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I was hit for five sixes in an over at the Oval... By a young Surrey second XI player.Gilbert Jessop - Wikipedia
An 'interesting' link to Gilbert Jessop the bloke that still holds the record for England's fastest hundred. Back in the days when Oval boundaries were half a mile long and you had to hit it out of the ground to make a 6. Wasn't it seen as ungentlemanly to even hit the ball on the leg side in those days or have I just made that up?
No I don't think so. I was there in 2005, however.
Bairstow opening is the only other option I can think of? Then having Brook in at 5, Jonny hasn't opened in Test or CC before but he has in T20. I think Crawley is out of the option for the moment for openers, get Compton in
Read something yesterday that said it's likely this stat isn't accurate as 100 years ago you wouldn't have scorers recording balls faced. Said that when he made the hundred it was likely a journalist was asked to give a rough guess of how many balls he'd faced and it's likely that figure went into the history books.Gilbert Jessop - Wikipedia
An 'interesting' link to Gilbert Jessop the bloke that still holds the record for England's fastest hundred. Back in the days when Oval boundaries were half a mile long and you had to hit it out of the ground to make a 6. Wasn't it seen as ungentlemanly to even hit the ball on the leg side in those days or have I just made that up?
Barstow opening ain't going to happen
I don’t think they won’t change the team whilst we are winning. They are building trust and the way to do that is give players a run under the new coach.
Agree, they will stick with this team for the last test and then reassess.
I personally wouldn’t be surprised if they rested possibly Anderson or Broad for the final test especially with the one off India test coming up a few days later.
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I wanted less Overton not more!Jamie Overton added to England squad for Headingley Test vs New Zealand
Fast bowler likely to make international debut at Headingley as England manage workloads
Jamie Overton added to England squad for Headingley Test vs New Zealand
Fast bowler likely to make international debut at Headingley as England manage workloads
Bairstow agrees with you young manHis recent participation in IPL helped him
The clue was in how many overs (or lack of it) he bowled in the 2nd innings of the last test. He has been rested for Virat next week
Guardian says a niggle.
Crazy .. the umpire was lucky not to have got hit!
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No, still in play if it is only deflected.
Technically it did last came off Mitchell’s bat - you make a fair case !Crazy wicket. They should both be given out
NZ have got to be the unluckiest team.
You can watch pretty much any sport for years and still see something you have never seen before.
If the ball still doesn't hit the ground I presume that the decision is still out.
Interesting. What if the ball had deflected off the umpire too?
Still out.
In that situation the non-striker should have been given out.Reminded me of a game I played in years ago.
I was bowling and the batter hit the ball back to me for what would have been a straightforward caught and bowled. But the non-striker knocked the ball to the ground before I could catch it!! He claimed "self-defence", but I was furious!!
To make it worse, the batsman went on to get a century!!
I did appeal to the umpire for “obstructing the field”................but he was one of their team, and agreed with the non-striker that it was a reflex action and he was just defending himself!!
b***ocks!!
Doesn’t quite cover post #542 scenario
