Comments on: Ireland now and then and maybe again

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:40:39 +0000

In reply to King Cricket. Honestly, it could be either.

By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:24:27 +0000

In reply to King Cricket. I knew it. I knew you'd be able to do something like that. So what was it - some special owners privilege or just knowing what the right code is?

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:45:30 +0000

In reply to Bert.

Sorry

By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:44:39 +0000

Watching the cricket from the Oval, one thing springs immediately to mind. And that is, the word GREEN spelled out in letters as opposed to being used to colour the actual text, which would have been spectacular but you can’t have that because KC doesn’t like colours or something.

By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:42:38 +0000

In reply to Bert. No. No it doesn't. Arse.

By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:41:19 +0000

Watching the cricket from the Oval, one thing springs immediately to mind. And that is, does KC’s website support HTML colours? This could be important, not least to the intelligibility of this comment. Oh well, here goes…

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:48:51 +0000

In reply to Sam. A poem from a hack.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:06:53 +0000

Moeen Ali’s back.
Jack’s back’s knacked.
No place for Jacks.
Edgbaston packed.
Tests back to back.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:31:26 +0000

In reply to Alex G. Well as mentioned above, resilience to legal challenges clearly isn't a policy requirement.

By: Alex G

Alex G — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:22:33 +0000

I guess it comes down to what is the purpose of the ECB – to generate a strong England test side, or to ensure that test cricket is interesting and competitive?

Think back to the 2000s… Australia, India, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka could all field competitive teams and Pakistan and New Zealand had their moments. Even the West Indies weren’t all bad. There was touch competitive cricket and it was great. Now sadly there’s a clear gulf between Australia, India, England and New Zealand which leads to far too many one sided series.

Could the ECB change the overseas players limits in the County Championship so that counties could play two, but one had to come from a ‘minnow’? Well, they could until the first legal challenge when it would all fall to pieces. And deciding and agreeing who was a minnow or not would be a delicate decision – especially if it meant a world class player like Shakib could be classed as from a minnow.

Stupid idea, but I’m posting this as I’ve already written it.