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Aug 2020
11:02pm, 26 Aug 2020
1,880 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
You'd have to say Vermeulen missed a straight one...
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Aug 2020
11:52pm, 26 Aug 2020
11,349 posts
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rf_fozzy
Missed? He was not even close to hitting a straight ball that didn't swing and hit middle 2/3 of the way up.
It was special batting.
And I don't claim that my batting was ever anything to write home against. Especially against quicker bowling, but at least I was more or less in line most of the time and if I was bowled (which I was fairly often) it was because it went through the gate.
Don't recall ever missing one on middle that went past the outside edge...
Somehow though, Mark Vermulen has a test century..(and I don't...yet)
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Aug 2020
12:13pm, 27 Aug 2020
1,881 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
It was more village green than international standard...
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Aug 2020
12:56pm, 27 Aug 2020
28,162 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Yeah, it was a straight ball, Vaughan said he bowled a booming outswinger. I am getting tired of Vaughan, he was around when Anderson was being tinkered with, he made it seem as if it was nothing to do with him....there was a disagreement on TMS as too wh was the coach, one (I forget who), said Troy Cooley, another Kevin Shine.....I think they overlap Anderson's period out of the team.
You do have t think though, when he turned up he against Harmison Flintoff, Hoggard, Jones, Sidebottom, you can see why he popped in and out of the team early on and why Vaughan won, not his just captaincy he got pretty lucky bowling attack-wise.
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Aug 2020
12:56pm, 27 Aug 2020
28,163 posts
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Wriggling Snake
and Gilo, the King of Spain
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Aug 2020
1:08pm, 27 Aug 2020
1,882 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Vaughan is the worst type of pundit. Anything for a soundbite. I think Kevin Shine did for a generation of Somerset players before ruining Anderson...
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Aug 2020
3:52pm, 27 Aug 2020
21,790 posts
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TRO Saracen
I always let Vaughany off for bad punditry, 2005 and all that. He might not be able to dine off that indefinitely in my eyes, but he has a way to go yet.
If Broad ever becomes a pundit, he'll get some slack for THAT 8-15 as well.....
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Aug 2020
3:57pm, 27 Aug 2020
11,352 posts
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rf_fozzy
2005 isn't the bit that gets him the slack - it's was that run, starting with the 115 against Sri Lanka at Lord's that saw him score 100, 197, 195, 177, 145, 183 and 156 in the space of 15 tests in 2002-3, which included three of those big ones against Australia in Australia.
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Aug 2020
4:03pm, 27 Aug 2020
21,791 posts
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TRO Saracen
All those 150+'s not converted to doubles.... 
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Aug 2020
4:06pm, 27 Aug 2020
11,353 posts
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rf_fozzy
Stat of the day: Chris Silverwood played all 6 of his tests overseas. 4 in South Africa, 1 in Zimbabwe and in Australia. He does have a 5-91 against S Africa too.
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