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If England are going to bring back an opinionated, disruptive player who's scored a huge number of runs in tests and has an inflated opinion of his own worth, they may as well grasp the rhubarb stick and bring back Mr Boycott. At least he speaks with a local accent ;-). |
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Oscar the Grouch |
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Is that the bag holding boycotts nans stick of rhubarb Ha ha, oops. Damn auto correct. Bat... |
| KP for a recall and Boycott to come out of retirement with his stick of rhubarb. |
| That’s fine but we are going to have bump down boycotts mum and her rhubarb to 4. |
| I think you will find that Boycott's mum is in better form with the rhubarb. |
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That new Ashes XI in full Cook, Sir A (spin bowling all rounder) Boycott, G (could still whip the current top order with a stick of rhubarb) Vaughn, M (so we don't have to listen to him) Root, J (no one else is allowed the no. 4 spot now) Gatting, M (an anchor for the innings, or possibly just a useful anchor) + Jardine, D (ghost of, because the Aussies don't like it up 'em) * Moeen Ali (he has compromising pictures of the selection committee... he must have) Pringle, D (just because) Larwood, H (see Jardine, D) Tufnell, P (see Vaughn, M) Other, AN (random fast bowler picked from the walking wounded) 12th Man: Leach, J * Captain + Wicketkeeper (with the specialist keeper deemed obsolete, go for the widest barrier) |
| Boycott and his stick of Rhubarb |
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Nicholls595 |
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Boycott was stood at the non strikers end. With a stick of rhubarb* * not true. |
Is that the bag holding boycotts nans stick of rhubarb  |
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57.5 Days of Xmas |
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Boycotts Granny may count as a legend? |
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Boycott at 1-6 armed with his rhubarb |
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ThorntonRunner |
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Would one of the Boycotts in that team be Geoffrey's mum with a stick of rhubarb? |
Would one of the Boycotts in that team be Geoffrey's mum with a stick of rhubarb? You actually read my mind while I typed it. |
| You do have to question selection of 2 new bowlers in an Ashes test. Bit different if bring them in against Bangladesh or something or any test with a lower profile. The press do sometimes over egg things though -eulogising about Michael Carberry's ton the other day -against Bangladesh A, no doubt made with a stick of rhubarb. |
| Geoff's mum would be at the other end with a stick of rhubarb |
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fetcheveryone |
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My nan could knock off most of these runs with a stick of rhubarb etc. |
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Oscar the Grouch |
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Jeffrey out. Bring back Geoffrey. To bowl. With his granny and her stick of rhubarb to bat. Obvs. I should think Gooch is still running laps so that's the top order sorted in 1977. |
| And his mum. Those two are incredible, playing with willow, rhubarb, whatevers lying around. |
| Actually Michael Clarke would probably bat better at the moment with a stick of rhubarb or a sweeping brush |
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I have problems remember what match I watched last month, never mind my first one. I do recall watching Geoffrey playing without any Rhubarb, latterly partnered with Tavare. Exciting times. |
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Crash Hamster |
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My granny could make 100 on this with a stick of rhubarb, Sarrers MDOT. (so yeah, probably 500 in the series ) |
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fetcheveryone |
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Rhubarb? |
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Michael Vaughn : "You need a long piece of rhubarb to hit that ball from Johnson" |
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TROSaracen |
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No. Images of Geoffrey's old nan and a stick of rhubarb.... |
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Crash Hamster |
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We did; he's not technically correct enough to open. See also Hales. And this is the problem; with the advent of hit and wish cricket, good technique is less of a prized commodity, so fewer players are produced. /grandma, stick of rhubarb, uncovered pitches, dig in |
| 250-4 at close no trouble with a stick of rhubarb |
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Crash Hamster |
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Morning Wrigglers, morning everyone. I'd planned a day off for today, but have come to work to do some admin, it was so dull yesterday. I will at least have it burbling away in the background. Quite frankly, I reckon my granny could play on this with a stick of rhubarb. She may not be good at quick singles, on account of being dead, but she'd probably play well behind the wicket and straight down the ground. |
| Afternoon everyone, Boycs would have got to less than 7 in 90 minutes, even with a stick of rhubarb. Actually Cookie could do with a stick of rhubarb now !! |
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Ocelot Spleens |
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sorry to sound liek boycs, but. You have to see both teams bowl/bat. anyhow Rhubarb. |
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Nicholls595 |
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and without the rhubarb |
| Using a stick of rhubarb |
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Crash Hamster |
