Bell's Ashes

If England win this test that is.

Probability of a KBE.

Knighthood.

Sainthood for definite - St. Ian of Edgbaston

wank st ian?

Don't diss the NLBL.

Can we call him a Great now?

Just shows again too apart from anything else that most batmen have their best records batting at #5. It's the plum position. Certainly Bell's had a stellar series by any measure though.

Red wrote:Just shows again too apart from anything else that most batmen have their best records batting at #5. It's the plum position. Certainly Bell's had a stellar series by any measure though.

Really?

Clearly the belf has been the difference between the two sides. He is the only batsman on either side who has shown any consistancy.

Red wrote:Just shows again too apart from anything else that most batmen have their best records batting at #5. It's the plum position. Certainly Bell's had a stellar series by any measure though.

So, we've been 30/3 most times. So, principally, you're talking shit - wouldn't you say?

That sort of theory only holds water if we'd have been wrecking it.

Brass Monkey wrote:

Red wrote:Just shows again too apart from anything else that most batmen have their best records batting at #5. It's the plum position. Certainly Bell's had a stellar series by any measure though.

So, we've been 30/3 most times. So, principally, you're talking shit - wouldn't you say?

That sort of theory only holds water if we'd have been wrecking it.

I'm still trying to work out how many runs. SRT, Kallis, Lara and Ponting would have got batting at 5.

Congrats to the Belf. His always sound technique is now married with an unmuddled head, and patience to eradicate that ridiculous chip to midwicket.

A masterful series, with possibly another ton to come at The Oval.

taipan wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:

Red wrote:Just shows again too apart from anything else that most batmen have their best records batting at #5. It's the plum position. Certainly Bell's had a stellar series by any measure though.

So, we've been 30/3 most times. So, principally, you're talking shit - wouldn't you say?

That sort of theory only holds water if we'd have been wrecking it.

I'm still trying to work out how many runs. SRT, Kallis, Lara and Ponting would have got batting at 5.

a grand total of about 2500 runs

or less than 5% of their total

of course a lot of those 2500 may have come about due to a night-watchman earlier in the innings

I strongly suspect that taips was being a little sarcastic in view of Red's absurd comment about #5 being the 'plum position', not asking how many they'd actually scored on the rare occasions they had batted there

ie 'imagine how many more runs these great players would have got if they'd batted at number 5'

You don't say!

TO seemed to miss it.

Sarcastic. moi?
You will accuse me of being pretentious next.

unlikely

the point really was that all of them have indeed batted at 5, but not one of them considered it 'plum' enough to bat there for an extended period of time

so yeah, red was talking sh!t

taipan wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:

Red wrote:Just shows again too apart from anything else that most batmen have their best records batting at #5. It's the plum position. Certainly Bell's had a stellar series by any measure though.

So, we've been 30/3 most times. So, principally, you're talking shit - wouldn't you say?

That sort of theory only holds water if we'd have been wrecking it.

I'm still trying to work out how many runs. SRT, Kallis, Lara and Ponting would have got batting at 5.

Not to mention Viv Richards, Don Bradman, Greenidge, Haynes, Hutton, Gooch, Hayden and Uncle Tom Cobbly

Basil wrote:

taipan wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:

Red wrote:Just shows again too apart from anything else that most batmen have their best records batting at #5. It's the plum position. Certainly Bell's had a stellar series by any measure though.

So, we've been 30/3 most times. So, principally, you're talking shit - wouldn't you say?

That sort of theory only holds water if we'd have been wrecking it.

I'm still trying to work out how many runs. SRT, Kallis, Lara and Ponting would have got batting at 5.

Not to mention Viv Richards, Don Bradman, Greenidge, Haynes, Hutton, Gooch, Hayden and Uncle Tom Cobbly

Well I was looking at contemporaries but forgot Dravid.

In conclusion, Red is talking out of her bottom

Basil wrote:In conclusion, Red is talking out of her bottom

Not really. Clarke prefers to bat at 5.

Did you hear how Clarke said he'd bat anywhere in the team that was required, including three?

Brass Monkey wrote:Did you hear how Clarke said he'd bat anywhere in the team that was required, including three?

Funny he should say that after his sides best opening partnership of the series to date.