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Listed below are comments made by Athgar between Tuesday, 15th July 2008 and Thursday, 21st August 2008.

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Confidence and consistency is key for England 10:32am on 21 Aug 2008 Matt Prior played 10 ODI games last year :

229 runs at an average of 22.9 and a strikerate of 75.32

Phil Mustard played the next 10 :

233 runs at an average of 23.3 and a strikerate of 92.46

For me the Colonel should have been persevered with. Although he got out early too often he showed a real ability to move the score along at a rate that Prior seemed unable to do in his stint. As well as the cited strikerate, consider that 5 of Mustard's games were on the low (and slow) scoring Sri Lankan pitches
Alec Stewart's England ratings 8:25pm on 15 Jul 2008 Re : GR Dilley

"If someone is dropped on 1 and goes onto score a double century would you give them a rating based on if the catch had been taken???"

No, because in that circumstance they played for 200 runs and you know their form is good.

When they are wrongfully dismissed in single figures you can't rate them one way or the other because the sample size is too small to tell and they didn't make a mistake
Alec Stewart's England ratings 1:50pm on 15 Jul 2008 Disappointing to see so many people questioning Alec's integrity here. I invite people to cast their mind back to the last test match where he rated both Bell and Collingwood at 2 as well as praising Ambrose for a good game

I think these ratings are pretty fair. Bell and Pietersen obviously stand out as the best performances. There wasn't much to choose between the bowlers, they all tried hard on a worthless pitch but Broad deserves extra credit for a significant contribution with the bat.

I feel for Ambrose too. The wicket-keeper saga seems never-ending. How Peter Moores must wish he an Alec Stewart at his disposal

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