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Old 31-10-2007, 04:48 AM in reply to adamberry's post starting "I would have no objections to..."
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Originally Posted by adamberry View Post
Whilst I agree that the vast majority of the eligible seamers don't cut the mustard (so to speak), there's something about picking only two specialist seamers that screams "no" at me. When was the last time an international team won anything with just two real seamers?
Well... depending on whether you are prepared to flatter many of the recent international seamers (Tino Best, Mahmood, Sami and so on) with the title "real" seamers

I withdraw the half-baked suggestion... not least because (when I stop to think about it) the seam bowling is actually better off than the batting (which, Shah aside, doesn't inspire me at all) and the spin bowling (which is in even worse shape).

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