Five young English cricketers to watch in 2012
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Five young English cricketers to watch in 2012
It's that time of the year again- time to f*ck up the prospects of five of England's youngest and finest.
Here goes-
Daniel Bell-Drummond. Top order batsman from Kent who has impressed in the few opportunities he has had, especially in List A cricket. Short guy who likes to play his shots.
Ben Foakes- Wicketkeeper batsman from Essex. Tidy with the gloves, aggressive with the bat.
Matt Dunn- Surrey speedster. Clocked well over 90 mph in a couple of games last season.
Tymal Mills- Left arm Essex quick, and reportedly the real deal. Some say he is already the fastest left armer in English cricket.
James Burke- Young Somerset all rounder. Plays his shots with the bat and nippy with the ball. He's Somerset, so you know as a young player he will get chances, and make a mark.
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Daniel Bell-Drummond. Top order batsman from Kent who has impressed in the few opportunities he has had, especially in List A cricket. Short guy who likes to play his shots.
Ben Foakes- Wicketkeeper batsman from Essex. Tidy with the gloves, aggressive with the bat.
Matt Dunn- Surrey speedster. Clocked well over 90 mph in a couple of games last season.
Tymal Mills- Left arm Essex quick, and reportedly the real deal. Some say he is already the fastest left armer in English cricket.
James Burke- Young Somerset all rounder. Plays his shots with the bat and nippy with the ball. He's Somerset, so you know as a young player he will get chances, and make a mark.
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You can't have Dunn - he was my pick at the start of last season.
Mills sounds promising. In the way Mark Footitt once did. And before him Matt Bulbeck. And before him Paul Hutchinson...
Mills sounds promising. In the way Mark Footitt once did. And before him Matt Bulbeck. And before him Paul Hutchinson...
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Ah yes, the young left armer's curse.
As for Dunn, ok, i'll substitute him for Somerset's Craig Meschede. Saffie turned 'set all rounder in the Kallis tradition. But he's slim.
As for Dunn, ok, i'll substitute him for Somerset's Craig Meschede. Saffie turned 'set all rounder in the Kallis tradition. But he's slim.
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Meschede seems to have all the attributes to be an England great. Born in South Africa, forget the rest...
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Henry wrote:Ah yes, the young left armer's curse.
As for Dunn, ok, i'll substitute him for Somerset's Craig Meschede. Saffie turned 'set all rounder in the Kallis tradition. But he's slim.
Saw him play some T20 stuff last season. Looks a decent bat. Don't know about his bowling. Vague recollection of it being military medium and forgettable. Or almost forgettable.
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Aneesh Kapil - for no reason at all other than I reckon Worcs will play him a bit.
Adam Ball - to dob his way to early wickets in swingy conditions. Then probably sweet FA.
Quinton de Kock - this lad looks pretty good.
Oliver(Oli) Stone - just because of his name.
Marcus Trescothick - this young talent scored six tons over 150 last year, another year like that and England could be knocking.
Adam Ball - to dob his way to early wickets in swingy conditions. Then probably sweet FA.
Quinton de Kock - this lad looks pretty good.
Oliver(Oli) Stone - just because of his name.
Marcus Trescothick - this young talent scored six tons over 150 last year, another year like that and England could be knocking.
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Quinton de Kock? - an upper-class twit from Jozi, via Eton?
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It was just a nipple-twister to anyone who thunk to grunkalunk. I got it in good and quick. Like some booming granny from Bavaria.
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Lever should be here to nominate his five (or three), as he used to.
Then we could have a "Let's Think About Livin'" alternative to the Mass Grave thread.
Here are mine:
Karl BROWN. Hardly a new kid on the cnock-block, but fairly. Could come good, nurtured by a fine county as he is.
Luke PROCTER. (Watch the spelling.) Bit of a dark horse this one. Possibly the new Flintoff, as long as he doesn't try to bowl. Comes from the right town, at least. Making his bid with such a feeble, unsupportive county might just work against him though.
Steven CROFT (Mind the spelling - "Don't call me Steph"). This will conceivably be his year, after a decade or so in the shadows. Blackpool needs a hero. England needs another Lancashire accent. Like it needs a repair in the head.
Gareth CROSS. Quick hands, this stumper. Quickly dismissed too. This will perhaps be his breakthrough year, if he can learn to curb his attacking instincts. Won't displace Prior, but the one-day world might be his lobster.
Simon KERRIGAN. Might be the new Monty. Or even turn out to be an international class slow-left. Scored a couple of thirties back end of last "campaign" - much more of that and he'll be third up for England, batting.
