybe that is what we need here, leaders who are prepared to come and and say what is wrong and what is right, and for people who have fucked up to come out and say that they have fucked up.
Considering Azeem Rafiq went to the ECB over a year ago not much was done until the report was leaked to a newspaper.
There are some Yorkshire supporters here, I'd be intrigued to their thoughts.
Michael Vaughan is the next name to be involved.
Allegedly looked at some of the Asian players and said 'there are too many of you lot'.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2021/11/04/michael-vaughan-named-azeem-rafiq-report-totally-deny-accusation/?utm_content=sport&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1636058895
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