Was the Porker under-used in Test cricket?

I say yes.


David Sales: still to make his debut

Robert Key: should be captain, isn't even in the team

Boof Lehmann: Robbed of 50 Tests, just because he's big-boned

Mark Cosgrove: Well?

Ian Blackwell? Must have eaten a selector's baby ...

Ranatunga: Should have run far more for Sri Lanka



The evidence is compelling. I rest my case.

WW Armstrong?

Hasn't been given a game for years. Wasting away, he is.

Sales - yeah

Key - yeah

Boof - HFR yeah

Cosgrove - Sozzie

Blackwell - pie tosser eating competition commitments

Ranatunga - lazy qunt

Milburn - I wish

Burnopfield.

Kallis has definitely filled out, alarmingly. It sometimes looks as if his head is going to pop.

Maybe that's why he's out of form. Needs deflating a bit.





Warney wasn't underused. Except as skipper.

Burnopfield. There's a quality local name.

It is indeed. And the Burnopfield Basher did it proud.

(Until he lost an eye )

PeterCS wrote:It is indeed. And the Burnopfield Basher did it proud.

(Until he lost an eye )

**nods**

Brass Monkey wrote:Milburn - I wish

Ollie Milburn - legend. From Dickinfo:

"The following winter he went to the West Indies with Cowdrey's side, but in 1968-69, omitted from the team to Ceylon and Pakistan, he was able to play once again in Australia. This time he made a royal progress through the states, and at Brisbane he played the most extraordinary innings seen there in Shield matches. On the first day he made 243, and before he was out in the first over after tea, having scored 181 between lunch and tea, he had hit four sixes and 38 fours."

My father told me how he listened to this innings in awe on ABC radio.

skully wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:Milburn - I wish

Ollie Milburn - legend. From Dickinfo:

"The following winter he went to the West Indies with Cowdrey's side, but in 1968-69, omitted from the team to Ceylon and Pakistan, he was able to play once again in Australia. This time he made a royal progress through the states, and at Brisbane he played the most extraordinary innings seen there in Shield matches. On the first day he made 243, and before he was out in the first over after tea, having scored 181 between lunch and tea, he had hit four sixes and 38 fours."

My father told me how he listened to this innings in awe on ABC radio.

HTF do you score 181 on your own in a session?? Oh for TV cameras back then!!

skully wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:Milburn - I wish

Ollie Milburn - legend. From Dickinfo:

"The following winter he went to the West Indies with Cowdrey's side, but in 1968-69, omitted from the team to Ceylon and Pakistan, he was able to play once again in Australia. This time he made a royal progress through the states, and at Brisbane he played the most extraordinary innings seen there in Shield matches. On the first day he made 243, and before he was out in the first over after tea, having scored 181 between lunch and tea, he had hit four sixes and 38 fours."

My father told me how he listened to this innings in awe on ABC radio.

Wow, that was a good one. Yeah, liked a drink or 20. Reckoned he was a bit plastered on his bike on the way home to his flat(which my brother had for a few years). My dad showed me the bend where it happened, was treacherous in daylight, in a car, without inebriation.

holcs wrote:

skully wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:Milburn - I wish

Ollie Milburn - legend. From Dickinfo:

"The following winter he went to the West Indies with Cowdrey's side, but in 1968-69, omitted from the team to Ceylon and Pakistan, he was able to play once again in Australia. This time he made a royal progress through the states, and at Brisbane he played the most extraordinary innings seen there in Shield matches. On the first day he made 243, and before he was out in the first over after tea, having scored 181 between lunch and tea, he had hit four sixes and 38 fours."

My father told me how he listened to this innings in awe on ABC radio.

HTF do you score 181 on your own in a session?? Oh for TV cameras back then!!

It is documented that he told his batting partner Derek Chadwick that he wasn't intending to do any running after lunch and was good to his word. Monstered the Banjos.

skully wrote:

holcs wrote:

skully wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:Milburn - I wish

Ollie Milburn - legend. From Dickinfo:

"The following winter he went to the West Indies with Cowdrey's side, but in 1968-69, omitted from the team to Ceylon and Pakistan, he was able to play once again in Australia. This time he made a royal progress through the states, and at Brisbane he played the most extraordinary innings seen there in Shield matches. On the first day he made 243, and before he was out in the first over after tea, having scored 181 between lunch and tea, he had hit four sixes and 38 fours."

My father told me how he listened to this innings in awe on ABC radio.

HTF do you score 181 on your own in a session?? Oh for TV cameras back then!!

It is documented that he told his batting partner Derek Chadwick that he wasn't intending to do any running after lunch and was good to his word. Monstered the Banjos.

Aye, looks it... FAir play to the man, that is some serious batting! Fark this T20 shoite. I'd rather watch that any day!

holcs wrote:

skully wrote:

holcs wrote:

skully wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:Milburn - I wish

Ollie Milburn - legend. From Dickinfo:

"The following winter he went to the West Indies with Cowdrey's side, but in 1968-69, omitted from the team to Ceylon and Pakistan, he was able to play once again in Australia. This time he made a royal progress through the states, and at Brisbane he played the most extraordinary innings seen there in Shield matches. On the first day he made 243, and before he was out in the first over after tea, having scored 181 between lunch and tea, he had hit four sixes and 38 fours."

My father told me how he listened to this innings in awe on ABC radio.

HTF do you score 181 on your own in a session?? Oh for TV cameras back then!!

It is documented that he told his batting partner Derek Chadwick that he wasn't intending to do any running after lunch and was good to his word. Monstered the Banjos.

Aye, looks it... FAir play to the man, that is some serious batting! Fark this T20 shoite. I'd rather watch that any day!

Just think what damage he would have done in 20/20 - and he could bowl a bit of seam up too.