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Listed below are comments made by aarongeordie between Sunday, 18th January 2009 and Tuesday, 4th August 2009.

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Broad's Ashes spot no longer secure 09:07am on 04 Aug 2009 I think it may be time to give Chris Woakes a chance. Great bowler, now has a big hundred to his name too. (it'll wreck my fantasy team though...)
Vaulting into the unknown 4:08pm on 07 May 2009 Tom, you have a great namesake in Bruce Fordyce who you can take after. Become an ultra-marathon runner!!
Ashton joins TMS team 2:41pm on 28 Apr 2009 Welcome to the team "Ashtray". Any chance of resurrecting the Stump the bearded wonder? (although i can think of a few bad jokes about stump and ashtray, you can try a different title)
Tribute to the Bearded Wonder 3:23pm on 02 Feb 2009 Bill has been busy upstairs in heaven already. He's just changed the result of the forfeited Eng-Pak test back to an England win!!!
Tribute to the Bearded Wonder 2:51pm on 02 Feb 2009 I am very honoured that my question was mentioned on http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7856507.stm but the full answer is even more a marker of what this man was to cricket.
Look it up on http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2008/11/ask_bearders_182.shtml . The amount of attention to detail that Bearders had brought the game alive to listeners worldwide. He is already missed in the blog where so many questions will now go unanswered. You can't just go to Cricinfo Statsguru for this stuff. You need a human mind with a passion for the game and a love for the little details.
RIP Bearders.
Ask Bearders #185 09:32am on 21 Jan 2009 Did anyone else notice that JP Duminy scored 71 without any boundaries?
Ask Bearders #185 2:27pm on 20 Jan 2009 Bill,
The Bowler captain theory has got me thinking... How many wicketkeepers have batted in lower order, 10 or 11 in tests and in LOI's. My theory (and possibly that of the England selectors) is that a good WK has a good eye for the ball, and therefore should be a competent batsman.
Ask Bearders #185 2:20pm on 20 Jan 2009 Reply to Moby.

I agree with your basic theory, nevertheless, I think the fact that there have been so many all-rounder captains would disprove that.
Now consider the fact that (according to Cricinfo) there have only been 25 Wicket keeper captains, and only 13 of them have captained more than 5 tests. There you may have a point, that having to concentrate intensely on every single delivery would disturb one's captaincy.
Ask Bearders #185 5:14pm on 18 Jan 2009 re #94.
Thanks for that PortoIan.
I have been told now, that Collingwoods 54* last Feb against New Zealand, was the HIGHEST no of 6's in an ODI innings not to include a 4. So his two records are not really the same qualification!!
Ask Bearders #185 5:06pm on 18 Jan 2009 re #83 Nick,
Of course, unfortunately you're right about Rice, who captained the great Transvaal 'Mean Machine' side of the 80's. and Sir Richard was not a captain. Truth is, I was too hasty in defending against Moby's assertion that bowlers do not make good captains, and, as in all hasty rushed batsmen who do not keep a cool head, was clean bowled!!
As I stomp off the ground, I still disagree with the notion...

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