It’s like standing up in the audience at the ballet, showing everyone your phone and saying ‘Tell you what, fucking quality episode of Gogglebox tonight.’

What you said about the “Australia-recently-failing-to defend-three-hundred-and-lots-despite-allegedly- having- the-best-attack-in-the-world-ever”, Thesmudge, I was reading ‘The Ashes According to Bubmle’ and he mentions that they have the same issues in the mid 2000’s and in 1980’s and earlier so they are somehow they are very consistent at being the best at not being the best.

Yeah, that’s a good suggestion if we can think of a way of making it work.

http://ianlouisharris.com/2016/01/28/how-i-said-f-you-to-the-company-when-they-tried-to-make-me-redundant-by-rohan-candappa-zyen-offices-28-january-2016/

He used the storming of the Moncada Barracks by Cuban rebels as his metaphor. The really scary part of this, for me, is the realisation that this “recent memory” of my friend’s pilot performance of his piece will be five years old next week.

Incidentally, the previous Aussie loss at the Gabba, in 1988, was against a totemically brilliant West Indies side: Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Richie Richardson, Carl Hooper, Viv Richards, Gus Logie, Jeff Dujon, Malcolm Marshall, Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh, Patrick Patterson. Back then, Ambrose and Walsh were the change bowlers. A coincidental twist is that Patrick Patterson broke down about half-an-hour into the match; it really didn’t matter!

One piece of feedback – I am finding that the ‘judgement’ at the end is slightly anticlimactic, which I think is partly due to the decision being made by the same two people who have just discussed the same things.

I understand that it makes things logistically more challenging, but future series, maybe a guest judge (umpire), ideally someone old enough to have watched (or even, once you get celebrity listeners wanting to join in, played in…..) whatever match is being discussed, could make ‘rulings’ as to the relative ridiculousness of the suggestions?

True.

Everyone that says score at 4/over misses the point that keeping bowlers out in the field is worth many runs down the line. If you’re already at a point where you have to score 5 an over, you probably won’t send Pujara out. But to plan an assault on a target over the course of the entire day, he’s your rock.

Another interesting point raised quite a bit on Twitter is how Rahul Dravid’s influence shows (he’s been handling the under-19 and India-A teams for several years now). There are worse things than being under the tutelage of Rahul Dravid in your formative cricket years.

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