Picking the other Marsh is really looking like an outstanding decision. wd Aussie selectors.

[Berni]

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[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

[Berni]

[Ben.]

because I'm assuming if you leave a ball you automatically get given out.

[Luis Anaconda]

[redgunamo]

[Pokster]

[Berni]

anyone out at all.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

2009 Royal Challengers Bangalore
2010 Worcestershire
2011 Kochi Tuskers Kerala
2011–present Sydney Sixers
2012–2013 Pune Warriors India
2013 Antigua Hawksbills
2014–2015 Rajasthan Royals

[Ben.]

[Rich]

him as our all-rounder.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=anthony+mcgrath&client =firefox-a&hs=CUQ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp ;source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMI maGY3p2XxwIVg7gUCh3xRQQO&biw=962&bih=308#imgrc=sLUEf en54p2-rM%3A (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=anthony+mcgrath&client=firefox-a&hs=CUQ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMImaGY3p2XxwIVg7gUCh3xRQQO&biw=962&bih=308#imgrc=sLUEfen54p2-rM%3A)

[Berni]

Pune Warriors sounds like a porn flick imo.

[Ben.]

Rogers is the only one who plays like a test match and he's been over here the time.

[Berni]

that nobody was entirely clear what he was for.

Of course the '**** all-rounder' thing was begun by Derek 'The Thinking Man's Ian Botham' Pringle - the mere mention of whose name is guaranteed to make me furious.

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Strange for an Irishman.

[Berni]

Geraint Jones is probably your best claim to fame of late. And he wasn't all that.

I think it's karma for inflicting Chris Tavare on an unsuspecting world.

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[Ben.]

Missed Tavare unfortunately (well not really) I'm sure I saw a program which said he actually scored at a decent rate in ODIs, was that inaccurate? :hehe:

[Berni]

England lost both Gooch and Boycott to the Rebel tour to S. Africa (what was Gooch thinking, ffs?) and then proceeded to stop playing any shots at all.

I remember seeing him get 50 n.o. having batted all day once. :-(

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

How did we not have anyone better, for Christ's sake?

[Ben.]

Batted through and was something like 54 n.o at the end, probably knew it was enough against Kent (think it was as well).

[Berni]

I'm not sure he'd get in many test teams these days - albeit he's a hell of a lot better than Lyth.

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

a hundred on the whole tour?

Dark times, r. Dark, dark times. :-(

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

of crease-occupation.

[Ben.]

when he was on your team, anyway.
Pity you automatically associate him with slipping on 99 and rubbing dirt on the ball.

[redgunamo]

once all hope had been lost. He'd underperformed (!) and Athers seemed to want to make an example of him.

[Berni]

He gets great credit for the stand with Russell against S. Africa. Less so for being McGrath's rabbit and being inexplicably unable to play Chaminda Vaas.

[Ben.]

That was when I was young and hadn't yet realised that none of our good players were English.

[redgunamo]

constantly fronting up to the press after yet another horror show.

[Berni]

What? Unlike all our other batsmen who were dealing with him easily, you mean?

Very shabbily treated, was Smith.

I often think the great, unsung hero of the pre-2005 era was Graham Thorpe. A consistently excellent, dogged batsman in what were usually pretty **** teams. Never receives the credit he deserves imo.

[Ben.]

The whole knock against South Africa really, quite a few people struggled with Vaas , the left arm thing seemed to make him really difficult to play.