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Listed below are comments made by mcrceltic between Friday, 18th July 2008 and Saturday, 19th July 2008.

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Pattinson selection causes a stir 01:49am on 19 Jul 2008 On balance, if I were a selector, I probably would have picked Hoggard. He's been bowling decently and it's his home ground. Simon Jones has ostensibly been bowling well but he's in Division 2, there's a fair difference between the two divisions, he's been picking up a lot of lower order wickets and he's still not fully fit. When he fields he only moves backwards and forwards, not sideways - his knees are that dodgy.

Darren was worth a punt. Just because the average twenty:20 and England supporter hasn't heard of him doesn't mean he doesn't exist. It's disappointing that he got 3 overs and was then dropped - the poster above noted that Stuart Broad got more of a chance to improve his average. And let's not forget this was Patto's test debut. He might just be a bit nervous. At the risk of invoking conspiracy theories, can we note that Michael Vaughan is a team mate of Matthew Hoggard's?
Pattinson selection causes a stir 2:17pm on 18 Jul 2008 Perhaps you should do a bit of research. Not only was the guy was born in the UK, he's always had a UK passport, which is more than you can say for your Three Lions on the Shirt mates and a fair number of other, more recent, England players . However, he does, of course, play for Notts and not one of the "usual suspect" establishment counties, so that's probably the key difference.

Contrary to Graham's rather snide comments, it's quite clear from Darren's reaction to being picked for the 30 man ICC squad and the Test team that he's very proud and delighted to be part of the England set-up.

It's all a bit reminiscent (but with different excuses) of the reaction to Ryan's call up last year. I would have thought in both cases that their selection would be an inspiration to county cricketers everywhere.

And, incidentally, the Victoria Bushrangers website predicted that Darren could be selected for England after he'd played just 2 matches for Notts. The Australians are rather more prescient than many English "expert" commentators.

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