Comments on: Ashes predictions that were very wrong https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:31:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: Bradders https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/#comment-273125 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:31:46 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28910#comment-273125 In reply to King Cricket.

Thank you!

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/#comment-273097 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:24:31 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28910#comment-273097 In reply to Bradders.

We probably aren’t going to be able to carve out the time for a second retirement piece for exactly the reasons you cite for not visiting.

Here’s the previous one though, in case you missed it: https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/moeen-ali-was-a-magnificent-malleable-peg-who-filled-countless-holes-in-the-england-test-team/2021/09/28/

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By: Bradders https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/#comment-273096 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:59:50 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28910#comment-273096 Firstly my apologies, I don’t get time somehow to be as regular a visitor to the kingdom as i used to (kids, work etc) and I am well aware of your majesties tendency to not to accede to requests… but…. Mo has retired and this website has always been a supporter of the great man so wondered if you had a piece in the works?

It was Vithushan Ehantharajah’s excellent piece that brought me back looking the KC take.

Cheers and will endeavour to return more often!

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By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/#comment-273094 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 07:45:51 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28910#comment-273094 In reply to King Cricket.

Rain comes from the sky.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/#comment-273092 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 22:19:01 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28910#comment-273092 In reply to King Cricket.

We inadvertently tugged a forelock while reading it.

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/#comment-273090 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:49:14 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28910#comment-273090 In reply to King Cricket.

Yup, but you’ve got to admit that 2009 rained off match report is a well-posh rained off match report!

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/#comment-273089 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:39:58 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28910#comment-273089 In reply to King Cricket.

Well you say ironically, but that’s pretty much how this whole thing started.

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/#comment-273088 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:35:25 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28910#comment-273088 In reply to King Cricket.

I visited a children’s charity project on a sink estate up there in the late 1990s. It was quite an eye opener, on a sunny day as it happens. Escamillo Escapillo hails from Rochdale. Here is his first KC mention:

https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/middlesex-v-lancashire-pro-40-match-report/2009/09/28/

Ironically, a rained off match at Lord’s.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/#comment-273087 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:28:22 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28910#comment-273087 In reply to King Cricket.

That’s what a big wall of hills will do for you. You think the difference in rainfall is marked, you should meet the people. Different vowels up in those parts and Rs that’ll knock your socks off.

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-predictions-that-were-very-wrong/2023/08/01/#comment-273086 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:07:08 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28910#comment-273086 In reply to King Cricket.

That really is intriguing/interesting. I simply entered the word “Manchester” – why wouldn’tI? – and was served Rochdale (Greater Manchester), not Woodford (Greater Manchester).

I have been to Rochdale and can confirm KC’s assertion that the place is up in the hills. I would not have imagined/ expected the difference between rainfall in Rochdale and rainfall near Manchester Airport, but there it is clearly in the averages.

This additional information makes my experiment a damp squib…which fortunately is now no longer the case with the weather Lord’s.

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