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Post by newby on Oct 2, 2024 17:14:27 GMT
Team England have stepped in with a surprise, call up for Jafar Chohan in the White ball squad to play in the West Indies.
3 x ODI's and 5 x T20's are due to start on the 31st of October.
I'm not sure he's ready, but we might find out.
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Post by donnylad on Oct 2, 2024 18:00:44 GMT
I just saw Chohan's call up on BBC crocket. Unwisely I looked at the Have Your Say. What a collection of brainless, prejudiced, know-nowt-about crickit, hackneyed keyboard warriors. Some racist undertones too.
The only thing that rang true was the suggestion that Buttler needed a couple of decent batsmen from the Pakistan tour rather than the hit and miss sloggers .... I thought Butler was one of those? Another sunshine holiday for 'skipper' Blunder Buttler - check the local conditions this time Jos eh? All being lead and organised by Trescothick.
The uncapped inclusions - well ..... Chohan good - despite the crap about only takes a wicket a game, plays for YCCC so he's in, Root likes him etc. Turner is a Saffer whom that master coach Benkstein compared to Glen McGrath ..... Mousley is batsman, described as a 'part-time' off-spinner and has suddenly become 'an all rounder' because he has 50 career wickets in 63 T20 matches?
I wish them all well ... but ..... how many of these players were involved in finals for T20 or Royal London 50 over stuff? I can't see any.
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Post by hawke on Oct 2, 2024 19:04:21 GMT
Gosh that is rapid promotion! He was excellent, until the final match, in T20. Adil R has coached him at his cricket centre near Bradford. Well good luck but the fear is that he will be lost to T20s round the world.
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Post by newby on Oct 2, 2024 19:15:04 GMT
The idea seems to be that two of the players not picked for the third Test will hot foot it to the West Indies. If they need a solid batsman there isn't one, the only spare batsman with the Test team is Jordan Cox, who they picked and didn't use in the Australian series.
I'd guess the other one who isn't likely make the Test team is the all rounder Brydon Carse.
If they start to mess about with the Test team by resting Duckett, Brook or even Root for the final Test so they can join the white ball gang then they are dafter than I thought, and I think they are very daft indeed.
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Post by tykemania on Oct 2, 2024 19:58:51 GMT
Initial reaction when I saw this pop up on the BBC app was slack jawed - as newby says, he is probably a year and some wider exposure away from being "ready" but on the other hand, he bowled well apart from two games this year, crucially is quicker through the air than Rehan Ahmed (who took some serious tap last year in the West Indies) and lets face it, he is no more of a punt than Messers Ahmed, Bashir, Hartley and countless others. I wish him the best!
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Post by davemorton on Oct 3, 2024 18:07:44 GMT
Well, I have 'bought' my 2025 membership package. I was somewhat mollified that my details, including membership number, did come up once I started the process. Also pleased that the Senior All-in early-bird option remains £200.
I only bought one membership, though I could have had 50. I suppose that's for the vote, so Mr Rich can buy the necessary number when the time comes. I did tick the box (in the follow-up email) to retain my voting rights. Interesting and instructive that the default position is 'no vote', unless you opt in.
It is encouraging (if it's true) that membership numbers have increased by a significant number over 12 months, around 50%, to about 8,000. I do not trust the official site. False numbers have appeared before.
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Post by newby on Oct 3, 2024 19:08:24 GMT
They are keen to flaunt the headline numbers, not so forthcoming as to how many are in each class of membership therefore how much is it bringing into the coffers. It's quite a big ballpark, somewhere between £240,000 and £2.4M, working on 8000 members.
I'll secure mine next week, I left it until November last years and misspent my winter fuel payment on it. No help from the taxpayers this year, I'll have to spend my own money.
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Post by hawke on Oct 6, 2024 20:50:18 GMT
I read that Alex Lees put his decline at YCCC to the departure of Jason Gillespie who showed confidence in him. So not a vote of confidence for Andrew Gale there. I wonder if Gillespie would have seen something more in Will Rhodes?
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Post by tykemania on Oct 6, 2024 21:03:11 GMT
I read that Alex Lees put his decline at YCCC to the departure of Jason Gillespie who showed confidence in him. So not a vote of confidence for Andrew Gale there. I wonder if Gillespie would have seen something more in Will Rhodes? Thats weak bordering on embarrassing from Lees. Gale saw enough in him that he dropped himself on at least two occasions so as Lees stayed in the side with all of our internationals.
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Post by hawke on Oct 6, 2024 21:16:30 GMT
interesting tykemania thanks
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Post by davemorton on Oct 7, 2024 0:12:57 GMT
The Lees 'thing' will remain a mystery. He did amazingly well at the start of his career, boosted by his 285* at Chesterfield, and by the huge 375 partnership with Lyth at Northampton. Another big partnership followed, at Trent Bridge, when we won the 2014 title.
In 2015, when we found ourselves minus 7 players in the opening game at Worcester (6 with England in West Indies, Gale suspended). Alex was captain and led with the bat as we won by 10 wickets. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, something did. There are ups and downs and loss of form, but I have never seen one (from a batsman) as extreme as Alex's decline. A coach is supposed to boost a player's self-esteem and confidence, and the captain probably has an even bigger part to play, but how do you account for this? The captain can't bat for you. If he doesn't rate you, go out and bloody show him!
We know that cricketers' lives are complex - just like the rest of us. We know Alex lost his father. We suspect Gale may have been a bit lacking in the touchy-feely department. But, in the end, it's the player who carries his bat, as Lyth may have said. And, almost overnight, Alex went from being England hopeful, to more like Richard Stemp.
Well done to him, and to Durham, that he turned it round again. If he is contemplating a return to Yorkshire, I believe that would be a mistake, by both parties.
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