Comments on: Why Ollie Pope is completely wrong that this summer’s Ashes could be like 2005 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Sat, 25 Feb 2023 09:02:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/#comment-271803 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 09:02:54 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28207#comment-271803 In reply to Ged Ladd.

It’s an absolute treasure trove of gambling and flaccidity related content.

And to be fair to them, it has helped.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/#comment-271802 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:13:19 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28207#comment-271802 In reply to Ged Ladd.

Congratulations, Bert! You have passed The Special Test.

Your account will now be given access to all of the blocked spam comments and you will be permitted to memorise each and every one of them as well.

It’s an absolute treasure trove of gambling and flaccidity related content.

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By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/#comment-271801 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 06:45:01 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28207#comment-271801 In reply to Ged Ladd.

To be clear, no-one is expected to remember every comment ever published on the site.

That’s not what you said in February 2007 below that article about why you never see red squirrels batting at four. You said, in the eighth comment below that piece, that we all had to remember every comment ever published on this site, even the ones by spammers. It has been the labour of my life.

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By: sam https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/#comment-271786 Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:40:49 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28207#comment-271786 In reply to Howe.

Harry Brook has already struck twice as many sixes in Test cricket as David Gower and Alec Stewart, and is just five shy of Graham Gooch’s career tally.

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By: Howe https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/#comment-271785 Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:04:50 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28207#comment-271785 Harry Brook has the same number of away hundrds in the last 3 months as the entire Australia team has in the last 3 years.

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By: Balladeer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/#comment-271784 Fri, 24 Feb 2023 07:49:55 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28207#comment-271784 Barry Hook!

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By: Sam https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/#comment-271782 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:16:33 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28207#comment-271782 Declare!

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By: Alex G https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/#comment-271781 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:15:48 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28207#comment-271781 We’ll, technically England had James Anderson in 2005. Twelfth man at the Oval if I remember correctly!

But yes, the 2005 Ashes was so much more than just those five fantastic matches. The set up was decades in the making.

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By: Jim https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/#comment-271780 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:35:28 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28207#comment-271780 …and it’s not on ‘normal’ tele. Regardless of how good the cricket it is, it can’t capture the imagination as it did then.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/why-ollie-pope-is-completely-wrong-that-this-summers-ashes-could-be-like-2005/2023/02/23/#comment-271778 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:17:05 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28207#comment-271778 In reply to Edwardian.

Certainly sounds like something we’d publish.

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