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Established International
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 3,138
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http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/eng...2016;type=year A hundred runs more than Root (who's had two more innings), two hundred more than Cook (three more), nearly four hundred more than Ali (same number of innings). Your username is going to be quite ironic if you keep this up, because no-one will.
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Self Confessed Mentalist
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Hitchin
Team(s): England and Liverpool
Age: 41
Posts: 43,313
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Posting God
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 17,628
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A good thread title, by the way.
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#24 | |
International Material
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 1,489
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What the runs scored and averages taken together does seem to show is that England are heavily reliant on 4 players to score runs. You would hope that Cook, Bairstow, Root and Ali all get 1000 runs for the calendar year and maybe Ben Stokes if he's fir for the next 6 tests; which would be quite an achievement. My guess is Duckett will probably have to settle for the one day side at the moment |
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#25 | |
International Material
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Exeter
Posts: 1,296
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Think it's clearly between the three youngsters BD, Duckett and Hameed at the moment. Personally I was thinking BD - the most experienced, one who has a ton vs Oz and has opened for longer than Duckett's year or so - but Duckett has done enough in the match vs Kent to very much put the cat amongst the pigeons. |
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Posting God
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Manchester
Team(s): England, Lancashire, Man Utd
Posts: 15,839
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#27 |
International Material
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Herefordshire
Team(s): England
Posts: 1,878
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Will this end in him being sent home?
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#28 |
Posting God
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 17,628
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Sounds like he was on a night out with my in-laws.
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#29 |
Not Lara or Chanderpaul but the best you've got
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Glasgow
Team(s): AFC Hornchurch, Essex, England
Age: 33
Posts: 18,509
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Jimmy's so dull I imagine Ben thought it would make him more interesting. No blame attached here.
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#30 |
Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Team(s): England, Kent, Canada
Posts: 6,877
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Suspending him for some good-natured hijinks seems humourless and counter-productive. Pouring a drink over Anderson ought to be commended.
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Posting God
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sunny Sussex
Team(s): Sussex, England
Posts: 10,573
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I have to say, that this incident and the Bairstow ones have been taken so seriously by the ECB is ridiculous. It's got mood hoovers Flower and Strauss written all over it.
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#32 |
Not Lara or Chanderpaul but the best you've got
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Glasgow
Team(s): AFC Hornchurch, Essex, England
Age: 33
Posts: 18,509
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Thank God he didn't whistle or look out of a window.
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#33 | |
County 1st Team
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 493
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ECB have announced the punishment:
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#34 |
Not Lara or Chanderpaul but the best you've got
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Glasgow
Team(s): AFC Hornchurch, Essex, England
Age: 33
Posts: 18,509
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Absolute joke. Throw the book at a junior player to look tough. **** this tour.
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#35 |
International Material
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Melbourne
Team(s): Victoria
Posts: 1,905
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#36 |
Not Lara or Chanderpaul but the best you've got
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Glasgow
Team(s): AFC Hornchurch, Essex, England
Age: 33
Posts: 18,509
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He has a drink-driving conviction but I've not seen any evidence of a disciplinary history. This is a 'look tough' punishment and nothing more. Ben has been made a scapegoat and should tell England to go **** themselves after this.
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#37 |
International Material
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Melbourne
Team(s): Victoria
Posts: 1,905
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I understand the first two points in regards to taking a stance and making a scapegoat. but "Issued with a final written warning in respect of his conduct as an England player." Final warning, not first. Anyway, he seems like a proper nonce and lad. Might wake him up.
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#38 |
Not Lara or Chanderpaul but the best you've got
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Glasgow
Team(s): AFC Hornchurch, Essex, England
Age: 33
Posts: 18,509
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First and final? Just been googling and can't find any other unless they privately warned him about his drink-driving but then they never did owt about Swann speeding and trying to save his cat.
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#39 |
Not Lara or Chanderpaul but the best you've got
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Glasgow
Team(s): AFC Hornchurch, Essex, England
Age: 33
Posts: 18,509
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Okay a bit more looking shows that he lost the England U19 captaincy and a Northants pre-season tour for fitness issues but this is a complete overreaction by the ECB.
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#40 |
Posting God
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sunny Sussex
Team(s): Sussex, England
Posts: 10,573
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He's never fit the identikit ECB player model. Genuinely can't believe the ECB make the same mistakes over and over. This has been blown way out of proportion.
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