carlwiddows.bsky.social
Cricket tragic, love history, cats and Pink Floyd. Citizen of the world, born and raised in the Netherlands as a British subject, now living and working in the south of Peru.
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Photo like a painting, lovely.
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Well not in tests, but didn't he play an ODI in 1987?
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Fair enough. Guess cricket excels in bad scheduling.
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And of course not too much travel sort of helps. Amazing how the ICC have been rigging tournaments lately.
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Gives me another reason not to like them...
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Ian Botham. I am that old. Never found an particularly attractive personality, but boy what cricket that man could play.
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No and argueing thus is mere gaslighting. If anything, the current situation shows that full membership of Afghanistan was hasty at best. The credo for banning South Africa was "no normal cricket in an abnormal society". The exclusion of 50% of the population is abnormal.
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It must be me, but I never get why everyone gets so hot under the collar over this. It's not like test has always been 5 days. Even as late as the early 1970s the odd 4 day test was played. We've had 3, 4, 5, 6 and timeless tests, why so unflexible now?
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Well they obviously care.
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The complete lack of defensive technique
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Your talent shows in how you capture the essence, sketch or no sketch.
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Your Icelandic prices are a little too much for a Peruvian budget, but it looks a fine shirt.
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That's the danger; no flexibility in selection. This guy can bowl with a Kookaburra too. England might be missing a trick here.
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Yes, I did, but frankly once I have checked my bookmarks for usefulness, I am outtathere!
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It baffles me on the on hand and on the other hand it doesn't. It isn't just some religious zelots that don't care about women and their rights. There are many many more and everywhere.
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Happy new year from Perú
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Which is some achievement as the whole approach was probably born out of lack of options.
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Of course, it needs to change & adapt
Of course, it needs a new audience & focus
Of course, it needs more 💰
Of course, it has been resistant to change
But if only there had been honesty and discussion on the real strategy and direction of travel from the start. Then more might be onboard now
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Well it looks less organised to me, but I think that Rohit Sharma is in such dreadful form that it might help if he did a Mike Denness and drop himself. He appears to be one distracted man.
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Getting close to double digits!
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Ah well, even with the manual this IKEA shit comes diwn ti improvisation.
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They look a tough bunch to me.
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I think we might actually have a chance if we can keep enough seamers fit and not fall into the trap of the tried and trusted. Bethell must stay. Crawley's problems stem more from never ever having learned to score runs on a regular basis, maybe a season of CC could sort that.
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I fear we don't have those batters. The whole bazzball thing makes sense when you thunk about what it came out. No problem making 300+ in 50 overs in ODIs but all out for 200-250 in tests. They were tried, many of them, but failed or semi-failed.
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Well mid tour retirements seldom are a good look, but I remember he a serious underlining injurey issue going on. Not living in England, I was exposed to the fall out.
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Watched during his international career. Had only one problem: wanting to do it all: keeping, opening, captaining, making the tea at the breaks.... Fine, fine batsman.
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I would agree that history is not there for you to like or dislike. But learn from it? If you actually go into it, there is seldom something to learn from it let alone anything being repeated. Even if on the surface it may seem so. It is a joy for the pandantic and I love it.
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Getting all hot and bothered while showing you have no knowledge of the rules while sipping champagne and talking empire.