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Originally Posted by south beds mikey  I don't know a lot about Keedy but you feel he is better than my boy Monty Ern? If so he should have played, my usual objections to bits and pieces players over specialists. |
He was before Monty mikey, but like Monty he was a true spinner - not an all rounder.
He was very different to Giles, he was an attacking bowler unlike Giles who's stock in trade was bowling over the wicket.
The reason Giles was always selected over Keedy IMO, was the shortcomings of the England batting - the selectors felt that Giles was needed to prop up the batting in the late order, rather than selecting proper batsmen.
"Better than Monty"?, we will never know - but one thing is sure, he should have been given a chance to play for England.
Going back some decades England missed a trick by never selecting Lancashire's "Flat Jack Simmonds". He was a very different off spinner who could and did dry up runs with flat deliveries, and batsmen got themselves out due to sheer frustration. And he could bat a bit also.
He would at least have fit into the England one day side, he could never have got carted.
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