Re: Ravi Bopara

by furriner on Mon 28 Jul 2008, 10:41

Gary 111 wrote:
furriner wrote:Michael Vaughan.

He's very good...

Prawn XI 600 for 6 dec.
Vaughan 136, M. P. Vaughan 127, Michael V 125*, Virgil 115

India 223 all out
5-84 M. P. Vaughan, 4-72 Vaughan

India 138 all out
6-26 M. P. Vaughan, 4-60 Vaughan

You convinced me.

by Henry on Mon 28 Jul 2008, 12:38

I'd like to see him have a real run at 3

If Pietersen wants to bat at 3 in the ODI's then he should be allowed to, imo. Your best player needs to face a lot of overs.

by PlanetPakistan on Mon 28 Jul 2008, 14:14

JKLever wrote:I just hope he isn't destined to be one of those 'too good for county cricket but not good enough for international cricket' types...

When I see him playing for England he looks too intense to me and has endless problems running between the wickets.

Not ready for tests yet, i'd like to see him at 3 in an ODI though

As beamer mentioned that he has already played couple of very fine innings when ENG were in serious trouble so it seems that he is fully capable of dealing with the pressure at the international level.

by embee on Mon 28 Jul 2008, 15:26

I've only seen him once ...at the Lilac Hill game in December 2006 ...he was one of the three Poms who had the "look" of a batsman...the other two were A Stewart and A Hollioake ...

by PlanetPakistan on Wed 30 Jul 2008, 16:44

Augustus,

Just checked his stats for this year

867 runs at an average of 67.

by Yorkie Jill on Thu 31 Jul 2008, 11:24

embee wrote:I've only seen him once ...at the Lilac Hill game in December 2006 ...he was one of the three Poms who had the "look" of a batsman...the other two were A Stewart and A Hollioake ...

Obviously. All the best people play against England. Even when they're also English. So people can tell us how good they are, while the selectors laugh at the craziness.

The cliques of 'Team England' have made sure quite a few players never got a go.

by Zat on Thu 31 Jul 2008, 14:55

Henry wrote:
I'd like to see him have a real run at 3

If Pietersen wants to bat at 3 in the ODI's then he should be allowed to, imo. Your best player needs to face a lot of overs.

Well, that'd probably get him 49 + overs oon a regular basis.

by embee on Thu 31 Jul 2008, 16:14

Zat wrote:
Henry wrote:
I'd like to see him have a real run at 3

If Pietersen wants to bat at 3 in the ODI's then he should be allowed to, imo. Your best player needs to face a lot of overs.

Well, that'd probably get him 49 + overs oon a regular basis.

Canadian or Scottish?

by Zat on Thu 31 Jul 2008, 16:16

embee wrote:
Zat wrote:
Henry wrote:
I'd like to see him have a real run at 3

If Pietersen wants to bat at 3 in the ODI's then he should be allowed to, imo. Your best player needs to face a lot of overs.

Well, that'd probably get him 49 + overs oon a regular basis.

Canadian or Scottish?

What do you become after you've been South African and then English?

by embee on Thu 31 Jul 2008, 16:17

A Channel Nein employee for life ...

by embee on Thu 31 Jul 2008, 16:18

kcubeor retep

by PlanetPakistan on Mon 23 Feb 2009, 16:19

test cricket perhaps?

by Zat on Mon 23 Feb 2009, 17:31

pssst! PP, you could've started a new thread if you want. You didn't have to resurrect a six month old thread on Bopara. Unless your 'test cricket perhaps' remark was meant to cryptically follow embee's 'kcubeor retep'

by PlanetPakistan on Tue 24 Feb 2009, 11:56

Zat wrote:pssst! PP, you could've started a new thread if you want. You didn't have to resurrect a six month old thread on Bopara. Unless your 'test cricket perhaps' remark was meant to cryptically follow embee's 'kcubeor retep'

creating a BRAND new thread would have been too much work in this case

by PlanetPakistan on Fri 27 Feb 2009, 08:34

Well done to RB