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