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Old 12-12-2005, 09:51 AM
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With every performance by Liam Plunkett it makes our "A" team look more and more ridiculous!!

We have criteria for the players we select, but to be a WAT Selector you just have to send an email at the right time (for the second year in a row I missed it) so we have people selecting the team based on stats.

I feel to be a selctor you should have to qualify by watching atleast 5 days of first class cricket at the ground. or atleast 10 days on TV. (including Twenty-20 and List A One dayers)

Sometimes you have to see a player before you realise they have something. Stats only tell 50% of the story. So we have ended up selecting Mark Davies and not Liam Plunkett.

The England selectors spend time actually watching the palyers, yet we pick on stats, the result, the team we have selected looks wrong.

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