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Root's sweater off, he's got 66 on his back.
And that is why the people questioning Broad's place in the side were wrong beforehand and can be quiet now
Hampshire can fuck right off. Their Academy programme is superbly organised. I know a few guys from the West Country who have ended up down there and there's no doubt it's very well organised. However it hasn't produced that many established players compared to the number of guys coming through it and when you look at the Kolpak situation with the Saffers and Fidel Edwards, it does look shit. A good Kolpak can add to a side: Morne Morkel at Surrey is the perfect example of a Kolpaker coming in and acting as a senior leader in a side full of young mostly English qualified talent.
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Btw, do you know who is the last person born in Wales to play International Cricket?
Surrey have a good balance of young players and older wiser heads.
Which would be a perfect time for my 2005 Ashes story. I spent the final Test on crutches in agony having smashed the living shit out of my knee. 23 July 2005 I effectively retired as a player. Dislocated left kneecap, smashed off 50% of the cartilage, cruciates fucked. My knee was so full of blood that it was bigger than my thigh for the best part of two weeks. Like Simon Jones with his horrir knee injury, I had to wait for the swelling to go down before any decent MRI scans could be taken. I ended up having surgery in early October in a private clinic in Bristol. Doctor sawed off the part of the shin where the patella tendon connects, moved it down, and then screwed it back down, effectively breaking and fracturing my leg. I woke up in the afternoon out of it and two of my mates turned up. They swore blind that Simon Jones was in the building and I scoffed.
Next morning I was watching an ODI game from the ICC Super Series. Nurse came up and asked me if I could do a quick lap of the corridor. I started up and this guy at the other end of the corridor was about to do the same. Fuck me, it really was Simon Jones. He was having surgery on the ankle injury that he'd sustained in the 4th Test that kept him out of the Oval Test. He ended up in my room for a bit watching the cricket and we talked about our respective injuries. He laughed when I told him about our own meeting on a pitch back in youth county cricket (I had him caught slogging, he watched me play and miss for two overs not getting anywhere near him as he was pretty sharp even back in his mid teens). Really nice guy and it was such a shame that he never played for England again.
Surrey have done an excellent job to turn things around since Tom Maynard's sad end. One hopes they treat Amar Virdi well as the kid's got the best off spin action I've seen for a long time.
Is this the point in the game where Aus put on 150 runs for no wickets?
Hope not
A great story. Your injury sounds terrible, how did you sustain it if you don't mind me asking? I presume you played cricket to a decent level/ A shame you had stop playing.
Simon Jones seems like a good guy, a real shame cricket never got to see as much of him as it could have done. In terms of natural ability, he's probably as good as any English bowler in the last 20 years.
Yeah you're right about the post Tom Maynard rebuilding. Alex Stewart seems to have a good grasp of running things at Surrey. I've not actually seen any of Amar Virdi bowl but heard very good things about him. My nephew plays cricket and has crossed paths with him a few times and says he's a nice chap as well.
Some very poor decision on behalf of the umpires today. They seem to have got more key decisions wrong than right.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/knee-osteotomy/about/pac-20394514
In the words of my surgeon: you have pubescent girls knees. he said that my knee had dislocated to a small degree every time I'd bowled. Given that I'd bowled some 600 overs in matches when I was 21, let alone practice where i'd bowled for six hours just at some stumps on my own sometimes, we're talking micro-dislocation in the hundreds of thousands. It was a matter of when, not if, my knee would eventually collapse. It's more akin to a stress fracture than the conventional trauma shock-type kinee injury like Jones had in Australia.
Martin Crowe had the same surgery done when he was 40 and said this at the time:
"After retirement, Crowe underwent an operation to his knee. "By the time I was 40, I couldn't even walk. I had a major operation called an osteotomy; it gives you 15 years of interim relief until you are old enough to have an artificial knee. I have felt good with this operation in the last 4-5 years. I have been playing regular golf and walking with no discomfort. I just feel I need to do a little bit more as I am lacking focus on something. So I have come up with this."
I was 27 when I had my operation: I'm 42 next year and I'm doing everything possible to avoid a knee replacement. Changed my diet, changed how I exercise, everything.
I was a pretty good cricketer, played in a good league, played for a Minor County at all age groups available to me, and had two county coaches say they'd have given me a summer contract had I been to a private school. Back in those days there was a lot of class snobbery in the West in cricket. I bowled leg breaks with a bizarre action that was very repeatable and stemmed from having very flexible shoulders and arms. Used to get a lot of bounce and actually put quite a few people (batsmen and keepers) in hospital with the overspin bounce I could get. I completely miss bowling and haven't done so since 2011 when playing in a Ministry of Defence match. I bowled alright but couldn't walk for two days. There's so little cartilage left in the left knee that I don't road run any longer. Remember Ledley King with Spurs and how he couldn't train conventionally and two matches a week was a stretch for him? That's how my knee is. With the screws and metal in there, temperature changes can cause it to lock up. The number of times I've had to hop through the chilled sections in supermarkets...
Virdi is going to be one hell of a bowler. Living as I do in Sutton, I waited to see him play for his Surrey league side at a venue close to me and was not disappointed. He's not a gym bunny and there is talk of his overall fitness but he has so much natural ability as an offspinner, excellent control and flight and seems to find the right pace to bowl on a wicket very quickly.
Sigh. All this talk of cricket makes me want to return and become a piechucker for a 4th XI somewhere
Regarding the class snobbery, I'd say it's still around! Probably as bad as it once was though. My nephew plays a fair amount of cricket and some of the insights seem to suggest for junior cricket there is still a hierarchy, eg public school/grammar, then club politics.
What club does Virdi play for? I'm not a million miles from Sutton, my nephew plays down the road.
As for being a Piechucker, go for it if your knees can handle it? You thought about umpiring though?
Seriously if this is the best standard of officiating then it bears very poorly for the standard of the game.
Virdi plays for Sunbury. Been playing quite a bit for them this season after his back injury before Surrey brought him back into the ranks.
http://rp.play-cricket.com/website/player_stats_widget/fielding_stats/1153825?rule_type_id=179
Good info about Virdi. Cheers.
A wrong stat too: I forgot about Strauss (Malvern) and Bell. FAIL on my part. But still...