Is, I believe, the correct and official nomenclature.
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Is, I believe, the correct and official nomenclature.
Only four-eyes I can recall was David Steele - but he was middle order I think (can remember hearing off him not quite old enough to have seen him play). Tavare may have worn glasses - didn't stop him not playing his shots though. Wouldn't mind one of his kind today tbh
I think he came here when he was 10, to be fair. You're right about the Oval, though. Also, the main wicket at Whitgift was always a road as well. Gorgeous to bat on, it was. And a nice short boundary to the bank. Had some very pleasant knocks on there. :cloud9:
Agreed. And if anyone can show him, it's Thorpe. He played beautifully late. I still maintain he's one of the most underrated English batsmen of my lifetime - largely because he was always playing in shít sides where he was the only world-class bat. I know it was the right decisions to pick Pietersen in 2005, but it was still a very shoddy end for Thorpe.
:hehe: poor nets obviously. I remember being in the bar at Quo Vadis (the places we'd go to when we were young!) and got chatting to these Kiwi girls one of whom claimed to be the girl that Thorpe smuggled into his room in NZ. Hardly worth risking your marriage for, let alone your England place (and yes that is the right order of importance)
Aaaaand ... collapse.
Cleaned up.
Went back in on Ireland a couple hours back at 25/1
Just cashed out at 9/2.
I make England solid favourites, I'm afraid. Ireland struggled to get to 207 in the first innings. I don't see life being any easier for them in this.
I'd like to be wrong. They deserve to win for having made a game of it, but I fear England will be too strong for them.