EDIT: COUNTY block. (See Brown, above.)
Then we could have a "Let's Think About Livin'" alternative to the Mass Grave thread.
Here are mine:
Karl BROWN. Hardly a new kid on the cnock-block, but fairly. Could come good, nurtured by a fine county as he is.
Luke PROCTER. (Watch the spelling.) Bit of a dark horse this one. Possibly the new Flintoff, as long as he doesn't try to bowl. Comes from the right town, at least. Making his bid with such a feeble, unsupportive county might just work against him though.
Steven CROFT (Mind the spelling - "Don't call me Steph"). This will conceivably be his year, after a decade or so in the shadows. Blackpool needs a hero. England needs another Lancashire accent. Like it needs a repair in the head.
Gareth CROSS. Quick hands, this stumper. Quickly dismissed too. This will perhaps be his breakthrough year, if he can learn to curb his attacking instincts. Won't displace Prior, but the one-day world might be his lobster.
Simon KERRIGAN. Might be the new Monty. Or even turn out to be an international class slow-left. Scored a couple of thirties back end of last "campaign" - much more of that and he'll be third up for England, batting.
EDIT: COUNTY block. (See Brown, above.)
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They're all old news. And shite. Or at least par-shite.
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Coming from Northants, that's some indictment.
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Besides, you're just jealous. I bet you wish you had Kerrigan on board the Sticklebacks' coach.
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Luckily for myself in the face-saving stakes, I'm not bigging up our no-marks.
We'd take Kerrigan. Our spinning stocks are apparently so low we've had to Kolpak in some 32 year old f*ckweasel with a gash-house wanko record.
We'd take Kerrigan. Our spinning stocks are apparently so low we've had to Kolpak in some 32 year old f*ckweasel with a gash-house wanko record.
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Kolpak? Gash-house record? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
No. Talkin bout some bowler who averages 38 in FC, 30 in List 'A' and 25 in T20. They be pretty sub-standard figures. Hope we've picked him because there's something seen in him.
No. Talkin bout some bowler who averages 38 in FC, 30 in List 'A' and 25 in T20. They be pretty sub-standard figures. Hope we've picked him because there's something seen in him.
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Whatever happened to Brown (J), White and Black?
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I was jesting that the Mont could be a kapok if England let him go. FB often knock the stuffing out of him, though.
So is your new boy a Saff?
So is your new boy a Saff?
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i see that Notts picked up Jason Brown, only to spit him out again after picking up Wotsisname White. Are you a Notts feeder stream?
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PeterCS wrote:i see that Notts picked up Jason Brown, only to spit him out again after picking up Wotsisname White. Are you a Notts feeder stream?
Seems like it. The only one they didn't take was Monty. I seriously was a little surprised that Monty had gone to Sussex and not Notts. Think they had all three at one time (Brown, White and Swann).
Still, that's not my grievance - Swann and White are arrogant wankers and Brown was nearing the end of his career - I'm a bit miffed that we're not producing any worthy of any sort of place, especially as most of the recent ones weren't really given a chance... some utter shit-weasel (Paul Best) we borrowed from Warks, Boje and now by the looks of it Con de Lange have been preferred ahead of the yout.
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Watch out for Zak Khawaja and especially Rob Keogh anyway, if we're doing county-biased tips.
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We might as well.
Only chance I might get to big up my boys.
[No innuendo intended.]
Only chance I might get to big up my boys.
[No innuendo intended.]
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Ah Jason Brown. I remember him. Best post-war English spinner never to play for England? Must be up there along with Keedy....
Both victims of Feltch's 'you must be able to either bat or field, regardless of how good a bowler you are' policy.
Both victims of Feltch's 'you must be able to either bat or field, regardless of how good a bowler you are' policy.
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He was a plucky batsman and wasn't the worst in the field (catching-wise). He went on a couple of tours, but was unlucky to not even play a tour match one of the times.
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Is Tom Brett still floating about with your lot Mange?
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embee wrote:Is Tom Brett still floating about with your lot Mange?
Not really. As I say, we've got some Saffie hack ATM, don't think he's even in our squads anymore - he's playing for Unicorns (some Cornish graveyard for ex-FC players) - so he'll be about in the 40 over shite but not for us. I personally don't think 2 FC matches and 6 List 'A' matches (under 600 balls in total) is enough to fully judge a player's ability but the brains trust obviously think differently.
Still, when you call the triumvirate of gash 'a good seam attack' your judgement can possibly be called into question (especially as they've all been f*cked off with no success and biggish wages since), I'm saying there's some doubt as to whether he's the best man to tell me that Brett's not up to it.
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