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Surprising that he’s still at it to be honest. Be the easiest thing for him to just play the various T20 leagues around the world and not care about this test selection business at all.
Would he get into the leagues? My thoroughly uneducated view is that they tend to look for pace and lefties, not line-and-length seam. Could do a nice few years as a Kolpak though.
But there’s 8 different leagues (purely a guess). I’m sure he’d get in somewhere 🙂
Rather more than that. There are pro T20 leagues in Canada. And even in Norway.
And now Scotland/The Netherlands/Ireland as well
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Euro_T20_Slam)
Peter Siddle is the player most likely to do a Tim Murtagh on England. They should pick him. And give him the new ball.
This would work. Also feels at the minute like anything else they might do would also work.
Hello, is this the through the England innings thread? Oh, just got my comment in on time…
Looks like Dial M is kind of handy on that Lord’s slope… anyone here seen him bowl before, and could confirm?
?!?!
(We could’ve seen a collapse coming, mind… all the elements were in place for a Lord’s debacle… but even so, what the hell is going out there?)
Bert’s not at Lord’s today, is he?
I was just thinking this morning, that the wife and kids will be away on Saturday which would be the final day, so I should be able to turn up at Lord’s and pick up a ticket and have an impromptu extra day of test cricket. Hubris, pure hubris.
There’s 366 days over the next 12 months. Which one is not covered?
The 366th one obvs
I love you, cricket. But do you have to live so relentlessly in the real world?
How odd will it be if England win the World Cup and the Ashes, but lose this. Will anyone care if that happens?
Nope. Just like no-one really cared when they lost to Scotland.
Virtually every piece of praise Peter Siddle has ever received is a variant of “He’ll run in all day”
Kind of like how Matthew Hoggard was always a ‘yeoman’.
See also : ‘Do the donkey work’; ‘Put in the hard yards’.