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My dear old mom and her stick of rhubarb is no Derek Pringle So we're taking the same 16 players to India (plus Jimmy) and it has apparently been important to rotate a spinner and a quick bowler because we need to have a look at them. It's reasonable to see Duckett get a chance for several Tests (but why isn't Batty accorded the same respect?)... ...but we've not given either Buttlerfingers or Hameed a go in spinning conditions, so what happens if a batsman is injured or *needs to be dropped*? We throw in someone who hasn't had a bat in anger on this tour and say 'good luck, son!' |
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50-5. They're having a giraffe. Send out the call for Geoffrey's mum and her rhubarb. |
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The Teaboy |
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I think if you want a spinner to satisfy Captain Jardine, he'd prefer Hedley Verity. Can't see Fozz disagreeing with another Yorkie in the line up either. I presume Boycs Granny would open with Hobbs. If only to demonstrate how she'd be playing Lyon with a stick of Rhubarb. |
| Not sure it would be a stick of forced rhubarb though -probably the more robust stuff that you grow in the garden |
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Could you imagine sitting on a committee with GB? At least when he is wittering on incessantly about corridors of uncertainty, sticks of rhubarb and uncovered pitches there is an off switch. But stuck in a meeting with that...? |
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Next to the net they had this big pallet of wood. |
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Oscar the Grouch |
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Is Boycs mum still going with her stick of rhubarb - selection dilemmas... |
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with stick of rhubarb obvs |
| Others - cook and boycott? |
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Going back to mention of Ed Smith, has there been another period with so much change in the TMS commentary box? In the last 11 years, they've lost Blofeld, Boycott, Smith, Selvey, CMJ and Frindall (RIP x2) off the top of my head - and that's before you get on to opposition commentators like Tony Cozier (RIP again, alas). I know there always change over time but I can't recall that much churn since I started listening... PS I'm ambivalent about Smith's commentary - he's slightly too pleased with himself - but he's an excellent writer: I do miss his New Statesman columns. |
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Cerrertonia |
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I think it's the best line-up they've ever had. Isa Guha is excellent. Andy Zaltzman has his long career as a comedian and as a radio presenter to draw from, so perhaps not surprising that he's wittier than previous scorers/statisticians. Dan Norcross obviously created and presented a successful alternative to TMS, which is an interesting career path to landing a job. Boycott had become a caricature, the programme is much improved without him. (Not sure about your comment on Vaughan's politics. He's very much in the Boycott/ Botham mould - openly Conservative/ pro-Brexit, tweeted about us needing a Trump-style leader in Britain.) |
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fetcheveryone |
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The list in full, from 28 down to 1: 28 JM Bairstow 20.50 27 GA Hick 19.00 26 MJ Prior 17.57 25 MA Butcher 16.38 24 AJ Stewart 15.67 23 MW Gatting 13.80 22 KWR Fletcher 13.71 21 MA Atherton 13.25 20 RA Smith 12.44 19 N Hussain 12.21 18 BA Stokes 11.90 17 IT Botham 11.50 16 PD Collingwood 11.50 15 DI Gower 11.33 14 DW Randall 11.29 13 GP Thorpe 11.19 12 GA Gooch 10.75 11 IJL Trott 10.33 10 ME Trescothick 10.21 9 JE Root 10.06 8 AJ Lamb 9.93 7 IR Bell 9.32 6 AN Cook 8.82 5 G Boycott 8.77 4 AJ Strauss 8.48 3 MP Vaughan 8.17 2 KP Pietersen 7.87 1 BC Broad 7.33 |
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fetcheveryone |
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Here's one. I filtered a list of England's top test match century makers, to only include players who have featured in matches since 1980 (so Greig 72-77 doesn't feature, but Boycott 64-82 does). This list appears to include everyone who has six centuries or more. Then I looked at who has the best "innings per 100" ratio. The top player on my list scored a hundred every 7.33 innings. The least prolific scored a hundred every 20.5 innings. Your guesses for the most and least efficient, please |
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57.5 Days of Xmas |
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We had a vote a few years back WS. Definitely still north Brits up here! If West Indies score just past the follow on mark, do we get to enjoy Burns and Sibley doing their best impression of Boycott and Brearley in the 1979 World Cup final as the overs tick away? |
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Nicholls595 |
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I would love to see Stokes and Buttler play the same shots with Boycott's bat. |
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Nicholls595 |
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Bradman WG Grace Wally Hammond Hobbs Barrington Edrich Boycott Cook Atherton |
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Maclennane |
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boycott's was 55 |
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Cerrertonia |
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The thing about the Botham run-out is that he seems to stop before he gets to Boycott. If you're doing it on purpose, you surely want to make it very clear that you'd actually crossed. |
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fetcheveryone |
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Nah - Boycott got 155 in the same innings, and they declared. |