SPinners, keeps and the idia sub cont tour.

[Cliff-UK]

intrigueing gents... but should jones be our number one wicket keeper over there given that my mum could do a better job behind the stumps. we'd never be able to stump anyone and sachin , Laxman et al wd know it. and make hay. or have you covered thatalready?

[flanflinger]

Originally Posted by Notts Exile

Is Pothas at Hampshire England qualified yet?

At 31 I would hope we could find someone younger....

Prior for me..

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

No we havent covered that but I'll be starting a thread about the whole keeper/bowler thing on the members and guest lounge. Hold all thoughts on it til then. Ta !

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

Missed stumpings, dry tracks etc, doesnt make good reading if your jones and harmison. So what to do about it ? Put it all here folks.

[The Phantom Ram]

Originally Posted by Richie Benauds Love Child

Missed stumpings, dry tracks etc, doesnt make good reading if your jones and harmison. So what to do about it ? Put it all here folks.

RBLC, I have just had a weird deja vu about this post. Seriously have you posted this same sort of thing a few weeks ago (in my deja vu you deleted the post).

[Notts Exile]

Originally Posted by Cliff-UK

intrigueing gents... but should jones be our number one wicket keeper over there given that my mum could do a better job behind the stumps. we'd never be able to stump anyone and sachin , Laxman et al wd know it. and make hay. or have you covered thatalready?

It's a subject that crops up regularly. Geoff Boycott will tell you that Jones drops catches his mother could have caught in her apron - but that would be cheating and I'm sure Jones would keep better if he were allowed to use Geoff's Mum's apron!!

[Notts Exile]

I'll start.

Can we afford the missed stumpings that will occur with GO Jones wearing a pair of gloves behind the stumps doing what is loosely termed "keeping"?

[Cliff-UK]

Originally Posted by Beny

England came into this series with a chip on their shoulder which they seem to have decided is the Aussies fault...

I think Beny is a bit troubled. It's only a game, mate! The english are better at it than the Aussies now. some time it will change around again. And the Aussies will be better at it than us. Cheer up!

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

Originally Posted by The Phantom Ram

RBLC, I have just had a weird deja vu about this post. Seriously have you posted this same sort of thing a few weeks ago (in my deja vu you deleted the post).

I did indeed PR, but on a thread that had little to do with it hence the new thread here. Using only the power of his mind and some new fangled gadetary Ern will merge this and the last page or so of the other thread quicker than winking.

[The Phantom Ram]

At least I am not going mad then.

As far as keepers go I would take Read and Jones as his deputy. Prior is not as good a keeper as Jones from reports I have read. If Read is a proper wicket keeper (all that should matter) why isn't he in the team when his batting has improved so much.

Spinners - Giles, Swann and then Pasenar of Nothants as the third choice.

(ps Notts Exile - I have chosen 2 Notts players there who'd have thought it!)

Edited to remove accidental religious references! That censoring is a bit keen isn't it!!