Back to back "Michelles" for Simon Jones

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There's lovely.

Richard

Would this idea work? How would it need to be implemented? Your thoughts?

Gloomy, damp and curtailed at both ends it may have been, but the
first day of the Lord's Test was cracking entertainment. We started
with the by now familiar routine of England's pace bowlers knocking
over the NZ top four for not very many, and then moved on to the main
course, a meaty 97 by McCullum which occasioned a standing ovation
from the crowd as he departed. Were today's conditions likely to
persist throughout the match, it would be evenly poised, but with the
forecast predicting much better weather for the next couple of days,
England have a distinct advantage as things now stand.

Now that a man with the initials BJ runs London it is only to be
expected that the buses suck; I therefore missed Redmond's debut
innings, such as it was.

Anderson and Sidebottom were bowling at a decent pace, but their lines
were both a bit variable, hindered in part by some fairly lively
movement through the air. Neither How nor Marshall looked comfortable,
Marshall edging one behind off Anderson only to be reprieved by the
umpire's horizontal arm indicating the no-ball. In his next over,
though, he failed to overstep as How played at one ripe for the
leaving and Ambrose safely pouched it.

Just watching the England kit - and that is seriously bright white!

Just wondered - when was the last "RH-friendly" side picked for England?

Going back to 1981 in India there was Gooch, Boycott, Tavare, Gower,
Fletcher, Botham, Emburey, Dilley, Taylor and Underwood. I'm assuming this
would meet your satisfaction, RH?

Any team more recently?

Richard

So, in the end, just a 5-ODI match ban for Harbhajan Singh. The
maverick off-spinner must be overjoyed. Yes, overjoyed because he
managed to pull all the rights strings in the BCCI to ensure that he
escapes a more stringent punishment. The Indian cricket board probably
had no answers to the doosra bowled by Bhajji.

Which doosra? Sachin Tendulkar? Did Tendulkar turn the tables in
Harbhajan's favour? According to cricketlogic.blogspot.com, maybe.

It's no secret in the cricketing circles that Bhajji is indeed the
main guy in the Bombay Bomber's coterie (after Ajit Agarkar) since
quite some time now. It was thanks to Tendulkar that the Punjab lad
landed a lucrative contract with the Mumbai Indians despite his poor
form this season.

As the investigations in the now infamous Harbhajan-Sreesanth episode
began, rumours made the rounds at the Punjab Cricket Association that
the Master Blaster had personally called up a few influential people
in the Kings XI team management to make things easier for his IPL
teammate.

Out of personal interest just to see what the results were, I've
calculated Brown's FC batting average based on the month each match
started in, i.e. if a county match started on 31st August but Brown
didn't bat until last day (early September by then of course) I've
included the innings in August figures.

April: 1490 runs @ 41.39 - incl 3x100s
May: 2382 runs @ 40.37 - incl 4x100s
June: 2857 runs @ 42.64 - incl 8x100s
July: 3221 runs @ 52.80 - incl 14x100s
Aug: 3230 runs @ 43.07 - incl 9x100s
Sept: 1713 runs @ 40.79 - incl 6x100s

I wonder if others are surprised that July is easily his best,
yet the other months are so even ?

Cheers
Ross

p.s. figures are up to but not including match which started today.

Cloudy throughout, with outbreaks of rain, and with some of it heavy
and thundery, Much cooler than of late. Maximum temperature 18 °C.

And I've got tickets to the Grandstand - sob !

Richard

And I don't know the answer.

However I saw that Luke Germon played 12 Tests for NZ and was captain every
time.

Now I expect that was not unusual when a country first started playing Test
cricket- and maybe in the formative years of test cricket.

Any suggestions who else may have played every Test as captain?

I'm wondering where the ECBACO got 10 000 members from. There were
8000 ACU&S worldwide, and ACU&S are refunding fees to 4000 members who
didn't transfer to ECBACO. Seems like 6000 odds umpires just appeared
from nowhere, while almost every umpiring association on God's grey
earth is suffering from a shortage of umpires.

I think I missed the transfer deadline, because the ECBACO are not
allowed to know my details (data protection) so they can't contact me
and the is no ACU&S to inform me of deadlines and dates. I read a
letter about transfers (outdated now) and it basically said If you get
this letter then tell yer mates (colleagues) about it......pass it on/

The ICC officials association is a bit better organised, and they seem
to be supporting the efforts of the ECBACO. Perhaps ICC Europe have
had to intervene in order to unearth some more umpires.

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