posted Jul 18, 2008

I can understand not picking S.Jones so there is no risk of him and Flintoff breaking down. However, not to pick Hoggard is disgraceful.

They said that they picked Pattison becuasethey wanted someone to pitch the ball up and swing. Hang on a minute!!! DOESN'T HOGGARD PITCH THE BALL UP AND SWING IT

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posted Jul 18, 2008

exactly blind_sided, if thats not a slap in the face i don't know what is.

and now that i know hes almost 30 it makes even less sense.

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posted Jul 18, 2008

seen the 'catch' over and over again now, after cooks terrible dimisal i feel a bit miffed off to say the least. Add that to my feelings about hoggard not being picked and i'm a very unhappy cricket fan today! I feel sorry for pattison because unless he takes a hatful of wickets he is on a hiding to nothing from the press. Selectors hang your heads in shame.
Does anyone know if there is somewhere we can officially protest?

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posted Jul 18, 2008

Give the guy a chance -he's only bowled 3 overs FFS!

Yes he might have only had 11-12 First class matches, but I seem to recall NZ picking Daniel Vettori after one first class match and he hasn't done so badly, has he.

Whilst i think Hoggard and Tremlett both had a case to play, Harmison and Jones certainly do not.

Can anyone remeber the last time Harmison bowled well for England?

Have you seen Jones recently? He's been on the Pukka pie diet I reckon. Wickets in the second division don't mean much when you get to test level

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posted Jul 18, 2008

they should've picked

strauss, cook, vaughan, KP, bell, colly, flintoff, ambrose, broad, anderson, panesar.

Flintoff is no longer an all rounder and i really dont think we need 5 full bowlers, 4 is enough plus colly. as regards Vaughan, its a shame his batting isnt better but his captaincy is worth a few wickets an innings, its that good. shame he can't do both like ponting!

PS- SA are v lucky to be on top- they dropped 4 wickets not 3 and Cooks dismissal was appalling. Bowden is a terrible umpire!

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posted Jul 18, 2008

what the vaughen is rubbish please dont say his captaincy is worth a few wickets capataincy can be done by a lot of people given the chance. this guy is becomming a liabilty when we bat we need runs not bits n bats like he does then says the batting didnt click. no mate you didnt click.!!!!!!!!!1

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posted Jul 19, 2008

Ambrose out and Chris Read in. Best keeper in England, averaged 60 odd in 06 and 50 odd in 07. As for KP as captain - you what?! On what basis would you have him as Captain, he hasn't even Captained his county side. He's better off coming in for a slog at 4

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posted Jul 19, 2008

Any Yorkshire fan delighted that Hoggy is not picked?

I certianly am.

No disrespect to Hoggy but we need him - we are going thru very DARK times and have not won a match LEGALLY for quite some time.

However - i do believe England will regret not picking Hoggy.

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posted Jul 19, 2008

Pattinson has still only bowled three overs, so I'm yet to be convinced that this was a brilliant selection....

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posted Jul 21, 2008

Disgraceful not to have picked hoggard

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