Ramps to get test call up

Bumble has dropped pretty strong hints that Ramps will be included in the test team to play in SL?

What do you think - just piss and wind from Bumble or not?

tac wrote:Bumble has dropped pretty strong hints that Ramps will be included in the test team to play in SL?

What do you think - just piss and wind from Bumble or not?

If Ramps is in the team I will eat all my hats.

tac wrote:What do you think - just piss and wind from Bumble or not?

I think Leo will make a mess.

It would be a horrible decision if he were included.

I don't know where Bumble gets his information from, though, as the tour doesn't start until December and I wouldn't imagine the squad will be picked until a few weeks after this ODI series is done and everyone's fitness is assessed.

Wouldn't make any sense to commit themselves to Ramprakash at this stage, only for, say, Shah or Bopara to have strong one-day series and prove a far more solid long-term investment.

As I said on a previous thread, if they take Ramprakash and the six centrally contracted batsmen, neither Shah nor Bopara will be in the squad. And given that they've spent the last year integrating them both into the set-up and basically making it clear that they're the next bats in line, it would be quite a U-Turn to ditch them in favour of yet another Ramprakash come-back.

Cook
Vaughan
Bell
Pietersen
Collingwood
Strauss
Shah

If Mark Ramprakash is picked ahead of Owais Shah then I wouldnt be at all surprised if Shah quit there and then.

Is there a link to this story? Anybody?

Personally I'd leave Bell or Strauss out and take both Ramps and Shah.

No link, Leo, but the comments were made by Bumble yesterday.

Leo wrote:Is there a link to this story? Anybody?

Personally I'd leave Bell or Strauss out and take both Ramps and Shah.

But as they've just awarded Bell and Strauss new central contracts, that's not going to happen.

Well, there was media chat about Ramps earlier in the summer. I suppose it's not impossible.

And if they were going to take him I imagine Dave the Grave would already have made the decision, so Bumble might know about it.

I'm pessimistic though.

Having a central contract doesn't mean you have to be picked. It means you have to be paid whether picked or not.

Ramps to get test call up

English cricket in crisis.

Zat wrote:

Ramps to get test call up

English cricket in crisis.

when has pomgolian cricket not been in crisis???

horace wrote:

Zat wrote:

Ramps to get test call up

English cricket in crisis.

when has pomgolian cricket not been in crisis???

I think there was a week in 2005, a few days in 1979, and a minute or two in 1953.

thanx zat

1981

1985

1986/7