Thread: England's place in world cricket
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Old 19-09-2007, 09:02 PM in reply to Ernest's post starting "Stewart was the best opening partner..."
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Originally Posted by Rachael
Stewart, Botham, Gough and Flintoff have all been over-hyped in the media in games in which they have been indifferent[... ]whereas a better quality performance from (say) Crawley or Caddick has been the cue for utter castigation!
I wasn't suggesting that Botham and co never warranted hype... but all players have better days and worse days... and the likes of Gough and Stewart DID escape criticism of many indifferent performances where the likes of Caddick and Crawley tended to attract abuse even when they played quite well!

It's more true of soccer (e.g. the Neville Brothers) than of cricket... but the tendency is clear enough.
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